Website Review: Giant Bomb

Giant Bomb is yet a another resource site buried in a niche market of video game resource sites. When it comes to documenting the release of new video games, and guides for all of them, the market is pretty much cornered on the internet. if you don't want the subscriber exclusives(note: silly rumors created to get people's hopes up no no reason) from IGN, there's always Gamespot. If you can't stand that sites overall sluggishness, GameFAQs is the way to go. If you just want to look at videos, Game Trailers is zen.

Where do you go for intensive video game tire coverage though? If not for Giant Bomb, you'd be SOL when it comes to learning about the many uses video game developers have come up with for wheels made of rubber.

Giant Bomb is 2 parts database, 2 parts news source, and 2 parts 1up mushroom with sprinkling of message board thrown in for flavor.

As a niche wiki, it's pretty tame. I'm not sure if I expected too much from the character/game/object database due to my over exposure to UnclePedia. When you have a page dedicated to a stick, also with the list of games in which people have noticed said sticks appearance, one would think there would be a hilarious write up to go along with such nonsense.

One would think wrong. It seems that 105% of the comedy present of Giant Bomb is concentrated in blog posts form the sites administrators.So this either means one of two things. The admins are very strict when it comes to the user generated content placed on the site, or the majority of Giant Bomb's users had a funny bone removed. Either way, I'm a little disappointed overall.

Giant Bomb's guide section more than makes up for database's shortcomings. until discovering this wonderful resource, my favorite place for video game walkthroughs was GameFAQs. The one thing bothering me about most walkthroughs is the lack of visual aids.

On Giant Bomb, users have the ability to upload pictures to their guides. No more getting load in a 40 hour RPG because you overlooked the 43rd armoursmith with the secret key, hiding behind a dumpster, in a small town you thought was deserted(which always seems to happen to me...)

Other noteworthy sections on the site: videos, trivia, reviews, bombcast(podcast) and the forums. If I were to sum up Giant Bomb's content with one questionably real word, it would have to be "Uber". Giant Bomb does a good job at being the all in one video game resource site. It's a welcome addiction to the semi crowded niche of gaming news pit stops.