Archive for the ‘Game Reviews’ Category

Green Lantern Rise of the Manhunters

This is a great co-op game for youth and a movie tie-in … with one exception, the language.In general, there appear to be four types of super-hero (with/without movie tie-ins) games: Single-Player greats – like Rocksteady’s Batman:Arkham Asylum and Arkham City titles Single-Player mediocres – too many to count, but almost every movie gets one [...]

January 21, 2012 · Jason · No Comments
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MegaMind (is not an) Ultimate Showdown

Earlier this month, I reviewed what I think is one of the very best kid-friendly co-op games, and certainly one of the best movie-based titles (not including the Lego series) — Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (CCM). MegaMind: Ultimate Showdown reminds me of CCM in many ways because for everything CMM did right, MegaMind [...]

December 27, 2011 · Jason · No Comments
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (CCM) is officially one of my most favorite co-op games to play with younger kids — target age 6-9.  It has several of my requirements for a family-friendly co-op daddy and kid game: It is based-on but not a scene-by-scene repetition of a movie (or TV show) – in [...]

December 7, 2011 · Jason · No Comments
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Kinectimals for Windows Phone

This month, Kinectimals for Windows Phone 7 was released — with more great reasons to visit the island of Lemuria. Depending on how you count it, this is the third offering in the Kinectimals line, including: The original Xbox 360/Kinect game (K/360) — see original review Its recent add-on for Bears (K/bears) — see last [...]

November 12, 2011 · Jason · No Comments
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Kinectimals – now with Bears !

If you haven’t gotten Kinectimals yet — go get it because you now have even more reasons to.  It has Bears! Check out my review of the original Kinectimals. Kinectimals is back! Nearly a year since the original release as a launch title for Kinect, the folks at Microsoft Game Studios and Frontier have released [...]

October 15, 2011 · Jason · No Comments
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Kinectimals is the best launch title for Kinect, period

In my opinion, the range of motion-enabled Kinect titles fall into five distinct categories: Fitness — these are great and there are several to choose from between initial releases and upcoming titles. Most do body sensing, provide a trainer silhouette to take you through rigorous training programs, etc. Dance — not really my speed, but [...]

November 15, 2010 · Jason · No Comments
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Batman: Arkham Asylum

Most recommendations on XboxDad are for the kids – but this one is for Dad. Sure, super heroes start out for kids, but this game is truly about the Dark Knight.  It takes you inside the dark world of Arkham Asylum, where all of Gotham’s worst are locked up.  Of course, Joker has taken over, [...]

February 26, 2010 · Jason · No Comments
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Cars : Race-O-Rama

If you liked the first Cars game from Disney and THQ, then you ought to really, really like this one.  If you didn’t (but did like the movie), then you should still probably give this game a shot. Cars Race O Rama took the better parts of the original game and made them so much [...]

January 8, 2010 · Jason · No Comments
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A Kingdom for Keflings on Xbox Live Arcade (and on-sale thru Jan.10)

This is a really clever game that has captured my family’s heart.  In fact, I think that it is the only game that I have ever purchased twice.  We have two Xbox 360’s and it allows my kids and I to collaborate.  Kingdom for Keflings was one of the first Xbox Live games to use [...]

January 5, 2010 · Jason · No Comments
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LEGO Rock Band

A big hat’s off and ‘thank you’ to the folks at LEGO and MTV/Harmonix for a great game in LEGO: Rock Band For those that have read my blog before, you know that I am a fan of all of the Lego titles, including Batman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Battles.  And I have been [...]

January 4, 2010 · Jason · 2 Comments
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