I’ll admit: when the announcement of Persona 4 getting a fighting game happened, I flipped out in happiness. One of my favorite RPGs being translated into a fighter? That sounded pretty awesome. Or at least in my head, anyway. I was legitimately excited for this game to make its way to a Western audience.
But then I thought to myself, the last time I ever saw RPG characters inside a fighting game was back in the PlayStation era with Ehrgeiz. Even then, it was a lackluster fighter, featuring Cloud, Tifa and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. Given the track record of RPG characters in fighters, how would Persona 4, a full-length RPG, translate their characters into a fighting game series? READ MORE
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends takes the proud history of Ferrari and places control directly into your hands, as you compete in hundreds of events spread over 36 circuits. While this is a no-brainer for the Ferrari enthusiast, the question remains if the game will overcome this niche appeal and be something for the hardcore racing players. READ MORE
I like Frogger a lot. I played it on the 2600, I played it in arcades, and I played the awesome Windows 95 (Hasbro Interactive was good to me in the mid-’90s) version at my aunt and uncle’s house when my family computer was stuck on Windows 3.1. I never got tired of helping that frog get from point A to point B, and that hasn’t changed here. READ MORE
The newest college football game has arrived, as it does every year. This time around, EA chose to tweak existing systems while adding a new mode, leading to the best release yet, though still just an annual upgrade. READ MORE
The Amazing Spider-Man is equal parts Batman: Arkham Asylum and inFamous, and the combination works. The game story picks up after the film is over; I won’t spoil any story beats for you here, but I also can’t advise you whether the game contains spoilers from the film. What I can tell you is that, as a game, The Amazing Spider-Man is fun, but the inspiration draws are obvious, and I found myself missing those games instead of thinking that Beenox took a good idea and made it great. What really happened is that they jammed two great games together and got a good one. READ MORE
