My 10 Favorite Spyro Levels
The Spyro trilogy may have many easy, breezy levels, but there are some with clever twists and fun content that showcase the games at their best.
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The Spyro trilogy may have many easy, breezy levels, but there are some with clever twists and fun content that showcase the games at their best.
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Continue readingThere’s a crucial difference between the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon trilogies: their hub worlds. The former has a world map in the first game akin to Super Mario World where you move your character along linear paths with stopping points signifying levels. The other games opt for one area divided into five sections that…
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Continue readingWith dozens of projects behind his name, Jason Graves is a composer of many talents. He won two BAFTA awards for his work on Dead Space and a BAFTA nomination for Tomb Raider, composed the highly unconventional score for Far Cry Primal, and recorded The Order: 1886’s majestic music at…
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Continue readingThis April, the God of War series will return after five years of silence. Kratos desolated the Greek pantheon and the world they ruled over, but he’s somehow stolen away to the Norse realm to conduct a quiet life of isolation. How did he wind up there? What trail of…
Continue readingThe mysteries of Half-Life 3 and episode three of Half-Life 2 may never officially be resolved. Extensive, investigative work has resulted in little to no revelation, and whenever information does crop up, it’s delivered at the most unexpected times in the most roundabout manners. Valve may have abandoned its silent theoretical physicist, but other developers…
Continue readingSonic The Hedgehog ran with Archie Comics for nearly 25 years until Sega partnered with IDW last year. With unfinished storylines and an unclear direction, the most notable constant is writer Ian Flynn: a Sonicseries regular who has also worked on Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and an upcoming Arms storyline….
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