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inFAMOUS finally comes to the PlayStation 4 with a new protagonist, a new city and new powers. You'll have a blast with Second Son providing you can get past the flat and brief nature of the side stuff and whether or not you find Delsin's charm to your taste. Goodbye Cole! And hello, Delsin! inFAMOUS: Second Son is set 7 years after inFAMOUS 2 , Conduits (the superhumans of the world) are feared, so much so, the…
Who are you? Why are you doing these things? Who are these strange figures cryptically talking to you? Why does this one guy work in every place I visit? Is any of this real? These are but a few questions you will ask Hotline Miami during your playtime and you'll seldom get some firm answers. Dennaton Games have created a brutal, violent, very stylish, somewhat strategic, top-down 'kill everyone on sight' game that…
After their recent ventures into turning the franchises of Back to the Future and Jurassic Park into Point and Click Adventure games , Telltale Games have decided to enter into the apocalyptic realm of The Walking Dead . Originally a series of comics and now a popular TV series , it seems now that the latest incarnation of the franchise is a series of adventure games split into 5 episodes starting off with Episode 1…
It’s safe to say in this day and age that shooters, whether they are 1 person or 3 person, have usually been a staple recipe for success, especially after the releases of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Gears of War. That was 4-5 years ago and now the market is flooded with shooters galore. Bulletstorm hopes to bring an over-the-top, super violent and foul mouthed romp in space to the proceedings and while…
Ever since Mass Effect 2 hit stores in January, we have been treated to a plethora of DLC. The latest iteration of that DLC is 'Lair of the Shadow Broker' containing a storyline involving old squad member and potential flame, Liara T'Soni' as she hunts for the mysterious 'Shadow Broker'; a powerful information dealer who has been feared throughout the galaxy and to this day remained anonymous. Clocking in at around…
Every year now the ‘Summer of Arcade’ hits Xbox LIVE with this year’s proceedings starting off with Limbo; a beautifully artistic puzzle game that is heralded as this year’s ‘Braid’. The game is gorgeous and the puzzles are challenging with a sense of dread and mystery permeating through the world, with its only drawback is that a £12/$15 price tag is a little steep for a 3 hour playthrough. Limbo begins with a boy…
DICE is mainly known for the popular multiplayer 1st person shooters, the Battlefield series. So it comes as a surprise that they had decided to make Mirror’s Edge; a free-running/parkour game all within 1st person camera intent on creating a fresh new innovative experience for gamers. Fortunately Mirror’s Edge manages to pull this off while looking, stylistically and graphically top notch, with an awesome theme…
Back in 2007 the 9th instalment in the Splinter Cell series which would see Sam Fisher go from grizzled spy to “Grizzly” in an attempt to reinvent the franchise with having Sam Fisher going rogue and putting an emphasis on the crowd control that Assassin’s Creed was at the time going to bring to the table. About a year and a half later the game went back to the drawing board and took a different yet familiar…
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a Capcom developed 3rd person shooter boasting big boss fights, walking tanks and ice cold temperatures. Is this a game that ploughs through the snow effortlessly or is it frozen in ice? Here is my review. Story The story to Lost Planet is that mankind can no longer sustain itself on Earth, since the planet has been ravaged by Global Warming, so the colonisation process begins when…
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts is the next instalment in the Banjo series, a 360 exclusive that has changed the core gameplay of the Banjo series from platforming, to vehicle based gameplay. Is this reimagining of a platforming classic a good thing? Or should it have stayed a timeless classic? Here is my review. Story The story of Banjo is simply this: Banjo and Kazooie have been loafing around binge eating pizzas…
inFamous is a highly anticipated PS3 exclusive from Sucker Punch, which lets you play out your hero or anti-hero fantasies in a post-apocalyptic city. Is this game set to shock your world? Here is my review. Story inFamous literally starts with you pressing the start button which activates an electrical explosion which destroys and warps most of the city (Well done you). The only thing left at ground zero is a…
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is an action adventure game for the PS3, with its blend of Gears of War's gunplay and Tomb Raider's platforming, is it able to find its place among the rest? Here is my review. Story The story of Uncharted starts with treasure hunter Nathan Drake on a boat in the middle of an ocean off the coast of Panama with an enthusiastic history journalist, Eleana Fisher. They are both there to…
