Archive for March, 2010

19 Mar

Game Day: ‘Heavy Rain’ earns its ‘mature’ rating

In most games, the story serves the game. play. In “Heavy Rain,” a fantastic-looking serial-killer yarn with a brooding noir flavor, it’s the other way around. The player guides four characters through the game’s many chapters, and any of them – as well as various secondary characters – can die, leaving the story to continue without them.



Army of Two: The 40th Day



FBI agent Norman Jayden searches for clues with his advanced evidence- gathering tools in “Heavy Rain.”

05 Mar

Game Day: Hot ‘Inferno’ inspired by Dante’s classic workGame Picks:

Loosely based on the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” “Dante’s Inferno” uses that classic work’s descriptions of hell and its inhabitants as the basis for a solid action game in the same vein as “God of War.”



In “Dante’s Inferno,” the hero wields symbols of both death and salvation.