video game review
Video game review: 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' plays out as a successful mission
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" accomplishes its mission on multiple fronts with a compelling and dramatic single-player story campaign. Firstly, the video game (out Oct. 25 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PCs, rated Mature for ages 17-up) lives up to its namesake, "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare," the 2007 game that helped launch the video game franchise towards its stratospheric station as a perennial multibillion-dollar seller. The non-stop action spans the globe and keeps the player guessing where the story is headed. And, the story campaign alone suggests "Call of Duty" will continue the series' successful run – it's been the top-selling game each of the last ten years and topped $1 billion in sales annually for the last 15 years. This one has a special coop mode and a 2-vs.-2
LEGO Ninjago Movie: The Video Game review: Another genuinely enjoyable LEGO title
It won't surprise you to learn that Lego Ninjago Movie: The Video Game is a video game based on the Lego Ninjago Movie. If that does come as something of a revelation, then you might want to turn elsewhere. What may come as something of a shock is that, far from being a quick cash-in, the Lego Ninjago Movie: The Video Game (LNM:TVG from here on for the sake of brevity and sanity) is actually pretty decent, refreshing the Lego game formula and introducing some new concepts. LNM:TVG follows the plot of its namesake film, so much so in fact, that large chunks of cutscenes are simply ripped from the movie itself. It follows a group of trainee ninja's in the city of Ninjago, which is facing an impending threat from the evil Garmadon and his gang of nautical henchmen.