Mar 23, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - The Lanna is focused on cutting the defense slack. You are the Osgiliath to your fellow defender’s Minas Tirith.  Floating around the middle of the map, she is focused on destroying incoming enemy assaults, providing the last hope for stopping a runaway flag, and creating a kind of buffer base between your opponent’s base and your...

Mar 19, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - Meet the Gadfly, so named because he’s primarily concerned with being the biggest nuisance imaginable – a real jackass actually. No one sees more rage quits then a successful Gadfly, testing the opponent’s defenses, getting cheap kills, and destroying as many special buildings as she can. The Gadfly will force your opponents into...

Mar 10, 2012

After a couple of sub-par performances with Dragon Age 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, some wondered if Bioware was losing its magic. Running in parallel to these perceptions, a confluence of circumstances conspired to inflate expectations for Mass Effect 3, chief among them the previous two games themselves. The result is an unenviable position for our...

Mar 10, 2012

It’s unfortunate that a few major setbacks prevent Mass Effect 3 from breakout success status. For a game with explosive production values, a little more polish in the right areas could give this title the nod for top 10 games in this generation. Despite being a Bioware franchise handled with such loving care, it doesn’t iterate as well as it could...

Mar 8, 2012

The Flashy Review is proud to present a brand new feature on the site: For the Swarm, a lower league Zerg player’s attempt to understand the various strategies of the game and fight his way up the ladder. There are a lot of similar features out there written by pros or those heavily invested in the game, but I am neither.  Instead, I am a casual silver...