Telltale Games are back in the toy box with the latest in the Lego series, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. As the title suggests, the game moves outside of the movies and into the realms of the Clone Wars TV show following episodes from the first couple of seasons. If you’ve ever played a Lego game before then you’ll instantly be at home here, but there are a few added extras that continue to improve the Lego series. Continue Reading…
Name:
Steve Heath
Gamertag:
The Likely Lad – Chosen whilst listening to The Libertines.
Digital content is big business. Since the current generation of consoles became Internet connected all the creators are out for more of your money via downloadable content, in game micro-transactions and full game digital downloads. But Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have adopted different methods. Microsoft and Nintendo adopted virtual currency while Sony went for real cash value, but is either method better? Continue Reading…
Published: THQ
Developer: Kaos Studios
Rating: PEGI 18
Genre: FPS
Metacritic score: 71%
Platforms: Xbox360 Arcade, Playstation3.
Well thanks to the lovely website Bee.com my copy of Homefront has arrived two days early! Lucky, lucky me!! Now I’ve only not spent a few hours in game at this point a couple of missions into the single player and a couple of hours messing about in multi-player but it has given me enough of an insights I thought id write a quick blog and share my initial thoughts and feelings about the game.
Fight the past to save the future. Stop the Singularity.Singularity is a pretty unique first person shooter. In the single player campaign, you play US soldier Captain Nathaniel Renko who is part of a reconnaissance team sent to investigate an island known as “Katorga-12″. The helicopter you fly in on is shot out of the sky by some strange tower emitting an electromagnetic pulse. You awake on the island and start to investigate, leading you into a huge cover up by the Russian government and ultimately deciding the fate of the world. Continue Reading…
Published: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft
Rating: PEGI 7+
Genre: Adventure
Metacritic score: 85%
Platforms: Xbox360 Arcade, Playstation3.
Eight years ago i started to play said game on the behemoth that was the original XBOX I only managed an hour or so before deciding this game wasn’t for me the lack of guns and a first person view was a turn off and the lure of Halo was just far too strong for me to resist.
Meanwhile in the press the game gathered critical acclaim and received a nomination for “Game of the Year” at the 2004 Game Developers Choice Awards (however as per many cult classics it didn’t perform well at retail) the only thing that my copy gathered was dust sat on a shelf only to be sold a year later to help fund some other gaming gadget purchase.
Over the years the game garnered Cult Status and I found myself wondering why oh why hadn’t I persevered with the game, what had I missed I wanted to know what was all the fuss about , however having moved on to the next generation and not owning anything capable of playing the retail disk I was left wondering…….
Published: Electronic Arts
Developer: People Can Fly & Epic Games
Rating: PEGI 18
Genre: FPS
Metacritic score: 84%
Platforms: Xbox360, Playstation3, Microsoft Windows
Bulletstorm is set in the 26th Century, at a time in which the protection of Planets has been handed to a black ops army known as “Dead Echo”. The story follows Grayson Hunt, a foul mouthed, hard drinking space pirate, and his partner Ishi Sato, both of whom were dishonorably discharged from Dead Echo after being set up and betrayed by their boss, the wonderfully evil General Sarrano. Continue Reading…
The Dragon Age Tome
I noticed today that alongside the release of Dragon Age 2 on 11th March the official guide to the game is also released. While not a new practice, it did make me wonder what sort of person buys a guide on day one? To me a game should be a challenge. OK, so I don’t want to be stuck and give in, but I also actually want to complete it of my own volition. Continue Reading…
Name: Simon Watts
Gamertag: i am woko
Where are you from?: Birmingham
Hobbies: Videogames, distance running, fiction writing, and films.
Music I listen to most: Any.
Favourite movies/TV progs: IT Crowd, True Blood.
Most read books: Originally any Science Fiction/Fantasy, but now I’m into the Classics.
Things I dislike the most: Unfairness.
When did you start gaming, and on what platform?: Late 1970s. I’m sure it all began on an arcade machine, but my first home system was an Acetronic MPU 1000. Continue Reading…
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