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Team Fortress 2 is the sequel the Mod for the Quake of a similiar name, sans the 2. The game is a first person shooter that is purely online and sets the Cutthrought Red Team against the despicable Blue team. The game features dozens of maps and a variety of gametypes(But doesnt feature any Deathmatch modes?). The maps are built with pre-assigned gametypes, this makes the maps more balanced and better designed for…
Red Alert 3 is the crazy sibling of the Classic RTS series Command and Conquer and Red Alert 3 lives upto that name, with superb gameplay, silly plot and voice acting and great unit design. The plot goes something like this- The Soviets are about to lose the cold war so they use a time machine to go back in time and kill Albert Einstein in order to gain Technological superiority over the Allies. This inadvertantly…
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is both sequel to Warrior Within and The end of the Sands of Time Trilogy. It combined the unique storytelling and character elements and enviroments that made Sands of Time great with the standout combat of Warrior Within. The story continues from the secret ending of Warrior Within, in which The Prince and Kaileena are both able to change their fates and kill the Dahaka they then…
Prince of Persia: Warrior within is the sequel to The Sands of time and the dark middle chapter in the Sands of Time Trilogy. The plot can be somewhat confusing if you have not played The Sands of Time. The story begins with the Prince being hunted by the Dahaka, a living embodiment of destiny. The Prince was supposed to die when he unleashed the Sands of Time and by changing the path of history has cheated his…
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a remarkable and enchanting game. It combined fluid visuals with engrossing storytelling and stellar level design to form a unique standard of game that is rarely achieved. The plot of the game follows the titular Prince of Persia, who is manipulated into unleashing the Sands of time which turn everyone in the palace the game is set in into horrible Sand Demons. The only…
Beat Hazard is a unique indie game that creates bullet hell shooter levels out of your music. Players take control of a small spaceship and take on hordes of enemy ships, asteroids and giant bosses that are dynamically generated from MP3's similiar to the indie game Audiosurf. The game is a blast to play with your music, it is easy to learn but very hard to master and its kinda hard to write a review when the game…
Lead and Gold is the new title from Indie developer FatShark and is a team based Multiplayer shooter in a western setting. It is a very similiar game to TF2 despite the change in perspective. Players can play a variety of game modes which are western twists on classic multiplayer gametypes, For example Shootout is Team Deathmatch. Players can choose between one of Four classes to play in the games strong array of…
Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid have always been the two stealth game franchises that went head to head in each console generation. In MGS4 Kojima, went for a more action focused game rather than stealth, Ubisoft has followed suit with Splinter Cell Conviction. The story sets Sam fisher as a rogue agent working against third echelon to find his daughter whom he believed dead. The story is actually fairly…
The original Fear was one of the key games that got me into First Person Shooter games, and was a very memorable Horror First Person shooter to boot. Fear 2 evolves and refines the gameplay with some success but loses the tactical and stylized gunplay that made the original so great. The story of Fear 2 starts a couple of hours prior to the ending of the original and has you playing a new character by the name of…
Call of Duty World at War is Treyarchs second attempt at a Call of Duty Game. After the disaster that was Call of Duty 3, they managed to Build a solid FPS, that overall can seem a bit derivative. The game uses the same engine as COD4 but is set in the classic Call of Duty World war 2 setting. Due to it using the same engine as Call of Duty 4 it seems very samey to its predecessor although it is significantly less…
The original left 4 dead holds some of my favorite gaming memories of all time. Me and my mates would scramble through each of the campaigns together and I swear the amount of time I spent in versus mode rivalled the amount of time I spent in WoW(read:lots). The sequel garnered quite a bit of bad press(locally at least) regarding the fact that the game would be censored for Aussie gamers. This turned me off buying…
Indigo Prophecy is the second game by Qantic Dream and could be described as the natural progression of the point and click adventure game. The game follows the story of a man named Lucas Cane who suddenly loses control of his own body and murders someone in a diner, after narrowly escaping a police officer at the diner the game switches your control over to two detectives(Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles) who are…
