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Madden NFL 13
Game Reviews

Madden NFL 13 (Wii U) Review

Gary Smith

I reviewed Madden NFL 13 back in August and scored it a 4/5. It is a superb football game. I'm not going to write out a long review for the Wii U version because it doesn't need it. If you already own Madden NFL 13, then you don't need to purchase it again for the Wii U. Unfortunately, it isn't the definitive version of the game like I was hoping it would be. You can go back and read my previous review of the PS3 version for some things; commentary is the same and Connected Careers is the same…

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Patriots of Treason
Book Reviews

Review: Patriots Of Treason

William McPherson

Author: David Thomas Roberts This was a review copy, provided at no cost to the reviewer. It should be duly noted right out at the forefront of this review that this is definitely a very in your face kind of book as it relates to its political dealings. Unashamedly, it’s a tin foil hat wearing, ‘right wingers’ kind of book mixing elements of current events and the author’s own imaginings. And it does have a political agenda. Everything from the content, the timing of the release, and the…

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Game Reviews

Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation Review

Gary Smith3 Comments

Today, we'll be discussing Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, the series first venture onto the Playstation Vita. This is also our first review of a Playstation Vita game here at Web of Paine, so hopefully you enjoy this review. With the Vita being the hi-def sequel to the PSP system, AC3 Liberation is one of the games that I was looking at to see the quality of the Vita's hi-def capabilities. Having experienced a mixed bag with some prior games, I was really looking forward to seeing some quality…

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Medal of Honor Warfighter
Game Reviews

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Review

Gary Smith

Today we will be taking a look at Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the follow-up to the 2010 title Medal of Honor and the continuation of the modern day reboot of the series. While I am a fan of shooters, I, to this point, have not had a chance to play any of the reboot Medal of Honor. Obviously I did spend some time with Warfighter over the past week, otherwise why would I be writing about it, right? Have to say it was a pretty solid experience. How solid, well let's get to it and find out. Quick…

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Tokleins World
Book Reviews

Tolkien’s World – A Guide to the Peoples and Places of Middle-earth Review

Gary Smith

Tolkien's World is the "unofficial and unauthorized guide to Tolkien's Middle-earth." To start off with, this is a beautiful hardcover book. It's big too, and I don't mean in terms of page count. It's 11.8x10.4x0.5 inches. It isn't just pictures and paintings though, it's really more of a brief encyclopedia of all things "Middle-earth" related. It's broken up into three sections: "The Free Peoples," "The Enemy," and "Legends and Lore of Middle-earth." Gareth Hanrahan does a good job of breaking…

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Beatles Stories
Entertainment

Beatles Stories: A Fab Four Fan’s Ultimate Road Trip Review

Gary Smith

Synopsis: Songwriter Seth Swirsky grew up idolizing the Beatles. He set out, video camera in hand, to talk to people who had crossed paths with his musical heroes. From Sir Ben Kingsley to Sir George Martin, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson to astronomer Brian Skiff, Swirsky filmed hundreds of personal recollections from people who knew them well to those who just had an unforgettable encounter. Longtime Beatles friend and personal assistant Tony Bramwell calls Beatles Stores, “A Magical Mystery Tour…

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Hell Yeah Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
Game Reviews

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit Review

Gary Smith

Hell Yeah! takes players on bizarre trip through Hell as the Prince of Hell, a rabbit named Ash. The evil rabbit was minding his own business taking a bath with rubber duckies when the paparazzi show up and snap some pictures. The naked bath time photos are posted on the Hellternet where they’ve been viewed by a whopping 100 creatures. Ash is of course completely embarrassed by this and sets out to do the only thing a ruler of Hell can really do, kill everyone who has viewed the pictures. Yeah…

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The Expendables 2
Entertainment

The Expendables 2 Review

William McPherson1 Comment

About this time a year ago I penned my review of the original Expendables movie. I am tempted to simply copy and paste it here while just adding a 'two' to the end of the title and maybe make some other slight changes and be done with it, but on second thought this movie does deserve a slightly more thorough job than the likes of that. It's not that the story, thin and paperlike as ever here is any better than that of the original movie, in fact you could argue the plot here is even simpler than…

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Darksiders 2
Game Reviews

Darksiders II Review

Gary Smith11 Comments

This review is for the PC version of Darksiders II, and as such I'm going to spend the first portion of this review talking about the problems I've had with the PC version. Darksiders II was very obviously designed with a controller in mind; it's not at all keyboard and mouse friendly. I don't do a ton of PC gaming, especially new games, so I don't have a gamepad or a 360 controller to plug in, and thus I've experienced a number of frustrating things while playing Darksiders II. My biggest…

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Dyad
Game Reviews

Dyad Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Dyad is really a unique offering that's hard to accurately describe in writing; it's truly a game that needs to be played as reading about it doesn't really do it justice. At it's core, it's a racing game of sorts, but it's unlike any other racing game out there (and really, it almost feels cheap to call it a racing game). I don't even know what you're controlling in the game, so being a huge Stargate fan I'll just consider it a multicolored ascended being (a light/energy being) traveling…

