The Wii needs more good fighting games. There, I said it. Outside of Tatsunoko VS Capcom there are no competent fighters on the damn console. I know that the Wii has this stigma for being the casual gamers’ console and casual gamers don’t normally go for the whole fighting game thing, but dammit, we have [...]

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor does one thing well and one thing only, hectic arcade shooting. No really, that is the only thing it does well. This is a game that fails so completely in every other area, sporting shitty graphics, a horrible story, and truly horrendous voice acting, and yet still manages to be [...]

I wasn’t originally going to review this game. Yes, it can count as action and it is one of the better selling games on the market right now, but in all honesty it just seemed like Super Mario Galaxy 1 all over again. Well, eventually I saw Super Mario Galaxy 2 climb the charts to [...]

When Red Dead Redemption was first announced my first reaction was something along the lines of, “oh great, Grand Theft Auto with cowboys.” Then the unfathomably massive stream of hype started up. Rockstar swore that this was some sort of interactive western movie experience that would outdo any other game in the genre. So admittedly, [...]

Alan Wake is one of those games that we have been waiting for a long time to get our hands on. It was to be a survival horror game that put the emphasis on story before anything else, going so far as to make “story” the main point of symbolism for the game. This made [...]

So what do you guys know about Samoa Joe? No really, we are asking you because we don’t really have any clue who the guy is. Just kidding … apparently he is some sort of awesome pro-wrestler or something? Wow, we sure aren’t increasing our action cred at all are we? Anyway, we aren’t here [...]

Do you guys remember a game called Sonic Unleashed? If you do, then I feel for you because it was pretty bad, however, the reason I bring this up in a Prince of Persia review is because Sonic Unleashed had two different versions you could choose from. There was the Xbox/PS3 version that was much [...]

It’s Prince of Persia day here at 30ninjas! Why? Because between the movie and two completely separate games to review we now have the sands of time coming out of our ass, and it’s very uncomfortable. Our first review is of the PS3/Xbox 360/PC versions of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, simply because it’s [...]

Atlus’s Trauma Team is less of a sequel and more of a rethinking of the beloved Trauma Center series. The focus has been taken off battling parasitic bio-weapons like G.U.I.L.T. or Stigma, and has shifted to giving the player a variety of medicinal fields to play around with. You now get to play as six [...]

Nier is a bit of a conundrum of a game, I must admit. I originally picked up this game because, admittedly, I am a Square-Enix fanboy. They, once again, managed to pull me to their side with Final Fantasy XIII, and foolishly believing that Square-Enix’s day had come again, I picked up Nier without a [...]

When Street Fighter IV came out gamers were excited, but the hype was limited. Sure we were all happy to see our favorite Street Fighter characters step into the ring again, but we had no idea whether the game would be good or not, whether it would work in pseudo 3-D, or whether its advertised [...]

For those of you who haven’t played Monster Hunter games before, the premise is simple. You live in a somewhat ancient world where prehistoric lizard-like beasts run amok and generally make life difficult for the simple townspeople trying to eke out a meager human life. It’s up to you, the few and the proud who take up the title of monster hunter, to protect civilization from these beasts with nothing more than your guts, a side of beef, and one huge-ass sword.

Aaaaaaah, old school beat-em-ups. I loved this shit back in the day, and Final Fight was king. Sure it was nothing more than a button mash fest, but it was a damn fun button mash fest. Guy, Cody, and Hagar’s mustache were some of the most bad-ass characters in video game history. Your only purpose [...]

That sound you hear, is the sound of a classic fighting game franchise dying a horrible horrible death. Samurai Showdown may have not been the most popular fighting game franchise out there, but I still remember dropping quarter after quarter into my local Neo-Geo cabinet just for a chance to get down with some samurai [...]

A lot of current generation gamers became introduced to the Shin Megami Tensei series through the Persona spin-offs, or at very least the PS2 Nocturne iteration. However, most of these gamers forget what Shin Megami Tensei was before it featured high-school students shooting themselves in the head to summon demons. Way back when, back when [...]