That title might be grabbing your attention and be urging you to say "But Ferginator GTA4 is the best open world game ever!!!" and to you i would say that the GTA series has never had any appeal to me, partially due to its juvenile approach to crime, whilst also trying to tell a serious story of criminals, thats not to say im a super serious gamer who dosen't want any humor in games as i loved Saints Row 2. Anyway…
Borderlands is a unique game, its contains lots of elements from First Person Shooters like Halo and has a setting very similiar to last years "Fallout 3" but at heart Borderlands is an Action RPG. The game sets you as one of four different vault hunters- The Hunter who specializes in sniping and commands a bloodwing pet which can be used to attack enemies. The Siren who has powerful elemental attacks and can…
Call of Duty 4 was one of the biggest games in recent years, it overhauled the way gamers played shooters online and provided a stellar single player campaign that could be compared with a rollercoaster. The original COD4 had the player changing characters and this is very much the same in MW2 with you spending the majority of the game playing as ‘Roach’ Sanderson who is a protégé to Captain ‘Soap’ Mctavish of Task…
Lets be honest here Licensed games have a bad reputation and superhero games have always been some of the worst when it comes to licensed games. Batman: Arkham Asylum is not a bad game, its not an average game, its a stellar game and one of the standout titles of the year. When B:AA was announced it was partially shunned for being announced around the time of "The Dark Knight" release in theaters and some assumed…
The Original Wolfenstein was the game that engineered the FPS genre and its modern iteration is not as revolutionary to the genre as the original but still a lot of fun. The game is set in World War 2 with you taking control of American Commando B.J. Bazkowitz, who is sent to a remote German city where Nazis are experimenting with a powerful energy source called the Black Sun. This sents him through a variety of…
The Original Call of Jaurez was a sleeper hit that slipped over most peoples radars but was generally well recieved, the question is wheather Bound in Blood can continue that trend and become the definitive next-gen Wild West Game. In Short, Yes. Bound in Blood easily suprasses many modern shooters and presents a cohesive gaming package that anyone who is a fan of Good Shooters can enjoy. The Story of Bound in Blood…
Trine is a 2D indie game from game developer FrozenByte and oozes prettyness from every part of this game, especially the levels...and the Character design....and the narrator...and the Aw hell the whole game is pretty! The Story in Trine has a wizard's, knight's and thief's souls become merged when they touch a mysterious object they later discover to be the Trine. This event causes them to be merged into one being…
DICE is known for its Battlefield Series on the PC and Consoles, its also known for the realism and excellent Multiplayer Present in almost all of their games, The Latter of which is present in their latest entry to the Battlefield Series, Heroes. The Previous Battlefield games have been heavy on realism and high quality graphics, Battlefield Heroes ditches these in exchange for a cartoony art style and arcadey type…
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Far cry 2 is a difficult game to classify, on a base level it is a first person shooter but is also greatly enchanced and influenced by open world games like Elder Scrolls and GTA. It also blurs the line between PC and Consoles by Having Collectables (usually a console gamer thing) and a dynamic open world (usually a pc gamer thing). It is also unique in the fact that as a sequel, it shares nothing with its…
Quake 3 is The Grandfather of todays popular Shooters, all your Halos, Call of Dutys and Counter Strikes would never have happened if Quake 3 was never made, and on top of all that gaming signifigance the game is totally awesome! The Gameplay in Quake 3 is A Shooter at its Purest it features 9 Unique and Perfectly Balanced Weapons as well as 4 Game Modes that have become standard in Todays Shooters, the game is very…
Giants: Citizen Kabuto(Henceforth Referred to as GCK) is a hybrid game that merges elements of Open World and Third Person Shooter Games With Real Time Stratagy games to create a game experience that you will never be able to experience again. GCK follows the story of three races, The Meccryn- These are the a group of British Space Marines who rely on weaponry and Cool Jetpacks. The Sea Reapers - These Mystical…
Psychonauts is a Brilliant and Original action adventure game from the mind of Tim Schafer, who is known for creating games with great stories that are wrapped in well designed gameplay and this trend continues in Psychonauts. In Psychonauts you take control of Raz, a young psychic who runs away from his dad to visit Whispering Rock Summer Camp for Psychics and Races to Become a Psychonaut and Discover the secret of…
