Archive for January, 2011 - Page 5

I don’t know about you, but when I play a FPS, I’m usually more satisfied when I dispatch an enemy using a melee attack than I am when I use a gun. Granted, this isn’t always the case – let’s be honest, blasting an enemy with a rocket launcher can [...]

Not that LittleBig Planet 2 wasn’t already extremely high in my regard, but it just went through the ceiling after I got a load of this Zelda recreation. I long thought that a game which made other awesome games was one of those things that couldn’t exist, like when you [...]

Bayonetta received almost universal acclaim when it was released, especially as the title that managed what very few if any games had done before: depict a sexy, powerful and independent female character with style and confidence. It’s safe to say Platinum are trying a completely different tack now, with their [...]

Valve is putting in a noble effort, but ultimately pointless, as most efforts of the noble variety are to dissuade people from uncouth comparisons between the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of its upcoming puzzler. Well, there is one rather significant difference, which has come about as a result of [...]

Yes, Microsoft have announced that there’s a Kinect SDK for PC coming and you’d think that would slow Kinect hackers down a bit, but no dice. But although the world is pretty much fed up with Kinect hacks but there’s just something about this video that just fires up your [...]

The main thing Enslaved had going for it was the prowess of its voice actors, actors like Andy Serkis, or Gollum to you and me. And while it leveraged that beautifully, the *ahem* borrowed overarching narrative just wasn’t that interesting, and probably most unforgiving of all, the gameplay quickly devolved [...]

By all accounts, Magicka is something worth playing and, even better, something worth playing produced by a small independent developer, which is always pretty heartwarming no matter how you look at it. Which makes the issues people are currently experiencing with the game ‘s Co-Op mode, namely that some of [...]

I suppose what Microsoft is doing with Games For Windows Marketplace can be called competition with Steam, in the same way that a spitball launcher is sort of like the Large Hadron Collider, but even Microsoft have their moments and this seems to be one of their better ones. Not [...]

Rythm puzzle game Chime, which I have yet to try but still hear very nice things about is coming to the PSN. Good, I say, the PSN needed a win after all the recent vandalism it’s suffered at the hands of umm… vandals. Although I suppose what with Sony’s injunction [...]

Star Wars The Old Republic is shaping up nicely, but it hasn’t really shown the MMO convention destroying and putting back together chops it needs to really shake the foundations of this World of Warcraft dominated genre. Especially since Blizzard are not only reinventing the game at every step despite [...]