Gamer’s Review: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Following the critical and commercial success of Toy Story and its sequel, Disney produced an 2D animated direct-to-video spin-off film titled, “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins” with Tim Allen reprising his role as the titular character. The story involves Buzz and his pals watch a VHS tape of the titular film based […]

Gamer’s Review: Ape Escape

Inspired by “Super Mario 64,” Sony developed their own version of Nintendo’s groundbreaking game. A team of 25 people worked on “Ape Escape.” A boy named, Spike is transported back to the past along with several apes controlled by a white-haired monkey, named Specter. Upon wearing a helmet, his intelligence significantly skyrockets and makes him […]

Gamer’s Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002)

On May 16, 2002, the exact same day “Attack of the Clones” came out, a trailer for a tie-in video game called, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was revealed at E3 2002. The game was released in October 29 on Nintendo GameCube. Later released on PlayStation 2 fifteen days before Christmas. Four Months Later, it […]

Gamer’s Review: God of War (2005)

Set in Ancient Greece with characters and creatures from Greek Mythology, a warrior named, Kratos who serves the Greek Gods of Olympus embarks on a personal quest to overthrow Ares and take his place as “God of War.” The first installment in the God of War series was released in 2005 (same year Resident Evil […]

Gamer’s Review: Mafia II

After “Mafia” became a critical and commercial success in 2002, video game developer/publisher, 2K commence development on a sequel. It took game developers eight years to create a new game engine as a significant upgrade to the previous installment as well as brainstorming plot elements. Arriving home from World War II, Vito Scarletta working his […]

Shangri-La Frontier: Season 2

Picking up where Season 1 left off, teenage gamer, Sunraku/Rakuro resumes his journey to master an MMO open-world video game, “Shangri-La Frontier” or SLF for short. this time, he joins a multiclan along with fellow players, Pencilgon/Towa, Oikatzo/Kei & Psyger-O/Rei. What’s their goal? To unlock unique scenarios within the game. Sunraku and his pals also […]