Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Wii Play
Wii
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
After months and months, I still bust out Wii Sports to impress guests, but that pride does not extend to the games nominal sequel Wii Pla...
God of War II
PS2
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
Remember having to plod through Greek mythology back in grade school? You knew it was kinda awesome vengeful gods, gratuitous sex and ple...
Super Paper Mario
Wii
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
Maybe they should have called it Super Meta Mario. After all, few games have ever deconstructed their medium more and I dont mean by mer...
Crackdown
Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
Ask the Scottish creator of Crackdown about Grand Theft Auto and hell probably get pissed (despite having developed the original top-down...
Just Cause
Multi-platform
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
The box art may emulate that famous Che Guevera photo, but cribbing the title of Just Cause from the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama proves th...
Bully
PS2
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
On the heels of their overblown "hot coffee pixel-sex scandal, Grand Theft Auto-makers Rockstar Games tried to keep their boarding school...
Valkrye Profile 2: Silmeria
PS2
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
Technically a prequel, Valkrye Profile 2 is a role-playing game set several hundred years before the two-dimensional (hence the "profile")...
Prey
Xbox 360 / PC
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007
During the mid-90s, when Quake and Duke Nukem ruled the gaming world, a first-person shooter was announced called Prey. A mere 11 years la...