Archive for July, 2009

I’ve been running through my fair share of video games lately, and one thing I noticed about a few of them as I was playing was that either I’ve become extremely fickle, or there are some really balls-to-the-wall bad ideas being trumpeted right at the start of games that really make the entire game unplayable.  [...]

The idea is simple: take the excellent framework of Battlefield 1942 and three of the most popular multiplayer maps that game produced, add in the Frostbite engine used to power Battlefield: Bad Company, simplify the class system and vehicles for a perfect ‘jump in and play’ style game and sit back and watch the copies [...]

Having been occupying my time recently with returns to well-worn games such as Rock Band (both 1 and 2) and Burnout Paradise, as well as wasting time on Battlefield 1943, which I will try to get a review out for in the next few days, it seems I should perhaps be actually trying to make [...]

Over the last few months or so I’ve been intending to write reviews for a number of games that I’ve played and beaten, though the distraction of playing the games themselves or lack of inspiration when it came to writing that never quite happened. However, so as not to leave them forgotten before I move [...]