After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.
This is a gruesome psychodrama of class and racial warfare that projects an almost cartoonishly slanted political message.
There’s a certain familiarity to what you do in a LEGO franchise game. And that’s just hunky-dory.
Amid all of this prison simulation’s would-be moralizing, players still must muddle through a lot of messy, M-rated material.
The Shallows isn’t just a “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” clone. It actually goes quite a bit deeper than that.
This imaginative, interactive, story-based game invites players on a journey that meanders through grief toward an abstract ending.
Dory’s determination to return home, then, becomes a series of teachable moments about loss, parental nurturing, friendship …
It’s a toss-up which is worse in this blood-drenched first-person shooter: its content or its quality.
Kirby’s latest adventure sticks him in a massive mech suit, but keeps him just as pink and charming.
A big-budget sequel that packs a lot more ridiculous and pointless CGI flash up its cinematic sleeves than anything approaching artful maneuvering.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst walks a T-rated tightrope between acrobatic gameplay and content parents of younger players may wish the game had jumped over.
This yesterday-and-tomorrow-but-never-today amusement feels less dark and dangerous than the Alice in Wonderland original.
What more were we expecting from a cartoon based on a phone app that shoots miffed birds at pigs?
Women everywhere should wince and gasp at such a cinematic definition of feminine panache.
