The Daily Five: Great Games With Zero Replay Value

People will espouse the virtues of their favorite medium, but for me there’s nothing quite like sinking my teeth into a great game. Whether it’s addictive gameplay or an enthralling story, gamers everywhere love discovering something that they just know they’ll want to play over and over again.

Trailers of the Week: September 9-13

Welcome to the first edition of Trailers of the Week, where we scour the internet and hand-pick the very best videos released over the course of — you guessed it — the past week. Sometimes it’ll be a big handful of trailers, and during down periods it might just be one or two. Game companies are unpredictable that way.

Killzone: Mercenary Review

It was not so long ago that people thought there would never be a proper first-person shooter on consoles; the only way to accurately control a FPS was with the mouse and keyboard of a PC. Then came Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64, proving that FPS could be done on a console and done well. Fast forward to the last decade, and a similar debate has erupted. Could handheld consoles ever be able to support a good first person shooter? Many had tried, and all have failed. I’m here to tell you today it can be done. Killzone: Mercenary is the Goldeneye 007 of portable FPS.

The Last of Us Review

It’s no secret that AAA games are in trouble. They’re costly and frequently forgettable, rarely justifying the ballooned cost of developing and marketing them. Why bother paying $60 for a game when you can have just as much fun with a game downloaded from Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network for a fraction of the cost? Then a game like The Last of Us comes along, reminding us that big budget games still have a place, and still capable of delivering experiences that you can’t get with smaller titles.

Dragon’s Crown Review

It seems like this generation has had its fair share of action-based role playing games as well as hack ‘n slash titles, but not since the classic Dungeons & Dragons arcade games have the genres come together in harmony. However, that’s exactly what happened when Vanillaware sat down to develop the PlayStation exclusive title, Dragon’s Crown.