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Imagine my enthusiasm when I booted up yet another movie tie-in, this time a third-person shooter. Even worse, it’s based on a film that’s all about time travel, and anyone who knows me can tell you that I’m not a fan of time travel, because nine out of ten times, the concept is implemented such that it’s riddled with plot holes. Congratulations, A Sound of Thunder . You’re a statistic. Upon starting a new game, we…
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom has plenty of personality. The black-and-white, grainy silent movie-look, the playful rhyming verses before each puzzle, and the eponymous protagonist who has a mighty obsession with pie --all of this combines well to create a charmingly distinct title, not just on the Xbox Live Arcade marketplace but on all platforms. It's more than that, though; it's also a puzzle game with…
You can tell Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened tries to stand out from the host of obscure adventure games, especially when the plot tells of our favourite Victorian detective travelling across the globe to stop crazy cultists from summoning this: Cthulhu – a fat, green, demony being that revels in slaughtering humans. Or, as Stephen King so elegantly puts it: a gigantic, tentacle-equipped, killer vagina from beyond…
