BRÜTAL LEGEND is the story of Eddie Riggs, a roadie sent back in time to save humanity by teaching it how to rock. It starts as a brawler, then incorporates some racing and ends up being a real time strategy game conducted as a general on the field. The elements almost work together, but the highs of the story and the good parts of the gameplay are held back by...

I picked up a used PSP this week, so I spent a good portion of the past seven days experimenting with the system. Word of warning: Don’t buy a game on the account of the guy who owned it before you and then reset the settings so you can set up your own account. The first thing I did was download Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from the PSN store. I had been...

I’ve always been a huge Spider-Man fan. But I hated his games because they, like most superhero games, were just crappy beat ‘em ups with a few cool web moves thrown in. The brawlers missed what made Spider-Man an interesting character. When SPIDER-MAN 2 came out I was blown away. Here was a game where I was Spider-Man — whipping around New York,...