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Valve hyped up Portal 2 massively and were talking about it like some epic game with a long story and long coop. They did the whole ARG thing which I didn't take part in but they kept allowing people to spend their money to unlock the game early. Only what we didn't know was the task in hand would take almost as long as the release date any ways. So I understand why people who bought that package of mediocre games…
This game can be fun but I can't recommend it to anyone because it is too unstable. The server browser is probably one of the worst I've come across, missing basic features like a server queue and it takes ages to load. The game crashes alot and it runs poorly on Dual core systems, which most people have these days. There has been so many problems with the online server, disconnecting you a lot of the time and Punk…
Captain Forever is a really simple flash game, similar to asteroids but with enemy ships. The addictive part comes when you destroy and enemy ship, the parts you haven't destroyed with your gun fire float about in space and then you attach them yo your ship. As a result your ship becomes bigger and to suit, you fight bigger and bigger ships. It reminds me of flow or the first section of Spore in many ways but just…
Flight Control is a simple game where you have to direct aircraft to the runway and obviously as time goes on more and more flights come in and it becomes harder. The more aircraft you get in, the higher your score and like any great Iphone game there are online scoreboards to compete with. Not only that but there is online play where you share air traffic control duties with your friends and have to pass off…
I love this game because it is what an Iphone game should be about. You can play for five minutes while waiting for a train or in a cafe or you can spend hours on the game at home. I hate to think how many hours I put in this game when I said "I'll have one game" and then I ended up trying again and again. Just so easy to say "I'll just have one more try" and then waste the day away. Very simple, you just have to…
I've been playing games since I was a young boy with my dad, watching him on the PC playing this Stealth fighter game from 1987. I remember the FPS genre popping up in the early 90's and they were very crude and not that fun to play. The first FPS that came along which changed everything was Half-Life. It just had such an amazing atmosphere, controls and story telling that other games in the genre didn't have. Now…
Ever since the first one I've been trying to like them because they're massively popular. However I have just never gotten into them or their multiplayer. My problem with the single player is it is too linear, you never really have control and you're never able to move at your own pace. Other games like Half-Life are linear but theres lots of areas to go and explore a bit and find east eggs. I never really feel like…
I love Torchlight and it is one of my favorite games of 2009 and probably the best action RPG since Diablo 2. Just feels like the only game since that captured what Blizzard did so well but improving upon on. The only reasons why I can't give the game five stars is because theres no Coop and theres no compelling story. I do however think the foundations are in place to create the lore and universe to draw you in to…
I loved Star Wars as a kid with the original movies and I can watch them again and again now, even my friends kids can watch them and they're just timeless classics. However ever since the new movies the Star Wars franchise has gone so down hill with utter crap like hundreds of poor games and the Clone Wars series. I picked up this game for the PC wanting a Star Wars story I could immerse myself into with great…
I love the Sandbox Editor (even though it's very buggy) because it's like a mix between Garry's Mod and an SDK. However other than this Crysis doesn't offer much and people go on about the graphics but Crytek didn't put them to much use. The character models and faces for example are really ugly and just look horrible. Other than the first face you see looking at you the rest just look really plastic and fake and…
I have yet to meet anyone in real life that actually likes KoToR or has even heard of it. When I speak to friends who have played it they all find it really crap and quit after 5 mins. I did the esact same thing when I first played it back when it was launched for the PC. I just couldn't get used to the combat and found there to be too many problems. So I bought it off Steam and spent the past month or so trying to…
I really love Half-Life and the Half-Life 2 series but theres no doubt about it that this is Valve's weakest Half-Life game to date. I really like alot of the parts with Episode One but it just doesn't feel Epic like a Half-Life game should and theres no vehicles. Theres lots of amazing cinematic moments from the start with Dog throwing you into the Citadel to the End on the train. However theres also lots of…