Once upon a time, there was a game by the name of System Shock 2. It was a hybrid game that succesfully merged RPG, adventure, horror and FPS game elements to create one of the best games of all time. Unfortunately the game didn't sell very well and the company that made the game went out of Buisness and the people who worked there split into two groups. Half of them Went to make a game by the Name of Bioshock, this…
Before i start let me say one thing - I Love Ghostbusters, i adore the films and was especially exited about the game because it was set up as the third movie. The game plays exactly how you would expect with you playing as a new recruit of the Ghostbusters, you're able to interact with all the characters from the films who all have brilliant voice acting and an excellent script, all these Elements are ruined by the…
Radical Entertainments last game was Hulk:Ultimate Destruction, it was a criminally underplayed game that had you playing the Incredible Hulk in a GTA style open world, the game gave you a dynamically changing world and a nigh on invincible character to destroy it as. In Prototype these elements are expanded upon as this time Radical Are not restricted by a license, they have created their own Anti-Hero Character in…
Bioware is primarily known for two games- Balders Gate- This game series set a new standard in the fantasy RPG world. KOTOR- Primarily known as the best Star Wars game ever made. As great as these two games are, They and Bioware have been limited by these licenses for a long time, so they decided to bring there great approach to game design to an Original title set in an Original Universe, The result of this is…
Prince of Persia is Ubisofts second reboot of the Prince of Persia Franchise and innovates in more ways than its predecessors, with superb design and a unique graphics style Prince of Persia is an experience for everyone. The Story of Prince of Persia has nothing to do with the previous games short of a few references and involves the new Prince who is a lonely traveller in a desert searching for his donkey, he…
So another year goes by, another Superhero movie game comes out, this time its X-Men Origins Wolverine and it succeeds primarily because it does what no video game has done before.... Have Wolverines claws kill people. In the Official Game of the recently released movie you play as Wolverine in two storylines that run parallel to each other and use your claws to tear foes into several bloody bite sized peices. The…
Plants Vs Zombies is Popcap games latest take on the tower defence genre, in which you play a gardener who must defend his home from a lovable horde of zombies. The game retains standard tower defence elements such as timed waves and varied enemy types but PVZ takes these elements and does them in style. All plants cost Solar Power which will drop from the sky during the day but can also be produced by certain…
Cryostasis :The Sleep of Reason is a European First Person Adventure game which has you taking the role of a Meteorologist who is sent to visit a nuclear icebreaker known as the North Wind. The game has elements of survival horror to it, from the scary monster designs to the eerie background noise that immerses you in the dark, cold and heartless world of Cryostasis. The North wind has broken down for unknown…
Okay ill be honest, expectations of this game for me were at subterranean levels and i think i can assume the same for anyone reading this, but beneath the very crappy exterior is an above average Devil May Cry clone. X-blades is an Anime styled action game in the vein of Devil May Cry or God of War, with fast paced frenetic combat and upgradable abilities and epic bosses. The story of X-Blades follows a female…
Call of Duty 4 modern warfare is a first person shooter developed by Infinity Ward that brings the Call of Duty series from the stale WW2 Setting to the fresh and exiting world of Modern Warfare. The Single player portion of the game has follows an SAS trooper named "Soap" and a American Marine named Paul Jackson, the game swaps between the two soldiers perspectives every couple of levels which keeps the game…
I'm Relatively late to the Watchmen Party having only read the book for the first time in February this year, so the Watchmen game was looking very interesting especially since the game was a brawler. The Plot of the game follows off a throwaway line in the Book/Movie with Rorshach and Nite Owl going after the escaped Criminal Underboss with the story presented in Watchmen Motion Comic-esque form although the story…
My Expectations for Resident Evil 5 were pretty average when i first heard of it, but at that point i had not played a Resident Evil game before, after getting into the series and seeing the trailers before the games release , i felt i was now ready....to shoot some (not)zombies. So the game has you playing as recurring character of the series "Chris Redfield" on a mission to investigate bio terrorism in Africa,…
