Friday, March 29, 2024

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There are spoilers ahead regarding the beginning of the game’s plot. You have been warned. There are few who haven’t heard of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, two pieces of literature that were crafted by the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle of Earth: Shadow of Mordor by Monolith Productions finds its place in the world that Tolkien...
Once a year after school, Jesuit students flock to various stores to pick up the sports game that keeps on giving. Having received the game early, I'm proud to provide a rather premature review for EA's FIFA 15. Running on the improved Ignite game engine, the game looks better than ever. The game engine which was used in the previous...
I tightly grip my crescent-tinted assault rifle as two of my friends and myself enter uninviting and dark catacombs. Lights emit from our weapons as we walk deeper into the abyss of a cavern that is nonhuman in origin, adding to the hostility on the Earth’s moon. The tension and silence cause one of my friends to crack a bad joke through...
Collecting awards left and right, including over 200 Game of the Year awards, Naughty Dog’s juggernaut of a game, The Last of Us, was truly a watershed moment in videogames. The game, which was in development for over four years, even took home the official DICE Award for Game of the Year, making it the official game of 2013. This justifies...
    Truly an Epic Experience                   Few gamers have never heard of Bungie, but if they haven’t, they certainly have heard of the Halo series. So it makes perfect sense that many students at Jesuit may be “sick” on September 9th, since Bungie’s new game, Destiny, will be released on the next gen and last gen systems. The hype behind this game...
"Love of money is the root of all evil." This solemn message greets you when you first open the top-selling game Make It Rain: The Love of Money. Despite this cautionary advice, this app focuses on nothing but money. Released on March 31, the entire premise of the smash hit game is to accumulate impossibly massive amounts of wealth. Swiping up on...
Released in late 2008, Mirror’s Edge shared shelve space with such heavy-hitters as Call of Duty: World at War, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Fallout 3 , causing it to be generally overlooked. Failing to meet low sales expectations, the game by EA developer DICE, the same people who brought you the Battlefield franchise, only moved around 1 million copies...
Flying down the highway at 130 miles per hour, Michael de Santa opens fire on the police squad cars behind him. Taking a quick turn into a dark tunnel at breakneck speeds, he throws the police off his track, returning home to his dysfunctional family, only to drown it out with a stiff glass of scotch and an old...

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