I loved the first Red Faction because it was like the Half-Life for the consoles and then the second one wan't that great. So I though the third would be really crap seeing all the trailers and the change of direction. However the game is actually quite fun but only purely because of it's destrution. The game doesn't really do much else and can get really repetitive like imagine GTA on Mars but without kool story…
While I've watched friends play Resident Evil games I have never really gave them a shot. The controls always seemed really poor and the story never interested me and everything just feels very generic. Resident Evil 5 doesn't change anything since 4 apart from adding coop which isn't fun and specially not when you're on your own. The Resident Evil story has become so bloated and stupid I don't know anyone who would…
I've never liked Batman or the whole super hero comic book thing in general because when I was younger it was for geeks. However recent films like Spiderman and Batman have come along and turned that on it's head and it's acceptable to like these things today. This Batman isn't like the comics I've seen or the films but seems to be a blend of the two and I must say I prefer it to anything that I've seen. I mean the…
I really loved the start of the game and it had such a great opening and atmosphere, kinda wished the ride around the city was abit longer like Half-Life on the tram but ok. It just has a really great feel to it and makes me really want an RPG based in the city before the downfall and leading upto the events of Bioshock. However after the atmosphere the game doesn't really do much else to impress me. I think the…
I really like Oblivion and it feels very much like a GTA Fantasy game or a single player MMORPG. Theres lots of depth to the game and It's the first game I remember where I actually had fun doing side quests. I really love the atmosphere to the game aswel and some people say it's bland fantasy but I see it as more based on real world medieval with a twist. Now that twist is instead of the tales being myth they're…
I havn't got much to say about this game because the only thing I like about it is the online 1 vs 1 competitive play. However the game doesn't offer anything else like theres no single player story to suck you in there. Even if they made that for the next game I wouldn't be interested anyways cause the characters of the game are really lame and say some of the dumbest things just before and after fights. I'm not a…
Read the full review That type of game you'll play every once in awhile.
I'm from the UK and far too often are we playing the Americans and I think it's great to be playing the British. I don't think the SAS and the British army get enough credit and nice it's to see one of the best games this generation give them the lime light for once. This game is just a real linear cinematic experience from start to finish and it never gets stale. Normally FPS games are a one trick Pony but Call of…
If you loved Rainbow Six one to three or you love anyother one shot kill tactical shooters and you havn't played America's Army before, then you'll want to give this game a try. I didn't even like the previous American Army games but this one just feels more intense, more real and just has amazing sound effects. You will be ducking for cover with the amazing sound effects of the bullets flying over your head and…
Nah I'm only messing I first heard of this game because I ws drunk round my mate sand listening to Giantbomb Podcast and my mate torrented it and installed. We thought it would be a drunken laugh really and at that stage anything is fun. However Rapelay was not because it feels like it was made by one guy in his spare time as a joke. Firstly everything is in English with the patch and the game still doesn't make…
I've been tyring to complete this game since it came out for the PC and theres nothing really wrong with it, not many bugs and it's functional but it just isn't fun to play. I asked myself many times, where is the gameplay? Alot of the time playing it's just run to this person to talk to them. The problem is the story isn't interesting and nore is dialogue which is poorly written and acted. Theres these weird kinds…
World of Warcraft is a very well made mmorpg but for me who has been playing these games since Ultima Online, I find it to be lacking features and I'm not happy with the changes Blizzard have made to the game since Battlegrounds. I say this because WoW is an online world where the fun to be had is dependant on other people in the world. You'll want to be grouping and having fun playing with other people right from…
I'm a really big Half-Life fan because all the games have been amazing and this episode is no different. Now you may wonder why I've only rated this 4/5 when I'd rate Half-Life and Half-Life 2 and 5/5 and that is because for me them original Half-Life games are epics and thats how a Half-Life game should feel. The Episodes while good, just lack that epic feel and that fresh new engine, amazing graphics feel. Now for…
