In 1995 we had seen First Person Shooters and action games from Blake Stone to PO’ed, titles that experimented or tried refining the genre. We wouldn’t see any real huge leaps in design until after 1996, however Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels on the 3DO is a game that stands out quite well from the other First Person Action games of the day. Based on Warhammer 40k, SHV is an ambitious game. From commanding troops, to weapon variety, and … Read More
Shantae & The Pirates Curse Review – Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Steam
Shantae is a series of games that has defined WayFoward since the release of Shantae on the Gameboy Color. They worked on many other productions before Shantae but it was their very first original franchise and with amazing animation, charming cast and solid core mechanics, the series only grew as future releases came out in the future. In 2015, after many years of waiting, Pirates Curse finally released on 3DS and Wii U, having a PC and PS4 version not long after. … Read More
Castle Invasion: Throne Out Review – PS Vita, Mobile Devices
Defending a base by shooting objects at the attackers is always fun, with many video games over the years playing on this aspect over the years. Whenever you are a space ship shooting lasers at invaders or a solder using a gun to defeat waves of foes, the genre is always visually interesting. But when you change the way you defend your base from attacks, that is when things get interesting. Castle Invasion: Throne Out is one of those games, where … Read More
Super Mario Maker for 3DS Review
The 2D Platformer is a genre that is iconic to many. It requires you to have fast reflexes and tight control over your character but it needs quality level design to unlock the full potential for gameplay. The 2D Super Mario games have done this for decades, starting with Super Mario Brothers on the Nintendo Entertainment System and continued with games like Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES and Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo’s launch. While 2D Mario came back in … Read More
THE LAST GUARDIAN REVIEW: THE DOG AND THE CAMERA
The Last Guardian has been in development for years, and many fans of Team Ico’s previous works, ICO (PS2, 2001) and Shadow of The Colossus (PS2, 2005), have been anticipating the best game from the studio yet. The goal of the creators is clearly to tell a story through interactivity instead of directly through writing or speech. The goal is to tell the story visually and through the input of the player, an interesting idea that is usually omitted from … Read More
3WIREL Review Guidelines and Systems – Important Update
Hello everyone. Today was a big day for the site, as we published a review on the highly anticipated title Final Fantasy XV and we gave it a score of a 6 out of 10. After discussion within our writing team and founder of the site Motwera, we all agreed the score was fair. However, this is a great excuse to explain how reviews will be working on the site going onwards. But I first want to state one thing; the score … Read More
FINAL FANTASY XV REVIEW: A RESTORATION OF THE FRANCHISE?
Final Fantasy XV has a very interesting history behind it, an it may be one of the most important games Square Enix will release given what this game may or may not do for their biggest franchise and the company as as whole on the Japanese side of its production studios. To explain this I’ll go briefly over a bit of history to make sure the readers understand why this is by.
Root Letter Review – PS Vita & PS4
Visual Novels can offer us a number of adventures, as due to the story-heavy nature of the genre, they can engage the player through narrative hooks and adventure game elements. They can also offer visually impressive experiences that suck you into the world of the game, making you treasure your journey across many playthroughs. The visual novel Root Letter for the PS Vita and PS4 platforms honors the visual novel genre with impressive it’s impressive presentation, enjoyable writing and mystery-novel elements. But … Read More
ACG Game Review: Assassins Creed The Ezio Collection (PS4 & Xbox One)
Assassins Creed isn’t getting a new game this year but it IS getting a collection on PS4 and Xbox One. The Ezio Collection contains three titles in the series (AC II, AC Brotherhood, AC Revelation) in addition to a few movies. But does this remastered collection fare well on next generation hardware? ACG spends sometime with this collection and shares his thoughts in the above review. It is a solid remastered collection and it contains hours of content for those … Read More
Watch_Dogs 2 Review Round Up
The upcoming open world title Watch_Dogs 2 is releasing soon and reviews are coming out about the game. Many appear to be positive, indicating that it is an improvement over the original Watch_Dogs. All the reviews listed and quoted below were found and organized by ekim on NeoGaf. OpenCritic average score: 86 Metacritic Meta-score: 85 ———————————————————————- Polygon: 8/10 Watch Dogs 2 improves on its predecessor but doesn’t go as far as it could have ———————————————————————- Gamereactor: 9/10 These little niggling things don’t significantly detract from … Read More