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Having not followed GRID 2 leading up to its release, the first thing that stood out to me on launching the game for the first time appeared as early as the title screen. The game’s name is presented as “#GRID2”. This may seem like a small detail, but it near enough sums up the overall philosophy of Codemaster’s latest racer. After impressing fans with a race in Chicago, you’re flung into the world of professional…
The stealth genre is one that, until recently, I didn’t really get on with. When playing a stealth game I want to feel like a badass ninja, skulking in the shadows and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Instead, most stealth games usually cause me to cower in a dark corner for minutes at a time, until finally I slowly make my way to the next safe spot, praying to high heaven that I won’t be seen by a guard…
Lara Croft is no longer the cocky, cold-blooded killer she once was. After she’s forced to make her first kill in the new reboot of the Tomb Raider series, she doesn’t spout a cheeky one-liner, instead she trembles falls to her knees, sobbing in horror at what she has done. Moments like this lend a humanity to a character whose personality, in the past, has been mostly one-dimensional. It also sums up the new…
It is safe to say that Sleeping Dogs has had a difficult journey up to it's release. The open-world crime game originally began development in 2008 as part of Activision's True Crime series. It was subsequently canceled 3 years into development, and it seemed that the game would never make it to store shelves. Then in August 2011, publisher Square Enix announced that they would be picking up the title under the new…
It seems that rebooting franchises has become just as popular a trend with game publishers as it is in Hollywood, with Fifa Street, Tomb Raider, Syndicate, Twisted Metal, Devil May Cry and arcade-snowboarding game SSX all making a comeback in 2012. SSX is one reboot that brings some welcome changes to the series but loses some of its character and style in the process. It has been 5 years since the last SSX game was…
If I had to use one word to sum up The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the sequel to Bethesda's critically acclaimed 2006 game Oblivion, that word is epic. Although to use only one word to describe a game so large and detailed seems almost unfair. You can quite easily spend 100 hours exploring Skyrim’s rich Nordic world discovering bustling towns populated by chattering pedestrians, joining secret guilds, crafting potions,…
In 2000, Ion Storm released the sci-fi RPG Deus Ex, it gained universal acclaim for its highly varied gameplay and deep storyline, packed with conspiracy and intrigue. It is still remembered today as one of the greatest games of all time. Now, over a decade since the first Deus Ex game, and with new developer Eidos Montreal at the helm, does Deus Ex: Human Revolution live up to the legacy set by the original? Set in…
There are moments in Bioshock that will live long in the memory, such as the first time I saw the spooky underwater city of Rapture from the safety of the bathysphere , or being forced to take part in Sander Cohen's sick games. There are fewer stand-out moments like these in Bioshock 2 , but the moments that do stick with you are so well conceived and unbelievably well-executed, that they surpass those of the…
