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All reviewsL.A. Noire2011
5 out of 5 starsThe late 1940’s are such a fascinating period of modern history. The Second World War was over and most of the soldiers who survived the horrors of the conflict had returned home to their families, but there was still unease in the air, not least because the Cold War was just beginning to hot up. The Second Red Scare in the form of McCarthyism was taking root; with the trial of possible Soviet spy Alger Hiss in 1948…
Deus Ex: Human Revolution2011
4 out of 5 starsIt has been over a decade since the first Deus Ex rolled onto our computer screens and made us think long and hard about the way we approach player choice in video games. Before and since then, only a few games have managed to come close to giving the player the illusion of free choice (namely the likes of BioShock and Fallout 3), but almost none have successfully delivered an experience where your decisions display…
Fallout: New Vegas2010
5 out of 5 starsThe post-apocalypse is such a contradiction in terms. The very idea of there being a post-apocalypse should be nonsense, since the apocalypse it meant to be “the end of things”. However, over the past few decades a rich seem of post-apocalyptic fiction has grown and matured, and the Fallout series has been leading the way in terms of video games in this field. In 2008, Fallout 3 brought the much-loved role-playing…
Super Meat Boy2010
4 out of 5 starsSuper Meat Boy is, very simply, psychotic. That’s the only way I can even hope to start describing it. It was clearly designed by total sadists with the blackest of hearts whose days must usually be filled with reading about how to make cadavers in slaughterhouses be neatly and efficiently sliced by rotating blades, or instructions on how make normal people start foaming at the mouth. Let’s get this straight right…
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All articlesMemory Motel - Remembering Ryan Davis
Jul 9, 2013
Well, before Monday I was going to do a blog all about how I’d seen The Rolling Stones over the weekend and about how Andy Murray had won Wimbledon and about how I’d gone to Rezzed at the NEC in Birmingham last month and about all the games I’d been playing. And then this happened . Now, we are all citizens of the Internet, and like many of you I never had the chance to meet Ryan Davis in real...
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Or: 2012 in Review
Dec 31, 2012
Disclaimer: My yearly awards include all games I actually played this year and not necessarily just games which were released this year. Best Gameplay/gbrading’s Game of the Year Dishonored : If you had asked me in January what Dishonored was, I wouldn’t have known. Before E3 this year, I’d never heard of the game before. Then E3 came along and it had an impressive showing. Finally, I read Gian...
On My Own I Built a Bridge, Or: 2011 in Review
Dec 27, 2011
Hey Giant Bomb! Hey blog! Long time no see! Seeing as I posted my roundup last year, I felt it only right to do the same this year. In 2011, I think I must have played easily double the number of games I played in 2010. This, despite the fact that I had left university in 2010 and this year obtained full-time employment and thus my time for playing games dropped significantly. Perhaps it was be...
No Expectations (Or: 2010 in Review)
Dec 28, 2010
Hey Giant Bomb! Been a while since I've posted a blog, so he's the end of year roundup: The customary selection of the very finest (and the very worst) 2010 had to offer for me when it came to playing games. As a reminder, this is my roundup of the games which I actually purchased and played during this year , and does not necessarily include games which were actually released this year. Nevert...
An Email to 2K Games
Oct 10, 2010
Reborn of the Ocean To: Christoph Hartmann, Managing Director, 2K Games. Complaint concerning bad business practice; BioShock 2 PC Dear Mr Hartmann, I have been a player, and I must confess a fan of your company's video games for quite some time. Indeed, I have very fond memories of the games from your now consolidated developer PopTop Software, such as Railroad Tycoon and Tropico. Since the re...
Please Excuse My Face
Apr 11, 2010
Feel the Payne! Character faces have always been one of the hardest things to accurately portray in games. A good, realistic face can involve you in the storyline and make you care about the character, whilst looking at someone whose lips look like bricks and with eyes like a dead fish can totally distance you from the plot. Much has already been said on the subject of the proposed theory of th...
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