Archive for the ‘Games for Dads’ Category

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Most recommendations on XboxDad are for the kids – but this one is for Dad.
Sure, super heroes start out for kids, but this game is truly about the Dark Knight.  It takes you inside the dark world of Arkham Asylum, where all of Gotham’s worst are locked up.  Of course, Joker has taken over, [...]

February 26, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads, News and Events  No Comments

Cars : Race-O-Rama

If you liked the first Cars game from Disney and THQ, then you ought to really, really like this one.  If you didn’t (but did like the movie), then you should still probably give this game a shot.
Cars Race O Rama took the better parts of the original game and made them so much [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads  No Comments

LEGO Battles for Nintendo DS

As promised, I did get LEGO Battles for Fathers Day – so I wanted to share my enthusiasm for this game.  My sons have both been into LEGO for a few years – and of course, I played with them when I was a kid.
We have collectively played through all 3 video game series (as [...]

July 8, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads, Games for Kids, highlights  4 Comments

Family Game Night by Hasbro

FINALLY !!
Old fashioned family games — on Xbox!!
The classics — Yahtzee, Scrabble, Connect Four, Sorry, Battleship, and others…
This month, on Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade, Hasbro released a really cool shell, where you will find yourself in a game room.  On the game wall, you’ll find these and other classic Hasbro games, first available as [...]

April 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads, Games for Kids  No Comments

Rise of the Argonauts

I must admit that I have been looking forward to this game for a while.  Of course, I am big fan of RPG style games, but a few things made this one special from the beginning:
Instead of the generic middle-earth or Dungeons&Dragons type world, this one is set in the rich tapestry of Greek Mythology, [...]

March 9, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads  No Comments

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

A version of this review also appeared under Xbox Dad column on Xbox.com
My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves – the Scene It?  Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360.  And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner.
The kit comes with four [...]

February 29, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads  No Comments