Video game reviews from nJoystic

The year is 2007 . . . and it is dumb. Although it took me a little too long to get around to picking it up, it should be said that Far Cry 3 turned out to be one of the best games I played from 2012. Whether it was [...]

It’s classic brawling . . . and not much else. As developers continue to explore the mobile and digital space, spin-offs that barely resemble the franchises in their titles become increasingly common. At their best, these games offer a refreshing take on familiar game concepts while enriching an existing or [...]

Buckle your pants, pull up your socks, and check out The Behemoth’s latest Xbox Live Arcade title We’ve all been there before: Stranded on an island prison. Forced to perform deadly acts in order to entertain our feline captors while our best friend in the world watches over the entire [...]

Are you a Chick-Can or a Chick-can’t? Every now and then a game like Guacamelee! comes along to remind us of the simple pleasures in life. I’m talking about the satisfaction that comes from platforming to every corner of a large world to see all that it has to offer. [...]

Reach for the Sky. I’ll admit it. My enthusiasm for Bioshock Infinite was just too unrealistic. Despite all the news of delays, staff departures, or creative changes that was coming out during its development, I absolutely could not wait to play the final game. I blinded myself from the sad [...]

Yeah, you keep dancing, and I’ll just keep getting angrier. While I have been known to enjoy a good platformer, auto-runner games have never really done much for me. Of course, it’s kind of pompous to say an entire subgenre of games is just too casual for somebody as “hardcore/gamercore/gamehard/corecore” [...]

A suit, a bow, and not much else. Visually, Crysis 3 is impressive. In a post-apocalyptic New York City Liberty Dome, crumbling skyscrapers open up to lush fields of vegetation and wildlife. Simply put, the game is beautiful. But to be great, games need to be more than beautiful. That’s [...]

In the with old, in with the new. Throughtout DmC’s development, I’ve been in pretty much every camp one could be in. At first, I thought it was going to suck, then I wanted to “wait and see”, and then it became one of my most anticipated games. The only [...]

Matchmaking and lag issues bring the fast-paced world of MOBAs to a grinding halt With Guardians of Middle-earth, Monolith set out to bring the highly competitive gameplay of the PC MOBA genre to the console crowd. Licensing the epic Lord of the Rings universe, Guardians is more than a simple [...]

Announcing a point-and-click style adventure game based on The Walking Dead franchise raised a few eyebrows, but after Telltale released the first episode, it was quickly evident that the game could be something special. With the fifth and final episode released last week, The Walking Dead has earned early Game [...]