I can remember watching videos in school about the 60’s, where Beatlemania was briefly mentioned. The images of screaming girls chasing around a couple of guys with bad haircuts was pretty hilarious. However I never understood the magnitude of their music til I was older. The every first full song of the legendary British band I had ever listened to was "Let It Be." I remember hating it at first, because it got stuck in my head for days, but eventually it grew on me. For about a year, I dug through my parents music collection and experienced the Beatles for myself. While I was on the bus acting like I was nodding my head to Puff Daddy and the Bad Boy Family, I was zoning out to Hey Jude and pretending that I was the Walrus. This was my first experience with the Beatles.

The Beatles: Rock Band would be my second.

Pretend, for a minute, that you are Batman. While it may at first seem awkward to imagine to wear a pointy mask and long lustrous cape, I assure you, I think about this on a daily basis. So you're Batman, and you're skulking around in an Arkham Asylum torn apart and taken over by The Joker. You zip up to perch on one of the many high-mounted gargoyles (there to scare the sanity into patients, I think), and watch over your prey—dumb, hapless goons. The best (only?) kind.

You wait as long as it takes for one to come strolling right under you on its patrol, then you dive down and grab the schmuck. As if the chokehold wasn't enough, your cold stare sears his soul long enough for him not to notice you've just tied your cord around his foot. You let him go and give the gargoyle a new pendulum. The thug's yelps attract his buddies as you flee to a new vantage point. With his friends directly below him, the pendulum pleads for them to cut him down, but you're the one who grants his wish. An impeccably aimed batarang frees him to meet the ground. Sure was nice of his pals to break his fall.

There was a time when fighting games were a dime a dozen. Now it seems as if some of these same games are hardly worth even that. However, SNK has always remained pretty relevant with their King of Fighters franchise. KOF has an extremely loyal fan base, which will swear KOF is miles ahead of its long time rival, Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. King of Fighters XII has been toted by many as the rebirth on the franchise, but can it live up to the hype?

Let me start with a warning: this probably isn’t the rebirth fans were expecting. KOF gets a nice 2D HD makeover, but graphically it isn’t much to look at. The sprites move very well, however look poor up close. I really did enjoy the different fighting styles of each character, giving each one his or her own style of dominance. With 22 characters, there’s plenty of ass kicking to be dealt out.

Go anywhere…Do anything…Save the city…Or destroy what’s left. Infamous gives PS3 owners something to finally hold over Xbox fans, But is it worth all the hype?

Infamous follows Cole, a simple delivery boy, who ends up holding a bomb that crushes 6 blocks of his beloved Empire City. Cole unlike many people however didn’t die in the explosion. He became superhuman, gaining control over electricity. Cole begins to realize his powers, but event begin that will forever change his life. Cole is pitted against Street Gangs, controlled by others affected by the blast. Behind the gangs are the mysterious First Sons, who Cole has more in common with than he knows.

This game should have been terminated prior to release…

It’s been awhile since we’ve been treated to a good Terminator game and unfortunately Terminator Salvation continues to leave us waiting. Everyone by now presumably knows the history of John Connor and the Terminators, so I won’t bore you to death with going into their backgrounds. In Terminator: Salvation (T:S), you take control of Connor; or at least someone who is named John Connor, as the person is simply a stand-in and is not Christian Bale, nor does he have any resemblance to him at all.

The game’s plot is fairly straightforward when you are actually playing the game. You head off to save some of your comrades that have been captured by Skynet and of course destroy machines. Although this maybe a slight exaggeration, it truly feels as if there is a cut scene every two to three minutes while playing. Some running, some shooting... and then a cut scene. Wash, rinse and repeat. So bad, in fact, that the cut scenes manage to take up half of this already ridiculously short game.

Action games nowadays have become so bland or basic that it is quite sickening. It is either shoot the baddies and save the hot chick, save the world and shoot the baddies or simply, shoot the baddies. Well I was hoping that would change with this game, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. The first CoR: Escape from Butcher Bay was a great achievement and was hailed as a great game which is intriguing considering it is a game based upon a movie character, which usually suck. Alas, we have here Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, the question is will be we yet another great game and addition to the Riddick series? Or a nasty flub that not even Ulaks can save. Continue on to find out…

A stunning disappointment…

I thought back to the original Godfather game and remembered the reason why I never became a ‘Don’. I grew tired of running around taking over a great number of businesses just to achieve that title. The same can be said for Godfather II (GFII). After an introductory level you are given advice on why it is important to take over as many rackets as you can. In GFII, when you or a competing family controls every business in a given racket, a reward is unlocked. Some of the rewards are bullet proof vests, decreased costs for guards, extra ammo and more. If a rival family is sporting the latest in bulletproof-wares, all you have to do is take out a single business in the racket that rewarded them; to do so you either have to take it over or bomb it and they lose those spiffy vests. Just remember that it works against you as well.

Ah how I love games that perform well and also shake my funny bone at the same time. A game that does itself justice as well as rags on itself among other things is one of those rare treats we all get once in awhile and today’s treat is called Tokyo Beat Down. Does the game really measure up with the DS’s capabilities or is it too slapstick for its own good? Read on to find out…

With WWE’s Wrestlemania coming up here soon, I felt it would be a good idea to take a look at their new installment in the games area, WWE Legends of Wrestlemania. The game makes you an active participant in history’s best and most well known wrestling matches. From Andre vs. Hogan to The Rock vs. Stone Cold, it has a large array of matches. The real question is can it be better than SVR09? Legends of Wrestlemania allows you to connect your SVR09 roster to this game allowing you to use your characters from SVR09 in LoW. So let’s see if the game is going to hit its finisher and claim victory or if it is going to get con-chairto’d.

Sports games are a dime a dozen these days and mostly they don’t do anything special or unique to really impress us. We buy them cause we love the sport and want the newest rosters and the such, but with MLB 2K9 they brought a beautiful side of baseball back. MLB 2K9 when compared to PS3’s MLB: The Show has been seen in a less than stellar light. MLB 2K9 with this installation, has really shown what it can do and really taken their game to the next step. 2K9 has a lot to prove in their latest edition of the series and really need to hold up against the foe that MLB: The Show has truly become.