I bought the retail package as my mate asked me to pick him up a copy so he can make another account and I thought I'd get one for myself and play along. However I got into the game and he and my other 2 real life firends who play also never logged in apart from just to switch skills around. So I had to find people to play with and this is where the game stumbles for me. I tried several corps in the game but most of…
I never got into Halo back in the day because I got halfway through and then just stopped and I could never remember anything from the game so I wondered why I quit. I got out my copy that I bought back in 2003 and decided to give the game a try again. The game started off really well and I really loved fighting The Covenant because the AI is just so damn good in the game. However the problems with the game appeared…
I've played all the Burnouts before and I really loved them because it was just a series of easy to navigate menus and if you just wanted to race you could do that straight away with your friends. However with burnout Paradise they've added this over complex open world where as a new player who just wants to race with his friends has to learn everything about the game first and is lost. I just want a linear track…
The game is beautiful and infact it is THE best looking game in 2008 but I waited out for the PC version. I think it had ALOT of potential like Left 4 Dead but also like Left 4 Dead it feels rushed and lacking much of anything but charm. The idea of the game was great and I really love the look of it and then they had to go and ruin it with these stupid poorly animated cartoons and a bad story. I wish that frigging…
(EU version) I've tried Lotro once before and I didn't like it but so much time has gone by and a new expansionw as released I thought I'd give it another go. Nothing from what I've seen has changed at all since I played played with the same tutorial and all of that so it was pretty boring going through that again because it is linear and once you've done them starting areas once you wont wanna do them again... or…
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It's just a shame that Left 4 Dead isn't great itself yet. I want to really like Left 4 Dead but it's lacking in content and has a few issues which badly break the game right now. For example if you do not have friends who can play it with you then I wouldn't really bother with Left 4 Dead because it can be so hard to find a good game that it'll leave a bad taste in your mouth and wondering why everyone likes it.…
I was thinking to myself if I should mark the game down for the technical problems and things missing from the PC port and at first I was really unhappy with the game. My problem wasn't with performance but the fact that the game is missing alot of things we want in a PC port and had alot of annoying things like GFWL and the Social club. However the core game is just so good it makes up for all the games downfalls.…
Everything about Brood was is the same for me as the original Starcraft game, as I don't play the multiplayer... and why not? Don't fix what ain't broken. Again you play each faction and the storyline advances as you go through each faction starting with Protoss and ending with the Zerg. I thought it was a fitting end to the original Starcraft and what struck me is how well Blizzard can wrap up a storyline and well…
We all know that blizzard takes inspiration from other things and then makes them better and while Warcraft was really a better version of Warhammer, Starcraft is a sci-fi version of Warcraft while taking from Warhammer 40k and Aliens. What hit me was how much it did feel like Warcraft in Space which is what Blizzard said it would be and how much it played like Warcraft. I think Blizzard really just takes what works…
It's becoming a running trend with Blizzard games and me that I think they have great stories and CG sequences but the gameplay just isn't that good. I'm there left wondering why sooo many people love Blizzard because a great story doesn't make a game and make it any less annoying to play. I dunno they're all dated games so I'll wait for SC2 and D3 to cast my judgement on Blizzard but so far i think they should make…
It's becoming a running trend with Blizzard games and me that I think they have great stories and CG sequences but the gameplay just isn't that good. I'm there left wondering why sooo many people love Blizzard because a great story doesn't make a game and make it any less annoying to play. I dunno they're all dated games so I'll wait for SC2 and D3 to cast my judgement on Blizzard but so far i think they should make…
It's very rare that a sequel to something soo beloved as Half-Life was comes along and actually tops it. The Godfather 2, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back and now Half-Life 2. When shown that amazing demo at E3 of 2003 which was 20 odd mins long, the Source Engine was way ahead of anything else around and just blew everyone away. It made the hype just sky rocket and everyone was amazing at the physics and facial…
