By Vermouth , 29th September 7:23 pm
The Halo franchise has been something of a lightning rod amongst first-person shooters. Some criticize the game for getting too much praise, while others enjoy it’s somewhat unique style of combat that’s especially well tuned for consoles. As a matter of full disclosure I gave the first two games high scores of 9.7 and 9.6 respectively so I fall within the fan camp. If you’re a fan, this is the definitive Halo game to get, if you haven’t enjoyed the series then you probably won’t fall in love with this game - but you’re likely to get more out of this one than any previous Halo release.
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By Vermouth , 25th September 7:23 pm
This week Valve took the lid off of the Orange Box, allowing people who pre-purchased it to get in on the beta of Team Fortress 2. Playing the game again has been a hoot. It is a lot like Team Fortress (and Classic), only different in some key areas. It retained all that you like about the old game, 2 fort, Dustbowl, rocket jumping, flag running, engineers, and above all it maintains that feeling of tightly directed chaos that made the prior Team Fortress games great. But what it does differently is how it makes all the classes valuable, and it does away with some of the more spammy elements of the game. It also does a lot more to encourage playing as a team than the previous game.
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By Cyrris , 23rd September 12:16 am
Every gamer has a favourite game vehicle which they just wish they could own in real life. Yes, of course there are those playing Need for Speed and Gran Turismo who salivate over the rather mundane and down-to-earth vehicles featured there, but I’m talking about more interesting modes of transport.
I mean, yes, an Aston Martin DBS is my current dream car, but far beyond that would be a Mammoth Tank. Then again, I’ve always fancied having my own Super Star Destroyer. It cuts me up inside every time I see it go down in Return of the Jedi, or Empire at War for that matter. One of those Mantas from Unreal Tournament 2004 would sure as hell solve all my traffic problems every morning.
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By Vermouth , 31st August 10:02 pm
BioShock is joy. From the moment I got BioShock, I was either playing the game, eating, sleeping or waiting to get back to playing it. The game is somewhat difficult to classify as it straddles the line between three genres. The guys at 2K Games would insist that it is a first person shooter for marketing purposes, but it’s also drawing on elements of role-playing and survival horror. The story, so often the bad news with respect to a shooter, is fantastic. Furthermore this game is presented in the most amazing way any next-gen game has yet presented itself. The gameplay has been a wonderfully emergent playground that allows you to mix genetic magic, conventional weapons and a weaponized environment in wonderful ways.
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By Head881 , 24th August 6:20 pm
I recently received Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for my birthday a few days past, from a close friend of mine.
I’m not going to play it. Well… I’m not going to play it yet. Instead, I’m going to wait until the middle of the Fall season to start playing it. I’ll start playing Castlevania when the leaves begin to change from green to orange, amber, and crimson. I’m going to wait to play Castlevania until the days hours become further encroached by night’s grip. I’ll play Castlevania when the last of the year’s warm days are laced with winter’s cool winds.
A cursory glance at Wikipedia reveals that there has been a Castlevania game released almost annually for at least one of the available consoles or handhelds for the last twenty years. While I haven’t looked at every release to date, at least the last several have been released sometime in the Fall, near or on Halloween.
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