Tag: 360

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the final entry in the long-running and pretty well-liked Star Ocean series.  It follows up on the godawful story of Star Ocean 3 and ends the series with a longer, more epic tale of spaceships, symbology, and silliness.
On paper, Star Ocean 4 is a no-brainer.  It’s a series that [...]

Back when the XNA Community Games section was announced, the general reaction that I saw was one of cautious optimism.  The idea of independent developers getting a low-cost entry into the downloadable games field and actually have the chance to earn money doing it sounded like a noble endeavor, but the niggling doubt in the [...]

As ever I’ve been busy playing games over the last few months and thought I’d catch up with another mega review. I had intended for these to be a little on the shorter side than my regular reviews, but it seems my fingers got a little carried away on a couple of them. Ah well, [...]

For the first I can think of in quite some time I have absolutely no games on pre-order. Zero. Nadda. None. I literally can not think of a time in recent memory when that was the case, and it’s a slightly odd feeling, though a welcome one. I’m hoping this break in new titles might [...]

Or Tom Clancy’s B.U.L.L.O.X.
Or Tom Clancy’s C.A.W.X.
Or Tom Clancy’s C.R.O.X……of shit.
Yeah. Yeah.
New AEROPLANAN’ GAEM right. Can’t be that bad. Or something. Right…right?
I wouldn’t be writing this if it wasn’t.
Well, FUCK.

So yesterday Jay got around to picking up a cheap copy Scene It? Box Office Smash – a rather decent movie quiz game and all-round improvement on the solid Lights, Camera, Action – and so I dropped him a message on Live seeing if he was interested in a bit of friendly online competition. Being [...]

One of the worse parts of being mates with a bunch of yanks is that every time a game release comes around that I’m excited for I have this horrible three day wait whilst they enjoy the game and I’m sat twiddling my thumbs. This is all down to the fact that in the US [...]

After finishing Prince of Persia in 2 days, I checked my email to discover that its predecessor from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed, was on its way.  Not one to turn down a good game, I gamely fired it up to find out how good it was, especially compared to its spiritual sequel, Prince of Persia.  I [...]

OK, so is this just me or is anyone else finding that the NXE, the 360’s ‘wonderful’ new dashboard upgrade, is becoming rather less wonderful in terms of its speed. One of the major selling points was the fact that the NXE would rectify a lot of the speed issues the old dashboard was becoming [...]

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 [...]