Three Musketeers Secrets: Constance's Mission lets you experience the story of the Three Musketeers through a different viewpoint. You play as Constance, a secret agent to the queen. It is up to you to protect the queen using various disguises and searching for clues regarding the conspiracy against the queen's life.
If video games could laugh, DeadEnd: Cerebral Vortex's laugh would be an evil, under-its-breath laugh; the kind that you might associate with psychopaths and/or the insane. This laugh is directed at you, the player, as you feebly try to better the game's many twisted labyrinths, and your brain becomes more and more battered and bruised.
Interactive entertainment can be many things: a distraction, an escape, a means of relaxation... On rare occasion however, it transcends these commonplace things and becomes something else—magic. When that happens, the experience is akin to getting sucked into a page-turning novel or watching spellbound as a great movie unfolds; you're completely immersed in the experience and are sad when it ends. At the risk of sounding gushy, I'll confidently assert that Otherworld: Spring of Shadows is one of those rare games.
I've been staring at my screen for the better part of an hour, trying to figure out how to start this review. You see, I've just finished playing Paper Monsters, and the game's left me literally speechless. It's just that good. It's like Super Mario Bros. and LittleBigPlanet decided to put aside their differences, have a beautiful baby, and let the little bundle of awesome grow up on my iPhone. Seriously.
Is there really anything else to be said about Minecraft? The indie phenomenon, which started life as a small experimental sandbox exploration title back in 2009, programmed and designed by a single man, has since evolved into one of the best-selling indie games of all time, with millions of players obsessed with it, and dozens of awards under its belt.
The heyday of drive-in theaters is long past us. Though a few still exist here and there, those of us my age will never know the thrill of seeing a triple feature of monster flicks when they were still new. Sure, we have those multi-DVD sets available to us offering 50 movies for $10, but it's just not the same. Luckily, games aren't bound by such rules of the time-space continuum. Futuremark Game Studios' new tower defense game, Unstoppable Gorg, is here to fill a hole in your gaming library you probably didn't know existed.
Taking over where Vacation Quest: The Hawaiian Islands left off, Vacation Quest: Australia presents you with 28 different hidden object scenes to explore in one of the most basic setups in the genre. You'll be asked to simply complete scene after scene, collecting items from lists, until each day on your month-long vacation is complete. There's no story here to speak of and no freedom here to explore (other than being allowed to choose which scene to tackle first). If you're a fan of simplicity (and don't mind a lot of repetition), then this is the game for you.
You ever wonder why hidden object games feature so many ghosts, insane clowns and twisted psychiatrists? Yeah, me too. Witches also seem to be frequent hidden object fodder, as do wealthy heirs who somehow always end up cursed. These types of characters have seemingly perennial appeal so it's no surprise really, that Witches' Legacy: The Charleston Curse features both witches and heirs. What is surprising is that despite the use of these well-worn archetypes, Witches' Legacy weaves a clever and, on occasion, surprising story.