When it comes to sport I’m usually the go-to-guy within my group of friends. Probably because at some point in time I’ve taken it upon myself to learn the rules and have a go at just about every sport made available to me. From athletics to go-karting and just about everything in between, I’ve had a go at it. And [...]
Warp has a nice little premise behind it. Instead of casting the player as an alien hunting tough-guy you are a fragile little alien that has been taken in by unscrupulous Earth scientists for study. It boats nice graphics, intriguing movement and interaction mechanics, and is the first project from indie developer Trapdoor. Unfortunately though, some poor design decisions, as [...]
I have been playing RPG games of all stripes for almost as long as I have been gaming, taking in everything from the Infinity Engine games, Diablo and it’s army of clones and Bethesda-style open-world titles. Over these years of virtual dice-rolls, broken mouses and back peddling I have always wondered why no developer ever tried to graft the combat [...]
Patience is something that generally isn’t a virtue in the world of modern gaming. For the most part it’s one big race to the finish line, be it by killing enough enemies, collecting enough coins are literally crossing a finishing line, it’s looked upon as something that must be done quick before someone else beats you. There are some exceptions [...]
Last time I explained some of the ground work that The Old Republic does before letting you out into the big wide galaxy. It lays down the basic “rule set” for you chosen class and introduces the story beats you will be following for the next hundred or so hours. With a fairly firm grasp of the game under my [...]
In my time reviewing games I have never really been tasked with reviewing one that will be a completely different title a year, possibly even mere months after my review is posted. That is what I have been tasked with doing in reviewing Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. It is the RPG veterans first MMO and one that has [...]
By: Alan Murphy The dust has long now settled on New Zealand’s hallowed Eden Park, the stadium in which the All Blacks lifted the Webb Ellis trophy for only the second time, just. And with the hype died down long enough I though it was time to give the tournaments officially licensed game a good look at without any prejudice [...]
One thing I had always wondered about the Gears of War universe was how things managed to get as bad as they are when the player hooks up with Marcus at the start of the first game. Sure the Locust had surprise but surely there was a period when the COG at least attempted a stand-up fight rather than desperate [...]
Time to welcome new contributor Alan Murphy to the team with his look at FIFA 12, this years entry in one of the most popular series in gaming. Here’s what Alan thought: By: ALAN MURPHY Another September comes and goes, and with that a new FIFA game. It’s become the norm over the past few years for EA Sports to [...]
Game naming conventions have come to a bit of an impasse in the last few years. Games either have numbers after their names or something like “storm”, “wars” or “rising”. Generally they are completely generic terms that are pretty catch all considering most games feature some kind of violence or are the start of a trilogy, which is where “rising” [...]
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