Tag: Activision
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Capturing the Light – Destiny 2 Impressions
*Destiny 2, like its predecessor, is meant to be taken as an MMORPG experience. This also means expansion packs in the near future as well as continual content updates, making it difficult to give a full review. Therefore, Last Token Gaming’s review will be an impressions piece instead. Release Date: September 6, 2017 (Playstation 4…
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Interconnected Mediocrity: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Review
Release Date: November 5, 2015 Rated: M for Mature Publisher: Activision Developer: Treyarch Platform: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 ( Multiplayer Only), Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC Please note: This game was played on the Xbox One, I have not played the Xbox 360 version Call of Duty has a long history of being a stalwart…
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Rhythm Game Retrospective: A Look Back on Guitar Hero and Rock Band from Michael Ros
By Michael Ros Remember when rhythm games ruled the world? We had Dance Dance Revolution, a slew of karaoke titles, Audiosurf (which Jake Rushing honored as Last Token Gaming’s first Obscure Game Review), and, of course, who could forget the Guitar Hero vs Rock Band debate? You know, the OTHER Activision vs EA Fanboy War.…
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A Look Back at the Longest Virtual Tour of Duty – Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty‘s initial success on PC back in 2003 helped put Infinity Ward on the map in the eyes of PC gamers, and the success of its expansion and the then-current generation console spin-offs (PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox), United Offensive and Finest Hour respectively helped to keep the CoD name in the periphery of…
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A Look Back at the Longest Virtual Tour of Duty – Call of Duty
Part I: Call of Duty – Answering the Call You’ll Always Remember Your First… On October 29, 2003 a small company under the name of Infinity Ward would release their very first game on PC. This first person shooter title, published by Activision, would not be the first World War II to arrive onto market.…
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Call of Duty: A Look Back at the Longest Virtual Tour of Duty
Call of Duty… In this day and age it’s a phrase synonymous with gaming. But what that means exactly will vary from person to person. To some gamers it’s a beloved franchise. To other gamers it’s a cancer to the gaming industry. Meanwhile those who do not play video games will have likely heard about…
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Destiny Review – A Calling Left Unfulfilled –
By Patrick-James Reyes Destiny Developer: Bungie Publisher: Activision Released: 9-9-14 Platforms: Playstation 3/ Playstation 4/ Xbox 360/ Xbox One MSRP: $59.99 It has been four years since Bungie’s last game. Now at last we arrive at a new frontier of their design in the form of Destiny, but what is it exactly? According to those…
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Deep Space of Expectations – Destiny Initial Impressions
Publisher: Activision Developer: Activision Platforms: Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One Release Date: September 9, 2014 Genre: MMORPG, FPS Rated: T for Teen MSRP: $59.99 Marketing is a dual-edged sword for any game – it either keeps a game from fading into the mass sea of other similar titles, or burns it asunder in…
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Until Tomorrow: Destiny post-beta Impressions
By Terry Randolph and Domenic Dalpez Last week, Ryan and I spoke of our impressions on the highly-touted Destiny beta that you can read here. The beta just ended on Sunday after opening up a mission on the moon for a few hours, and a special event that lead to items you keep for the…
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Borderlands: Halo – Destiny Beta Impressions
by Terry Randolph and Ryan Goddard Bungie will always have a problem whenever it releases a game; Halo. Every game the studio makes will always draw comparisons to it; from the way guns handle to art style and everything in-between. With Destiny, Bungie is hoping to create something “revolutionary” and “nothing we’ve seen before” (aka…