Wayback Flashback: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Review

In honor of the announcement of Uncharted 3 this morning, here's my thoughts on the first installment of the PlayStation-exclusive franchise:

My first home entertainment gaming console was the Sony PlayStation. The first major game that had me, and my sister, and any friends who were over, transfixed to the ol' boob tube was Crash Bandicoot: Warped. My sister and I would play for hours, trying to one-up one anothers' progress, fighting over who had first crack at the controller as soon as we got home from school. Aside from Mario and Sonic on our friends' old NES and Genesis consoles, Crash was the first console mascot that we became invested in, thanks to the awesome developers at Naughty Dog.

 PlayStation's first mascot... not quite an Italian plumber, is he?

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Review

Do you like Uncharted?

How about The Matrix?

What about ancient Chinese poetry? Does that float your boat?

If you've checked at least two of those three boxes, then Ninja Theory's first non-exclusive IP Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is the game for you! Written by the mind behind 28 Days Later and directed by and starring the man behind Gollum and King Kong (literally; not Peter Jackson, unfortunately), Enslaved is a fun, beautiful, challenging game -- that unfortunately just doesn't satisfy completely.

Resisting "Monkey's hanging around" joke