Abstrakt: A group calling themselves the Order of the Russian Star has overthrown the Russian government and hijacked an orbiting space station owned by the United States. DARPA agent Sam Gideon and US forces are called into action after the Order uses the stati...
Abstrakt: Platinum Games has been on a bit of a roll recently, and I was looking forward to their sci-fi shooter Vanquish the moment I laid eyes on it. Everything about the early videos showcasing the ridiculous feats players would be able to pull off with the h...
I'm on my knees, sliding as the plume of small jet engines ripping the air like a curse as I'm thrust along the floor at speed. Bullets fray the air and I narrowly miss the hulking robotic behemoth that threatens to crush my very existence by squeezing...
Abstrakt: It's questionable whether or not the dialogue of Vanquish was translated correctly. Never mind the dubbing, which is one step shy of atrocious. The various references to eBay, vibrators, and Roombas are wholly American in nature, taking away from what ...
Some of the most interesting level design and most dynamic firefights you'll ever experience. The environments are epic and the boost slide is awesome.
A thin story packed to bursting with cliches, a painful lack of what could have been a spectacular coop mode.
Abstrakt: When Mega Man and Dead Rising creator Keiji Inafune said that Japanese games in development today were “awful,” and that the game industry was “five years behind” at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, he was referring to the seeming lack of innovative ideas...
Abstrakt: Platinum Games is a studio to admire. Its titles have never been huge sales successes, but the developer's status as a critical darling and a maker of great games, going right back to its Clover Studios roots, cannot be denied.Platinum Games is a stu...
Abstrakt: Classic, fast-paced action that rarely lets up.On the surface Vanquish looks like just another humdrum space shooter featuring a nameless protagonist that will get lost somewhere between the latest military shooter and party game compilation. However, ...
Abstrakt: Most of Vanquish is completely ridiculous. It's the good kind of the ridiculous though and really I only need to point to one feature that sums it all up. While in cover, hitting the left bumper, Sam Gideon, the dude in the exoskeleton armo...
