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(I originally posted this review on my lil' portfolio site but figured I post it here as well for giggles and such) The world of indie development has seen no shortage of great debuts over the last half a dozen or so years but that didn't stop Supergiant Games' 2011 game Bastion from sticking out as a bloody great debut for a lot of people. It showed the team understood how to use art and sound design to paint…
Its a real shame that the new Wolfenstein game doesn't quite live up to the potential of it's best story and character moments. What a weird thing to read in 2014, eh? It's an honest sentiment though, believe it or not. It's maybe a little disingenuous to so completely pre-judge a game because of it's franchises past but Wolfenstein: The New Order really does attempt to make genuine heartfelt strides forward in…
As budgets get larger and the ambitions of the industry’s most prominent developers tend towards the focused and cinematic its almost inevitable that we begin to compare games to film. Actually calling a game an 'interactive movie' though is an observation some might take as derogatory, it might put them off. However in the case of this game I think that comparison is what makes it so novel. The best part of…
Out of the 2007 "Orange Box" package the most impressive part was portal. A first person shooter with a twist. Your character instead of being equipped with some generic machine gun is in fact equipped with "The portal gun" an innovative weapon that allows the player to fire two portals, one orange, one blue. You walk in the blue one you come out the orange one and vice versa, it's a very simple concept. However,…
When I first popped in my (RENTAL) copy of Terminator salvation I was stunned by how average it was, in my vain attempt to form some sort of review I just kept going "Its average, but I can't just say its average and leave it at that!" But annoyingly thats all I can say about Salvation. The gameplay is well done but not interesting. The graphics decent but bland. Everything is just ok. And that is literally al lI…
