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Better than the original?
No, but not worse either, just different. Crysis Warhead is an interesting take on something I would group with episodic gaming. It's true Warhead doesn't pickup where the original game left, but it does compliment the original in a strange way. In Warhead you play as Psycho, who (if you played the first game) you'll remember was one of 4 other team members that drop onto the island at the beginning. Shortly after the opening of Crysis two of your team members are killed, while you and the remaining two split up to push forward. Warhead begins about halfway through ...

Something about echochrome prevents it from feeling like a game.
What is there to say about echochrome? It's very straight forward and pretty much all the previews and descriptions available are very accurate to what you'll get with the final product. Is it possible for a game to be so straight forward it does not feel rewarding, thus filling such a game with empty challenges? I think the answer is yes. While echochrome is a good game something about it feels empty; and no the simple visuals are not it.

There is a horde of puzzles to solve your way through, and successfully completing one will unlock the next ...

1942: Joint Strike is an exercise in missed opportunity.
For many a high-definition remake of a classic game from childhood is the perfect nostalgia trip. Developers can shore up the stuff less than class lost to memory that plague such revisits, keeping the pristine thoughts from back in the day intact. Sadly a revisit to the 1942 franchise hasn't been quite so fortunate.

Joint Strike is by no means a terrible game, or even mediocre, it's really just lacking something that could have made it a lot better. Quite honestly, elements that limit Joint Strike's potential remain elusive. So much so they haunt most of the experience. Luckily ...

A bittersweet experience that could have been awesome.
PixelJunk Eden is an oxymoron if I ever saw one. Everything about Eden hammers onto you, scribbling across the surface of your eyes and penetrating the depths of your ears to produce an experience both lucid and surreal. So what the hell happened? Eden is clearly a game about exploration, one that eagerly illustrates relaxation. However the entire concept behind Eden is thrown right out the window because a design choice was made to include a timer. A timer in a exploration game (a platformer no less) emphasizing calm. Truth be, Eden is an exercise in controller twisting, teeth grinding, ...