Restless Dreams [Reviews, Reactions, Responses]

This review is based on the PC version of Alien: Isolation , available on Steam. Background Can I just start this off by saying that I love that this game exists ? (yes, I can, it's my review. I'll do whatever I please.) I've been a fan of the Alien film series for years. I own all of the four Alien -titled movies on DVD, and I'm able to appreciate parts of Prometheus and the two Alien vs. Predator films, but my favorite will always be the first: Alien , from 1979. Perfect pacing, a really great plot of events, realistic characters with strong performances from everyone, fantastic visual style and sound design, and the amazing designs by the amazingly talented late H.R. Gigar for the Alien (among other things) make it one of my favorite films of all time. The fact that the first and the last few minutes of the film lack any dialogue really shows a great sense of direction. It's no wonder that so many films since its release have borrowed something from Al...

This review is based on the PC version of The Wolf Among Us , available on Steam. Hot off of the success they garnered with their excellent adaptation of The Walking Dead , Telltale Games set off to tackle another acclaimed graphic novel with The Wolf Among Us . And boy am I glad that they did. Based on the Fables series written by Bill Willingham, The Wolf Among Us is centered around the investigations conducted by Bigby Wolf, the sheriff of a community in New York City called Fabletown. Appropriately, Fabletown is where a variety of characters from old fables and folk lore now live, following their exile from the Homelands. Bigby thus has to deal with the issues of such characters as Toad, Beauty, Beast, Snow White, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and Grendel. Many of the characters would look peculiar in our "Mundie" world of humans, so some (such as Grendel and Jersey) use a magic called Glamour in order to appear human, though they'll show their true forms in t...