Archive for August, 2009

Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo Impressions

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 […]

More »

100 Ways To Get Owned in Red Faction: Guerrilla

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

More »

Red Faction Guerrilla: Demons of the Badlands Impressions

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 […]

More »

Wet Demo Impressions

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 […]

More »

Tom Clancy’s HAWX (Xbox 360) Review

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 […]

More »

Section 8 (Xbox 360) Demo Impressions

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 […]

More »

Wacky Karts Impressions

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 […]

More »

Moving to WordPress

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.

More »

Lost Planted 2 Demo Impressions

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 […]

More »

Overlord Dark Legend (Nintendo Wii) Review

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 […]

More »