Archive for 'Review'

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was a happy surprise back when it came out.  It pulled off a quite original style of platforming flavored vigorously with parkour, created a battle system that, while repetitive, gelled nicely with the rest of the gameplay, and created a main character that was funny, affable, and original.  It [...]

When Mirror’s Edge first appeared you couldn’t help but be intrigued. DICE, long-time developers of the (rather successful) Battlefield series FPSs were ditching the ‘S’ to create a platform/adventure game in the first-person. Set in a rather sterile dystopian future, where the government has become ‘big brother’ and controls all communication, the game would follow [...]

As I touched upon recently, right now I find myself somewhat busy for a number of reasons, not least of all the barrage of must-have, must-play games that have found their way through my letterbox in the last couple of weeks. However, over the last month and some I’ve made my way through a few [...]

It would be fair to say that Mercenaries 2: World In Flames and I didn’t get off to the best of starts. Bought on the promise of sandbox fun, big explosions and, most importantly, an entirely co-operative campaign, I was rather keen to get hands on with the game only to run face-first into the [...]

Hello gentlemen (and lady), it’s time for another installment of that series that everyone no one asked for, the Classic XBLA Awards!
I can’t really think of anything to pad this part out today, so let’s just get straight to awards, shall we?

The recent hullabaloo over the delisting of Xbox Live Arcade Games got me thinking.  I own, sadly enough, close to 100 of these games.  I’m sure some of the ones I own are ones that are going to fall into the delisting “zone”.  Whether or not Microsoft is actually going to follow up remains to [...]

Despite enjoying a good beat’em up, it’s not a genre I’ve ever gotten into massively. For the longest time the I was into one series alone: Street Fighter. I’ve owned and played games from SFII Turbo through to the Alpha series, and even had the original EX (Street Fighter’s first move into 3D, which I [...]

Title: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Publisher: Naughty Dog
Platform: Playstation 3

Setting out to create a game based on 30’s adventure serials, Indiana Jones, the classic adventure console/computer games, and modern action titles, well, that’s the easy bit. Deciding to wrap the entire thing up in a blanket of cinematic portrayal and seriously blur the line between film and [...]

Let me start off by saying that I am, admittedly, fond of sandbox games.  I use that term loosely, too.  Pretty much any game that lets you run around and start whatever, whenever, in whatever order you like.  I’ve always loved the freedom afforded you to just make the experience whatever you want it instead [...]

I’ve long been a fan of RPGs and am partial to a spot of tactics and strategy in my games, so, as you might assume, Strategy RPGs have always held an element of appeal to me. And any talk of SRPGs will inevitably lead to mention of titles such as Fire Emblem, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea [...]