Deus Ex: Human Revolution

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  BASTION Wins Best Original Score at Spike’s Video Game Awards

  January 3, 2012 | Gideon Dabi | 3 Comments Share this BASTION Wins Best Original Score at Spike’s Video Game Awards

  

  Independent developer, Supergiant Games, dropped this little gem of a game onto the XBOX Live Marketplace on August 16th, 2011, and it hasn’t looked back since. Widely hailed as one of the best indie games of the year, Gamespot’s former Editor, Greg Kasavin, devised a genius script with an astonishingly innovative narrator to make the story and presentation of Bastion unique. Thankfully, not lost in all the glitz and glamour was Darren Korb’s quirky and charming score. Korb’s score beat outBatman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Portal 2, and it does give me some sense of satisfaction to see the new guy with the small game best the year’s giants.

  Do you agree with the VGA’s choice of winner and nominees? Be sure to check out our year-end awards, OSVOSTOTY, in the coming weeks!

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  Deus Ex Human Revolution: No Need for Augmentation Here (Review)

  September 23, 2011 | Gideon Dabi | 3 Comments Share this Deus Ex Human Revolution: No Need for Augmentation Here (Review)

  

  2011 seems to be a year full of comeback stories. Storied franchises like BloodRayne, Marvel vs. Capcom, and even Duke Nukem (no, I can’t believe it, either) have all returned after some years in hiatus. Not to be outdone, Square Enix-backed Eidos Montreal updated its beloved franchise, Deus Ex, with a blockbuster prequel, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Though much of last year and the early part of this year allowed for game developers to entrust their sequels’ soundtracks to the franchises’ original composers (i.e. Bioshock 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Halo: REACH, Dragon Age II, Dead Space 2, God of War III) with surprisingly winning results, much of the rest of this year hasn’t been as kind to the original baton-holders. The Red Faction, Crysis, and Mafia franchises have all gone the way of bringing in different composers than their respective franchises’ previous outings. Now, the Deus Ex franchise joins this band of IP’s – but does it have equally successful results? (more…)

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