Multimedia Articles: March 2008

Meet Elliot, one of the few heretofore faceless survivors of the ill-fated Oceanic Flight 815.

The Devil May Cry series takes neither violence nor sex seriously, intending to see both as merely the vehicle to a very basic form of visual stimulation.

You'd think something with a title like My Horse & Me would be a pet sim. Think again.

They hooked up a rhythm game to a real-time RPG in 2D. Does it work?

The comedy routines between Sam and Max run a bit like Calvin & Hobbes humor taken to a freakish extreme.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements is the cheesy '80s flick of the modern role-playing scene.

The real joy of Audiosurf is picking a song, any song, and seeing it literally appear before you as you travel and listen along.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village succeeds because of the way it marries puzzles and adventure gaming while packaging the combination in a unique and aesthetically pleasing way.

game, game, game, and again game isn't so much a game trying to be art as it is a work of art borrowing from games.

It's the same old Bomberman, but now you can give him a poodle skirt.

Mario Party DS benefits from the fact that a single-player game of Mario Party makes more sense on the Nintendo DS than it does on a home console.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is the Yngwie Malmsteen of fighters. Its excess knows no limits.

Turok has some sneaky ways of getting the dinos to do his bidding by luring them with flares to enemy forces, allowing the player to sit back and watch the carnage ensue.