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Just another day in paradise… After skydiving your way into what looks like a tropical paradise only to find it full of assault rifle toting pirates and mercenaries, you could be forgiven for thinking the fictional world of FarCry 3 isn’t all that unlike the Somali coastline. After all, there are speed boats and AK’s …
Is the obsession with release dates, profit margins and online gaming destroying our enjoyment? Is a deluge of online play destroying our video games industry? When I mosey on down to one of the high-street game retailers for my latest instalment of one of my favourite games, I am constantly disappointed by the longevity and …
Return of the king? It’s been along time coming. We’ve waited patiently for the daddy to return. I have played GT5, I have toiled with NFS Shift, and enjoyed GRID, but for me; nothing does racing like Forza Motorsport. From the very first game, Forza put the fun back into the racing sim where in …
Aces high? Having flown more hours now than the average allied WW2 pilot did before he took on the Jerry over the white cliffs of Dover, and turned plenty of fine German engineering into flaming scrap metal, what is it really like to be a ‘bird of prey’? If you think zooming around in a …
Keeping the faith…? To say that ‘Conviction’ pushes the boundaries of what Splinter Cell is, would be an understatement. As it really doesn’t conform to the Splinter Cell principles, less even than Double Agent, I think that this rebellion was important. The story is very different now, it’s personal to Sam, and the game reflects …
Does the Creed live on? When I bought the original Assassins Creed it was spontaneous. After playing the game for a mere three tenths’ of an hour or so I realised that this was probably one of the best historic sandbox style games currently on the market in terms of development (it could also be …
Leave your Fiat Punto at home son…. I think the word ‘shift’ here is pivotal, not only does it pertain to the manual task of physically disengaging a given gear in mind to select and alternate gear whilst driving, but also in respect to the expectations people have of NFS; maybe NFS has finally gone …