CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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Video Game Review: Unrefined RPG ‘Two Worlds II’ Feels Too Familiar
Submitted by BrianTT on February 9, 2011 - 1:05pm Video Game Rating: 2.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – As more and more successful games are developed and released, it becomes difficult not to have a mental rolodex of comparable titles as you play a new game. Who doesn’t compare new war-set shooters to “Call of Duty”? Who is not going to remember “Dead Space 2” the next time they play sci-fi? And the world of the fantasy RPG has seen some gems recently including “Dragon Age Origins,” “Elder Scrolls IV,” and the “Fable” series. “Two Worlds II” fails in comparison in every single category.
Video Game Review: ATV Racer ‘Nail’d’ Appeals to Adrenalin Junkies
Submitted by BrianTT on December 21, 2010 - 2:40pmCHICAGO – The so-so year for racing games closes with the semi-successful “Nail’d,” an ATV-racing affair with an impressive need for speed that still comes off a bit too repetitive and frustrating to fully recommend. Speed junkies will find some addictive fun here but aggravation plays nearly as significant a role in the final product as adrenalin.