My Expectations for Resident Evil 5 were pretty average when i first heard of it, but at that point i had not played a Resident Evil game before, after getting into the series and seeing the trailers before the games release , i felt i was now ready....to shoot some (not)zombies. So the game has you playing as recurring character of the series "Chris Redfield" on a mission to investigate bio terrorism in Africa,…
Braid is an Indie game developed by Johnathan Blow, and at first glance may look like a platformer but is actually a Deep Puzzler that will frustrate and amaze. Braid is centered around the main character Tim who is searching for his lost love, and the story is presented in optional text. The key to Braid is its puzzles which are all based around using time travel, Tim has an unlimited ability to rewind time and…
A good deal of people believe Demigod is basically DOTA (Defence of the Ancients) in retail form but it actually has several key differences that i feel make it a better game. Now for those who haven't heard heard of it Defence of the Ancients is a custom map for Warcraft 3 that revolves around players controlling a single hero which can be leveled up and customized, players must then work together to destroy the…
Initially it wasn't looking so good, the game continuously crashed and was riddled with glitches making it all but unplayable, however i persevered and managed to fix the crashes and most of the bugs and was in return given one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life. Fallout 3 is an Open world RPG by Bethesda Game Studios who are known mainly for their Elder Scrolls Series, the game is the sequel to the…
I had heard about Max Payne through a friend so i picked up the shareware version online, a couple of days later i was hours into the First part of the full game. Max Payne is an Action game in which you play as the titular Max Payne, a new york cop who lost his wife and child to crazed junkies and is infiltrating a Mafia Crime family, when his closest friend Alex is Murdered and Max framed for the crime. This leads…
Iji is a freeware indie platformer/shooter/adventure/rpg hybrid from relatively unknown Daniel Remar and is better than many Retail titles. The story of Iji follows the titular Iji i girl who wakes up to find herself a cyborg and the earth being invaded by an evil alien race named the Tasen, the story progresses from there and the characters and story is suprisingly original, as Iji does not try to wipe out the…
I hadn't played the original Crysis due to not being able to run it, however to celebrate my new high powered gaming computer i picked up Crysis:Warhead. The game follows one the characters from the original Crysis named Psycho who is a wise cracking Brit, The game takes you through a story that runs parallel to the events of the original game. I haven't Played the original Far Cry either so i had no previous…
I as of writing this review have not played Resident Evil 2, i have however played the original Resident Evil. The Original Resident Evil ranks as my 10th Favorite game of all time so i was looking forward to this game. So First of all Resident Evil 3 is NOT a very player friendly game, There is no Tutorial and the game has a terrible control scheme on the PC. Anyway in Resident Evil 3 you play as Jill Valentine one…
Whoa.... I've just finished System Shock 2 and can easily call it one of the greatest games of all time, so Whoa.... Anyway let me lay out the general gist of SS2, basically you play as a unnamed soldier on a (too) simple mission to escort another ship named the Von Braun... and then you wake up out of a cyro-sleep and everyone is either dead or a mutant. i won't go any further about the plot because its really good…
Dawn of War 2 is a new beginning for the RTS series based on the Games Workshop franchise. Whilst the original focused on massive armies and battle in the Warhammer 40k universe, The new game focuses on smaller squads facing off against overwhelming odds. Dawn of War 2 is unique in that the multiplayer and single player portions of the game work and play very differently. The single player is now focused on the…
I've been playing Left 4 Dead for several months now and can easily say it is one of the best FPS games i have ever played, It is so well designed and melds so well that it creates a fantastic single and multiplayer experience. I am a big fan of stories in games and the great thing about Valve stories has not been the stories themselves but Valves unique way of presenting them and this is continued in Left 4 Dead…
The last couple of Spiderman games have been pretty stale with "Friend or Foe" and "Battle for New york" but Web of Shadows seemed to have everything in place for a fantastic spiderman game, With a great combat system, comic worthy storyline and a giant and dynamicly changing city. The plot of Spiderman Web of shadows has Venom returning to new york and converting the populace of The City into a deadly symbiote army…