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Future Soldier
Game Reviews

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Hello all and welcome once again to The Backlog. Today we'll be taking a look at the latest Tom Clancy offering from Ubisoft, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. I have not played a Tom Clancy game for several years. The last one I played was HAWX, and Advanced Warfighter before that. Both of those games were fun to play and fairly easy to pick up, and Future Soldier is no different. The fifth installment of the Ghost Recon series picks up in the middle of a Central American country riding…

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Predator Nation
Book Reviews

Predator Nation Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

You may know Charles Ferguson as the director and writer of the 2010 Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job, which examined the financial crisis from 2007-2010.  If you watched that documentary and liked it and agreed with it, then this book is for you. Predator Nation is essentially a book follow-up/extension to Inside Job. It's also a book the left will love and eat up as gospel, so if you're a liberal then you should buy this book as you'll definitely enjoy it. There are a few ways I…

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Sniper Elite v2
Game Reviews

Sniper Elite V2 Review

Eric W.6 Comments

This is the anti Call of Duty/Battlefield game. It's also technically a third person shooter except for when sniping, which is what the bulk of the gameplay involves. If you're itching for something completely different, and arguably the opposite of those types of first person shooters, then I can wholeheartedly recommend Sniper Elite V2 on the platform of your choice. If you're only interested in first person shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield and other run and gun types of games then…

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Total War Rome
Game Reviews

Total War: Rome Review

Gary Smith

Hello all and welcome back to The Backlog. It's been quite a while since I've written one of these, so bear with me while I attempt to shake off the rust of the past few months. As my welcome back gift to you, I present Rome: Total War. Rome: Total War is a real-time, turn-based strategy game in which you can select from a few different Roman factions and enter a campaign to eventually, hopefully, take control of all of Rome. You can choose from the Julii, Bruti, or Scipii. There may be one or…

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Donkey Kong Jr
Game Reviews

Donkey Kong Jr. Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

This is the NES version of Donkey Kong Jr. played on the Wii Virtual Console, it has a few differences between the arcade version. Donkey Kong Jr. is of course the sequel to the hugely popular (in the 80s) Donkey Kong arcade game. The roles are reversed this time though. You don't play as Mario trying to rescue the Princess from Donkey Kong. Instead, you play as Donkey Kong Jr. trying to rescue pops from Mario. Whereas the original Donkey Kong had three stages (the VC NES release, not the arcade…

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FEAR
Game Reviews

F.E.A.R. Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

“Make them REMEMBER WHAT FEAR TASTES LIKE.” - Freddy vs. Jason Hello all and welcome back to The Backlog. It's been a while, but my shitty internet is working...well, barely, but it's scraping me by for the time being. With that in mind, let's back to business. F.E.A.R. starts out as a first person shooter, featuring you as “Point Man” of an elite, secret military group that specializes in dealing with situations that are, how might we say, beyond traditional realms of reality. Your team has…

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4 Elements HD
Game Reviews

4 Elements HD Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

4 Elements HD is a matching game, but instead of swapping two adjoining pieces to try and put three of the same color together, 4 Elements HD requires you to look carefully and use the joysticks (or Move) to chain three or more same colored gems together. Each level as some type of liquid energy, and you’ll have to destroy the tiles by creating chains to create a path for the energy to flow to the alter at the end of each level. That sounds easy enough, but if you’ve ever played a matching game…

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Eufloria
Game Reviews

Eufloria Review

Gary Smith5 Comments

If you’re a PS3 gamer who has been longing for a satisfying, addictive, and simple real time strategy game to sink many hours into then you are in luck; Eufloria is available as of today on Playstation Network, and it’s the RTS game that you’ve been looking for. Strategy games haven’t translated all that well to consoles, mostly due to poor controls stemming from the fact that the games are traditionally PC games that benefit from having a keyboard. Console strategy ports tend to feature…

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From Dust
Game Reviews

From Dust Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

In From Dust you are cast as the formless entity known as The Breath, and your sole goal is to protect a tribe of people and help them build new villages during their journey to find the Ancients. You are basically the god of these tribal folks, although your power as god is quite limited at times. With that limited power, you’ll also face palm as you accidentally set a village on fire (or flood it trying to put the fire out). As The Breath, you can manipulate the elements (water, lava, sand…

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Elevator Action Deluxe
Game Reviews

Elevator Action Deluxe Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

In 1983, game developer Taito released Elevator Action in the arcades, and it was a popular arcade game that was later ported to home consoles as an NES title in 1985. That port is available on the Wii’s Virtual Console. But now, some 28 years after the release of the original Elevator Action in arcades, Square Enix has delivered a remake titled Elevator Action Deluxe available now exclusively on the Playstation Network. This remake hasn’t strayed too far from the original; one look at the game…

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