Only Shadows Left Behind

I always found Metal Gear Solid 4 to be not a brilliant game, but a fascinating one. A mad ideologue glutted with…

A game based on existing media has three options. It can strive to be faithful to the original work, privileging…

Last week, while I was checking out Splinter Cell: Blacklist, I had a long, interesting talk with the game's…

They say you're not supposed to judge something by its cover, but screw it: 007 Legends' awful cover gives the game…

Forget the hero of Albion. Theresa—a prophetic seer who has appeared in all the previous Fable games—is not only…

There's just something special about games that make you sneak. The push, the pull, the contemplative pause... and…

Most people might take their stealth tips from Solid Snake or Sam Fisher. Me, I'm more in tune with, uh, the…

A society leaves behind a pretty decent map of its psychology in the culture it creates. For example, the 1950s…

In the world of The Last of Us, where power grids are down and vine-covered, broken buildings are all that remind…

Most games concerned with keeping their heroes undetected create a reliance on a few familiar mechanics. Sticking…