Great Scott! Telltale Games clearly has a winner with the Back to the Future Game, the new episodic story RPG released just in time for Christmas. Telltale has a pretty unique gaming model that involves bringing back popular titles like the Monkey Island series or, in this case, Marty McFly and Doc Brown of the Back to the Future trilogy.

Do you remember all those old roleplaying games from Sierra Online from back in the 80’s like King’s Quest, Space Quest, and Quest for Glory that we played in 256 colors? Well imagine those games brought back to life and improved with 21st century graphics and gameplay techniques. That is what Telltale has done. They focus purely on the story, and telling it in a fun and interactive way. I found myself immersed in the first episode of the Back to the Future Game, which takes place right where the third movie ended.
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Our adventures in New Vegas starts with a murder – your murder – shot and left for dead in a shallow grave outside of GoodSprings, Nevada. If it weren’t for a robot named Victor, you would have never recovered. Nursed to health by the local Doc, it isn’t long before you wake up primed on revenge. This sets the stage for the next 50 plus hours of game play as you run all across the Mohave Desert in search of a wise guy in a blue checkered suit, the last thing you saw while looking down the barrel of a gun.

Fallout New Vegas does not continue where its predecessor left off. This isn’t an expansion or even a part 2 of the storyline. While New Vegas takes place chronologically after our previous adventures in the Capital Wasteland, the Mohave Wasteland sports all new characters, all new storyline, and a whole new futuristic post-apocalyptic world that is now stuck in a Dean Martin 1950’s era after nuclear destruction forever changed the land.
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I was asked months ago to review this game for an X-box review site, but never completed the game. If it is such a great game, then why is it that I struggled for so long to finish it? Devil May Cry 4 is Capcom’s latest in the line of “extreme combat” action games. For those that have followed the storyline up until now, there is a new protagonist named Nero that brings with him a “demon claw” to add to the over-the-top weapon combat that characterizes this line of games. Don’t worry, Dante is still around, and players get to play as both Nero and Dante throughout the 20 primary missions available in Devil May Cry 4.

What immediately caught my eye with Devil May Cry 4 is that there is a Direct X 10 version for the PC that obviously wasn’t available for the console systems. Cranked all the way to the full 1920×1200, the graphics in this game look pretty dang amazing; especially considering this game was released back in 2008. Two years is a long time in the world of technology. My Core2Duo and GTX275 were able to handle all the settings pumped to the max, although someone should let Capcom know that they need to lay off the bloom lightning effects a little. It makes certain areas of the game look washed out.
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