Category: Review

Review Shooter: A Christmas Carol (Dark Horse Comics)

Writer: Rod Espinosa Artist: Rod Espinosa Review by Tim Taylor Dark Horse (with surprisingly odd timing) has released an adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. One may wonder what exactly the adaptation does differently, and we...

Review Shooter: Rayman Jungle Run

When you think of your typical iOS game, several words come to mind: casual, gimmicky, shallow, and cheap. When you think of an iOS installment of a “traditional” gaming series, several others also come...

Review Shooter: The Darkness II

In the sequel to Starbreeze Studios’ 2007 sleeper The Darkness, mercenary developer Digital Extremes brings back protagonist Jackie Estacado, a young mafia boss who wields and ancient demonic power known as, well, The Darkness....

Review Shooter: Mark of the Ninja

Review By: Martin Baier  Klei Entertainment made their first big splash in 2010 with Shank. Everyone, including me, was immediately impressed with the art style and the fluid animations the game had to offer....

Reviews on Deck

It has come time, once again, for Nerds on the Rocks to evolve our review scale. While the Buy/Wait/Avoid system has served us well, we feel that as we expand our coverage that we...

Review Shooter: Demigods

Writer: Jesse Grillo Artists: Luigi Teruel, Robert Grant and Heather Breckel There’s an old expression, “there’s nothing new under the sun.” The expression usually means that there aren’t new stories. Anything that has had, will happen...