I have to say that I didn't like one thing about this game other than the ambient music was kool. I picked up the two Diablo games from my friends to give them a shot as I've never played thme before. I'm kinda on a Blizzard roll right now as they have the Warcraft expansion out and Starcraft 2 + Diablo 3 coming soon so I wanted to get up to scratch on the storylines. I loved Warcraft 3 so I thought I'd give Diablo…
Most people hate on Counter Strike: Source because they're used to the original Counter Strike and hate the graphical update and changes made. I however think all the changes made were for the better and is just more fun than the original because of the graphical updates. The maps are more rich and the movement feels more natural and aiming for the areas on the models is much better because with the better graphics…
So I couldn't wait but to find out what happens between Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft, so I played this game all through the day and finally completing it just now and I have to say it rounded up the story well. There are some things I don't understand still but that isn't Warcraft 3's fault but just me having to play WOW to see what happened. It makes me wonder though how they'll ever make a Warcraft 4 seeing as…
I came into Warcraft 3 not knowing what to expect other than it being Warcraft because I saw the WotLK trailer for WOW and thought that I had to see the story of Arthas. Now i'm not the biggest fan of RTS games and while I liked CoH and RA2 they were probably the only ones I've ever liked in my life and the problem I find with them is you eventually get to the point where you find out the most effective way to win…
If Portal was released on it's own then I don't think it would have gotten the praise it got. However because it was a great deal packaged in with Four or so other games then you see it as a bonus mini game thats quite good! My problem with Portal however is that, the game felt like a tutorial for the last level and it was really the last level where everything started to come together and just as you were getting…
I really don't understand why a different developer came in and tried to emulate Infinity Ward and copy COD4 in every way. Sure you have to keep some ties to the original game for fans but...... all they've done is create an inferior version and everyone will be back to COD4 in a week. I've never liked COD games and I've never liked MOH games because they feel far too linear, scripted and just restrictive to the…
I love playing TF2 because it's just sooo damn fun and I don't understand why it isn't more popular. what makes it soo special is theres 9 or so classes which are all unique with their own personalities and each one plays so differently that if you get bored you can just switch class and keep switching classes and just never get bored of the game because by the time you've gone through them all then you've forgotten…
Whats weird is I hated this game the first time I played it because it didn't have vehicles and it made you run round the underground system which felt like a grind and wasn't fun. I constantly got lost under there and didn't understand why I couldn't just open a door or climb through a window or over rubble to get to the other side, like you would in real life. I thought it was such a shame because the game opened…
I nearly didn't pick up Dead Space because I'm bored of the genre and thought it would be same old same old, for the most part it is. However Dead Space doesn't have the same annoying gameplay mechanics of the games it takes from like no wonky RE5 controls and it doesn't become boring like Doom 3 and the UI isn't all clunky like SS2. Sure the game lacks depth and it can get repetitive at times but it's a nice…
I've wanted to play Bully for years and finally I'm able to with the PC release of the game. However the port is so horrible and theres tons of glitches and quite often even with my beefy Rig the Framerate will become unplayable in pieces like the class room mini games or in certain indoor missions. I mean REALLY unplayable like 5 fps and I don't get it because the rest of the game runs smoothly, it's just these…
Finally Source gets it's Modern Combat mod and I really hope Valve get all their greatest mods and release them with their next Orange box type package or even buy out some of these mod teams. Team Insurgency is a developer that deserves to have Valve's praise because their game Insurgency is just fantastic and feels like it was made by pros. The game has some downfalls to it but you can't expect a free mod made by…
Read the full review Insurgency is a fantastic free Source mod!
Planetside is a really innovative game being one of the first and still the only true MMOFPS. In 2003 we hadn't seen anything like Planetside which was had 1000 people in 3 way battles per fully seamless islands. It combined ground foot soldier first person shooter gameplay along with vehicular combat that had aircrafts and ground vehicles such as tanks and vehicles that could travel through the water. I just…
