http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf It’s amazing. I agree 100% with this episode of Zero Punctuation. “And that’s Dark Void. It’s down, it’s up, and then down again.” → Read More
This week, Yahtzee takes on the game that is, to me, the best reason to buy a PS3 right now: Demon’s Souls.This innovative title was hailed widely by critics as a return to the old-school “you die now” style of gaming many of us grew up with, but it doesn’t sit quite right with Yahtzee. → Read More
Just in case you find yourself on crunchgear.com and not escapistmagazine.com, here’s Zero Punctuation’s review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Left 4 Dead 2. He’s fairly critical of both, as is his wont. → Read More
Another week, another Zero Punctuation. Not surprisingly, this week has Yahtzee taking on Modern Warfare 2. In a nutshell, he finds the gameplay a mixed bag, co-op fun as hell, and the plot and controversy beyond ridiculous. That sounds about right. → Read More
In an uncharacteristically positive review, Yahtzee dispenses the usual accolades for this well-received title, then notes that accolades aren’t the reason you watch his show. He then puts on his reviewer trousers and gets critical, gripey, and pedantic — just the way we like it. → Read More
http://static.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf I can see why he chose this here style to give voice to his critical bile it’s quick and distinct works embedded or linked but too bad Wolfenstein ain’t worthwhile. → Read More
Yahtzee reviews Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood for his 100th review, then goes on to indulge in a little celebration after the credits. I might check this game out, I’ve been looking for a good western shooter for a while now, and although Yahtzee does tear into it a bit, he does relent towards the end. → Read More
This week, Yahtzee takes a look at a game we’ve actually been looking forward to: Ghostbusters.
I don’t think he liked it. → Read More
In this pleasantly digressive meta-review, Zero Punctuation examines not only the newest Sims game, but the psyche of the player and the sinister commercialism pervading EA’s latest money-printer. His observation that many items you’d think would be standard (pool table, jacuzzi) are not in the game is not surprising: doubtless a “party pack” is forthcoming, right before the next 20 packs of items they’ve already made and could have included. It’s evil in many ways, and I won’t be taking part in it. → Read More
Not surprisingly, Yahtzee was not amused by almost anything at E3. I can understand that; there were a lot of promises made which have yet to be followed through on (probably some never will) and a lot of rehashing of old stuff that was never particularly original to begin with.
It was a fun show and I look forward to a lot of the games we saw demoed, but I have to share his perspective on a lot of this stuff, although I may just give Final Fantasy XIV a try. → Read More
I was prepared to completely blow off inFamous as more hype-fueled garbage, especially after Tycho from Penny Arcade dumped all over it, but Yahtzee has quite another take. It’s not very often you hear him say a game is great, and now I think I’m going to have to find out whether he was for real about liking it, or maybe just on a peyote trip. → Read More
Quick, someone check if Hell has frozen over. This week, Mr. Zero Punctuation talked fast about Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X, a flight combat game for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 that came out last month. He doesn’t hate it! → Read More
Yahtzee, of Zero Punctuation fame, is never wrong. In his crosshairs this week is Resident Evil 5, a delightful romp through T-Virus-ravaged (or whatever virus it is this time) Africa. You have a partner, a woman named Sheva (not to be confused with Andriy Shevchenko), who’s totally useless. → Read More
Yahtzee makes his trademark withering remarks this week with his review of FEAR 2: Project Origin. I got to see the game at E3 last year and it looked solid, but not original. I happened to enjoy FEAR quite a lot and I’m sure I’ll enjoy its sequel, but it’s pretty much a popcorn game. → Read More
Yahtzee hits a home run on this one. Very inspired.
The intermission was particularly entertaining — although I hope those aren’t his boxers. → Read More
Yahtzee sinks his terrible teeth into Far Cry 2, which I was just playing last night. He pretty much has the same impression I do: beautiful, fun to play, but unbelievably repetitive and pretty pointless, plus the AI is terrible. Hearing him praise the graphics of a brown-colored game is an interesting twist, though. → Read More
This is this week‘s episode of Zero Punctuation. He reviews Tomb Raider: Underworld. He doesn’t like it. → Read More
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http://static.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/movies/player/FlowPlayerDark.2.2.4-tm.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CplayList%3A%5B+%7B+%27url%27%3A312%2C%27linkUrl%27%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fvideos%2Fview%2Fzero-punctuation%2F312-Saints-Row-2%27%2C%27linkWindow%27%3A%27_top%27%2C%27name%27%3A%27Saints%2BRow%2B2%27+%7D+%5D%2CsplashImageFile%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fglobal%2Fcastfire%2Fsplash%2F312.jpg%27%2CshowVolumeSlider%3Atrue%2Cpid%3A%27html_test%27%2CinitialScale%3A%27fit%27%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%2CautoBuffering%3Afalse%2CusePlayOverlay%3Afalse%2CautoRewind%3Atrue%2CbufferLength%3A15%2CmenuItems%3A%5Bfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Ctrue%2Ctrue%5D%7D Robocop with more flexible ethics and trousers. Plus a bonus review of Force Unleashed. → Read More
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