Author Archive - Stealth Sniper

Over the past few years a new trend of movies based on comic-book characters, and games to accompany them, has emerged. So when the quartet of super heroes known as the Fantastic Four hit screens this summer, the game was almost inevitable. The game takes you from the space-station malfunction that ...

It�s been a long time coming, but the first of three Advent Rising games is here. Gideon Wyeth is a captain brought up in a family with a long military history. One day he finds himself in the middle of a humanity-altering affair. A ship not of human origin has ...

More than a decade ago Doom came into existence. It wasn't totally innovative in any way, but it merged its elements in a way not seen before to deliver a new gaming experience. A couple installments later its one of if not the best looking games out there and therefore ...

There are no light-sabers or wookies, but similarities between BioWare's Jade Empire and their previous RPG Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic are quite visible. Deep customization abilities, decisions that affect the protagonist's path, and more side quests than you can shake a stick at, never have ancient China ...

I didn't need to read a single sentence about Oddworld Stranger's Wrath to know it was going to be out-of-the-ordinary. There it is right in the name, Oddworld; the people at Oddworld Inhabitants obviously pride themselves on not being mainstream. Stranger's Wrath is a western adventure game; you take control ...

Is controlling one guy too easy for you? Full Spectrum Warrior (FSW) lets you command eight soldiers or more through the hostile and made-up Zekistan, where fleeing Taliban and Iraqi loyalists are mounting. Originally developed to train U.S. infantry, packaged with an online co-op option, and promised realistic combat requiring ...

Humor, guns, and a badge; who wouldn't want to live the life of a character from the Bad Boys movies? Well lucky us, Blitz Games' Bad Boys: Miami Takedown (MTD) lets us play through the bad boys' fast paced, drug-lord filled adventures. This time around a new drug is threatening ...

Sam Fisher returns to the Xbox in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow with a new single player game and a revolutionary online segment. The year is 2006 and a guerilla group, supported by the Indonesian government, overruns a newly established US Embassy in East Timor. Everyone inside is either killed or ...

When Temco released Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball, Ninja Gaiden was in the works. When DoA3 put fighters into the 3-D world, Ninja Gaiden was being made. Even when DoA2 came out, Ninja Gaiden was under development. Four years and three major titles later Temco finally brings us Ninja ...

Awhile back in the winter of ‘01 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance brought the third-person action RPG genre to the PlayStation 2 for the PC-less, Diablo-craving gamers. This year the series makes a second installment on the PlayStation 2 with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (DA2). With new competition around, including ...