You’re probably wondering why I’m posting up an Army of Two review at this juncture. When we were first kicking around the idea of starting our own website, we decided that it’d be a good idea to try our hand at writing some reviews, to see if we had a knack for this kind of thing; Army of Two was my first review. ( Well, technically speaking, The Darkness and Overlord were my first two reviews, but those have been long gone for ages now.)

So I hope you enjoy this “old” review, and that you’ll keep coming back for more reviews of newer games. October should be a good month for games, as the bigger titles will soon begin coming out. Also, I would like to point out that I haven’t forgotten about the user reviews. Information concerning those will be going up any day now.

Just a quick note to let you guys know that the “Submit a Review” section is now up. All the information you need should be located in that section, so I’ll let you guys have a look for yourselves. If anyone has any questions, feel free to give me a shout!

There are numerous advantages when it comes to using the Internet as a publication medium, one of them being the relatively painless task of bringing modifications to previously-posted articles. If I were, for instance, publishing a monthly print magazine, the only way I could make a change to an article would be to A) wait until next month’s issue to post a correction, or B) in the case of a truly horrible mistake, perform a call-back.

Scary.

By publishing on the web, I’ve been able to perform updates to some of my posts relatively hassle-free. Noticed a spelling mistake I made? No problem! Noticed an inconsistency in one of my strips? Fixed before anyone else even notices it was there! So if I can fix things this easily, certainly there should be ways for me to improve some of my articles after the fact.

Games are also an interesting medium: they have a way, unique to themselves, to provide us with a message; of course, if you’re familiar with McLuhan, you might also agree that video games basically are their own message, but I digress.

Over time, we tend to see things differently; to feel differently about things. Sometimes it’s because of changes brought to the medium, while other times, its because of changes that take place within ourselves. Perhaps a game that released with shoddy controls gets an update, which fixes its usability, or perhaps you simply discover something new about a game you hadn’t noticed was there before. That’s why I believe some reviews are worth revisiting; I’m not insinuating that we should re-review games: it’s important for the original point of view to be known, because as in many things in life, first impressions are usually the most important; what I’m suggesting, however, is that we allow ourselves to add addenda to the bottom of our reviews; an aftermath, or an epilogue if you will, to our initial reviews; because let’s face it, most of the time, a reviewer is more concerned with his timeliness than his thoroughness, or perhaps even more indicative, is the fact that we are, after all, gamers, and quite often we re-play games, sometimes because it was one we cherished, sometimes because it was one disliked, but in the spirit of fairness, decided to give it another try. I hope these addenda will support these notions.