Dreamfall: The Longest Journey 3/5 Stars

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is and action, adventure, puzzle game and the sequel to an older game The Longest Journey. You play as Zoe (and two different characters) who is trying to find out what has happened to her missing ex-boyfriend. 

The Good: The overall presentation of this game is good. I played the classic Xbox game on my Xbox 360 and the graphics held up to some of the 360 games I have played. The voice acting and environments were also done well.

The Bad: The controls are clumsy. Combat is terrible (luckily there are only a few fights). Most of the game is spent dozing off while listening to seemingly endless about of dialog and watching loading screens.

The Conclusion: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey might have been a big deal in its day but it just left me wanting to play a mind-less shooter to get the taste out of my mouth. To be honest the only reason I was interested in it is because of the developers new title The Secret World.

I recommend renting this game or picking it up used.

3/5 stars

Rent it at Gamefly 

or

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Game Review: Metro 2033 3.5/5 Stars

It is hard not to compare Metro 2033 to games like Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. The first thing that struck me when I played this game is, "This is what Fallout should have looked like." The atmosphere in this game is perfect. Everything from the narration, the music, the level of detail, the voice acting, everything just sucks you in. 

It is easy to see why this game can pull this level of detail off when Fallout falls a little short when you compare them in terms on scope; Fallout is an epic open world game and Metro 2033 is very linear and takes place almost exclusively in very confined underground tunnels.

My only problems with this game were the combat and the story. Shooting and sneaking are very difficult in parts and require loading and replaying sections of the game over several times. They story was strong but I felt like there were holes that were never explained.

All in all Metro 2033 is definitely worth playing.

3.5/5 Stars

Rent it at Gamefly 

or 

buy it at Amazon