Games
Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Review
by sockmerchant on Oct.04, 2010, under Games

As written for ButtonMasher
Enslaved: Odyssey To The West is a third person action/adventure title set on post apocalyptic earth. While post apocalyptic settings have become all the rage (what pun?), the world Enslaved presents is pretty much the antithesis of what we’ve come to expect. This is no brown and grey wasteland, but rather a world so bright and green that you may be led to believe someone has messed with your saturation settings.
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Blur Review
by sockmerchant on Jun.21, 2010, under Games

As written for Button Masher
Blur is an interesting game. It is a Bizarre (see what I did there) mix of Project Gotham Racing and Mario Kart. That is to say it is an arcade racer that has you driving real cars in real locations while firing some very fantastical weapons at anything else that moves.
Crysis 2
by sockmerchant on Jun.17, 2010, under Games

The first Crysis was a pretty decent game and looked absolutely stunning. Well, it does if you have an incredibly powerful PC. Crysis 2 was announced some time back and brings two things that makes it infinitely more appealing to me. Firstly, Its multiplatform which means I can play it with my 360 pad on 360, as opposed to with my 360 pad on my PC (as I played the first). More importantly though it means I don’t have to turn down pretty much everything just to get it to run at close to 30 fps. Secondly I am led to believe it has a more urban setting. That’s just a personal preference however, I just like cities more than jungles. Jungles have loads of bugs, smoke mosnters and terrible reception, which is why I live in the city. Below you will find some in game footage of Crysis 2. Looks good to me.
Shank Trailer
by sockmerchant on Jun.17, 2010, under Games

Shank is a 2D brawler that should be hitting Xbox Live, PSN and PC in the near future. It looks pretty darn cool to me. 2D side scrollers are really making a comeback thanks to digital download services with some really interesting games being released as a result. Check out Klei entertainment’s Shank.
Portal: The Flash Game
by sockmerchant on Jun.07, 2010, under Flash Games
I’ve been on a bit of a Flash game kick as of late. This is a pretty cool game. As the name would suggest it is a flash game based on Portal. Its is actually a very effective and faithful representation of the game proper. Give it a whirl.
