Brink
Genuine enthusiasm goes a long way with us. Listening to developers talk endlessly, with barely a pause for breath or to let the width of their smile shorten by an inch, sometimes they can win you over with their own personal excitement for a game. And in the case of Splash Damage’s senior game designer, […]
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
For some, Modern Warfare 2 is a multiplayer vehicle. Forget the single player merely ‘tracked-on’ for those not smart enough to venture online, they say, the latest iteration of Call of Duty is at its finest when comping over the PlayStation Network. Considering how well structured Infinity Ward’s latest is, this argument sounds like a […]
Mini Ninjas
It is always interesting to see how easily games get pigeonholed. It doesn’t take much- just an association with a particular genre or even a look and a game can be permanently branded. And, indeed, at first glance everything about Mini ninjas screams ‘casual family title’, or worse: ‘throwaway Wii kiddy fodder’, but thankfully we […]
SmackDown Vs Raw 2011
If you’ve have been a hardened fan of the SmackDown series for a few years, the same question is always asked as the next one creeps onto the radar; just what can Yuke’s do to keep the franchise both relevant and visible? Before 2008, it was getting the game back to its usual solid standard, […]
The Saboteur
There’s no denying that Pandemic’s last title, Mercenaries 2, was a bit of a disaster. For a game primarily about blowing everything up, then blowing it up again before it hits the ground, it managed to get an awful lot wrong. During pre-release events in which Mercenaries 2 was shown off, there was a feeling […]
Blur
While the first person shooter may have introduced elaborate new cover systems, and other sports titles the ability to play as just one athlete, the racing game is arguably this generation’s biggest innovator. After all, just this year the genre will have offered gamers a landscape the size of Northern Ireland; concussion effects upon crashing; […]
Civilization V – Coming real soon
The release of Civilization V is getting closer and closer. I remember the days, and I literally mean days that I would spend in front of my PC playing Civ 3 when it first came out. I managed to play 44 hours straight over the weekend before I had to go back into work. Ahh the memories. […]