Patapownage An incredibly satisfying title which hooks you in In the summer of 2006, LocoRoco was released for the PSP ? and with precious little in the way of fanfare. With the exciting launch of the first next-gen console to anticipate and a crowded release calendar which included new instalments of such venerable franchises as …
Square Enix has some serious competition If you mention Strategy RPG to PSP owners they will probably give you one of 2 responses. Either, ?oh you mean like Final Fantasy Tactics? or ?what the **** is one of them?? Now to be fair the genre is not that popular here in the west- in it’s …
Real-time strategy, Unrivaled scale… no sh**! Sins of a Solar Empire, aptly tagged “Real-time Strategy, Unrivaled Scale”, is just that: an RTS set in a truly humongous universe to indulge all your space wars fantasies. All in all, Sins of a Solar Empire is nothing short of a breakthrough game in the world of real-time …
Something old,Something new… Everyone remembers how they felt when the first X Men film came out. We all saw the potential in the franchise, recognised the muted genius, but ultimately thought we weren’t quite seeing what the promise was living up to. Only after the second film could we go back and judge it fairly. …
War..huh, what is it good for? Well PSP gaming actually Few phrases in gaming truly terrify me. But ?Turn Based Strategy? hits the spot every time. I have flash backs to Napoleonic re-enactments on my old C64 and my Dads Civil war games on his PC. So when THQ sent me a copy of Warhammer …
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How does 100 hours more gameplay on Medieval II:Total war sound? When faced with choice, there are two kinds of people in the world. The Doing Man prefers to get out there and pull the trigger, wading knee deep into the thick of the action. He loves Halo. The Thinking Man, however, prefers to stay …
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A game well worth discovering. Some games appear on my door and I genuinely have no expectations of greatness or failure for them. I see them and think, ?ooo another game that looks like such and such?. In the case of Anno 1701: Dawn of discovery, my thoughts centred on, ?ooo another game that looks …
Awwww its so cute! Wow?.such pretty colours, such cuddly sprites?.. This is a game which MUST appeal to all ages, from kids to us adults (when did that happen, surely games are for us grown ups?). It’s a cutesy game in real terms, but kinda like the sims for kids. Designed together with the “Viva …
Live the life in the Carribeans! The 17th century was one of the most exciting periods in History: in the Carribeans, traders, buccaneers, pirates and all other sorts of gentlemen of fortune were trying to make the best out of the endless possibilities that the new continent had to offer. Port Royale 2 does an …
You got the whole world, in your hand! Some games in this world appear to have been around for ever. Tetris, Pirates!, Prince of Persia to name but a few. Of all of these long lived games, one springs to mind as the most prolifically ported and repackaged game that I can think of, SimCity. …
Shall we play a game? These days computer games and movies go pretty much hand in hand, whether it is a movie of a game or a game of a movie. But back in the 80’s that wasn’t so much the case. Sure there were movie tie in games, but not to the same scale …
Wage war in this simple but enjoyable strategy game. Over the years there have been many strategy games. Most recently the Total War series has set the bar for what strategy games should look like and how they should play.So when I picked up the History Channel approved Great Battles of Rome, I was a …
