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Now all we need is a deck of cards…. Man, I’ve waited a long time for this. And as is often the case with something you wait so long for, it’s all too easy to expect too much. As a canon sequel to one of the greatest action films ever made, Aliens: Colonial Marines was …
Multiplayer fighting done right. Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (or PSASBR moving forward) is an interesting concept – it poses that simple, twelve-year-old’s question we often ask: Who would win in a fight? Thanks to Sony taking a leaf out of a competitors well-worn handbook, you can now satisfy your desires of taking a Big …
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The FPS masters return, with a world beating bit of FPS gameplay. Far Cry 3 slipped a little under the radar for many people – nestled at the thick end of the release calendar, and tucked behind the final Assassins Creed episode (itself from Ubisoft too, no less) and the mighty CODBLOPS2, the Crytek roam-em-up …
When a retro title is retro itself, is it still fun? The number one concern with any new Painkiller title is how far it strays from the legacy title – after becoming shorthand for overtly simplistic rehashing of a core principle, recent entries to the franchise have been, quite honestly, dire. Whilst it’s fair to …
One badass mutha-clucker in an 80s action platformer package. It’s kind of hard to work out Rocketbirds; how do you explain a game with so much charm covering over such outdated gameplay? In its essence, RB:HC is simply a side scrolling action platformer, much in the vein of titles such as the original Prince of …
Welcome back to Pandora Borderlands 2 stands as only the second game in its genre, really – an FPS with RPG elements and insane loot-styled overtones, wrapped in a black-comedy packet with a cartoon style. It’s weird – I still meet people who never played the first, and yet, ask anyone who did and they …
No story, tough combat, sheer learning curve – and yet, one of the best games of this generation. So, Dark Souls, the console “classic” RPG widely considered to be one of the hardest games this generation – From Software even subtitled it “Prepare to Die”. But what is it really – stat counting numberthon, crafting …
Multiplayer FPS has restored the king to his rightful throne. All hail! Here it comes, the blurb. You know, that bit that tells you all about how Counter Strike started as a mod, and went on to become the biggest multiplayer game in yaddayaddayadda. But in truth, there’s only three reasons anyone is reading this …
The first of this year’s future shooters ports to PC I don’t get public response to Ghost Recon at times. Ask anyone you know who games what their favourite shooter is, and it will probably be COD, Battlefield or similar. Yet, the biggest complaint from nearly everyone is the meathead gameplay of these titles – …
So NOT a shooter, yet so much fun Split! is a quirky game that misleads from the off – fully expecting a chunky little shooter variant, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it isn’t. Despite the proliferation of guns and death, the player has a very simple control scheme at hand – drag paths …
When the ship goes down, you’d better be ready…. Eurgh. Sometimes, being a reviewer is a joy – getting your hands on a copy of the latest blockbuster before anyone else is both thrilling and allows us a sense of importance. However, at times, we have to review things that are the other end of …
Single player action meets MMO missions, with surprising results. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (or KAR for the rest of this review) is an interesting proposition, which answers some very fresh questions about RPGs as a genre. What would happen if you added God of War’s combat to a role playing game? How about if you …