If you’ve been reading my blog for more than a couple weeks you probably know that I love tower defense games.  With Defense Grid: The Awakening released on Xbox Live Arcade next week I was reading up on it on Hidden Path’s website when I found that they have a PC demo available. It is […]

I came across these videos in the Red Faction community forums and they are hilarious. Part 1: Part 2:

If you recall my Red Faction Guerrilla review you will remember that I love this game.  So, when they announced the Demons of the Badlands DLC I knew I would be getting it.  The Demons of the Badlands add-on gives you the back story Samanya from the game’s main campaign. I really enjoyed playing as […]

A demo for Wet hit Xbox Live Marketplace yesterday. It has not really been on my radar but I saw people describing it as part John Woo and part Quentin Tarantino. That got my attention pretty quickly. After playing through it multiple times I agree that Wet really does feel like you’re in a Tarantino […]

I rented Tom Clancy’s HAWX on Thursday afternoon and finished the last mission Sunday afternoon.  All 20 missions took me around 9 hours and that was with replaying a couple of the missions over and over.  I’m really not that great at flying games but I liked that HAWX has options to help assist inexperienced […]

I’ve been interested in Section 8 since I first saw this trailer during E3. The game play looks a little like Tribes 2 which I loved in college, but with updated graphics. I played 6 or 7 games this afternoon and had a good time with it.  The demo is multiplayer focused and they give […]

I was browsing the new Xbox Live Indie Games yesterday and noticed a Wacky Karts. From the screenshots I could tell right away it is a clone of the SNES era Mario Karts. Since arcade and kart racing games are the only ones I ever can play successfully I was pretty pumped.  So, I downloaded […]

As you can see I’m part way through moving from Blogger to WordPress.  Things are progressing pretty well but I’ve still got more stuff to do.  Over the next few days I should get everything finished…hopefully. The main URL for my Rants and Reviews is now http://www.andymerrill.com/blog/ so update your bookmarks and RSS readers.

I took an early lunch to play the Lost Plant 2 demo that released today on the Xbox 360.The demo supports both playing solo as well as four player co-op over Xbox Live. You can setup the co-op room with 0 to 3 private slots for your friends and then fill in the remainder of […]

My plan was to play Overlord II but apparently I was not pay attention and I rented Overlord Dark Legend for the Nintendo Wii instead. Fortunately a couple people pointed out that it has a different story line and I decided to check it out. I’m assuming that Overlord Dark Legend is the version for […]