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Saying "the best Action RPG I've played all year" is, in 2008 at least akin to saying "the best poo I had when I was suffering from gastric flu" but Too Human has the rather depressing honour of being just that. Too Human is a futuristic action RPG based on North Mythology with beautiful cut scenes and fast, addictive gameplay mired by controls that were evidently decided on by someone playing the 360 holding the…
When it comes to a game that's over a year old now, especially one that at the time was so hyped, there is little for me to say when it comes explaining what the game's about. For those who have been living under a rock, Assassins Creed sees you taking the role of master-assassin Altair, a Saracen during the period of the crusades. Set against the backdrop of King Richard and Saladin battling for control of the Holy…
Banjo Kazooie Review Ten years ago I was a huge fan of Banjo Kazooie, the bear and bird who since have gone on to star in several other titles on a variety of formats. Their first adventure arrived on the N64 to rave reviews and many people hailing it as one of the greatest plat formers ever, and they certainly were not wrong. Now it's 2009 and replaying the title after all these years has been a great nostalgia…
Introduction So as I review the second game in the Shadow Hearts series you've already seen the score I have given it. It really is that good, in fact now I have experienced everything the game has to offer (yes I did everything) I can honestly say it's the greatest JRPG ever made. It's that good. Really. Seriously buy it if you don't believe me! Story It's a year or so after the events of the first game following…
Introduction The first Fable was a good game, and fortunately so is this next instalment in the series, the main issue with both these titles arises from one thing, their creator. Peter Molyneux is as most of the gaming world has realised by this point extremely good at over-hyping his titles to impossible levels and then fail to actually deliver. Yes Fable 2 isn't a bad game, but after all of the hype it's clearly…
The days since I was a big fan of shooters have long since gone by, none of the recent gen of shooters particularly impressed me, Perfect Dark Zero wasn't bad but not a patch on the original, Gears Of War was all right but certainly didn't leave an impression on me and Call Of Duty has outstayed it's welcome. Now along comes Jericho a game I decided to try based souley on watching a "let's play" on youtube that…
For fan's of the series you can't really fault Silent Hill Origins. The game has everything in it that made the original and it's sequels so popular. The storyline may not quite be up to scratch with the originals but it fits well enough with in the series and delivers enough twitching monstrosities, fog, atmosphere and bloody rooms to be Silent Hill in every sense of the word. Unfortunately this is perhaps where…
Dark Messiah for those of you not in the know, is an action heavy game which couples lots of combat with a highly simplistic RPG style levelling up system. The 360 version subtitled "Elements" has a few additions over the PC original, none of them special and this may as well be the same game released quite a while ago albeit for the cost of a new game. It recived an awful review here on Gamespot and while it's not…
Read the full review Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements
Lost Planet to put it quite bluntly is one of the worst titles I have played this year, and one responsible for more frustration than any other. The myriad of flaws in the game come together to create a highly frustrating poorly construed third person shooter that seems to be making an attempt to return to the old school days of shoot em ups and failing miserably by not really delivering on the fun. Lost Planet…
I've never been into PoP of the franchise, the early originals passed me by and when I was introduced to 3D PoP games with "The Sands Of Time" series, the frustrating difficulty levels made me feel like the game had abandoned all sense of wanting to be entertaining and was merely there to be as irritating as possible. So you can understand it was with an air of scepticism I approached the new PoP game, the first in…
It's a strange time to have just finished Assasins Creed 2, a year after its release and with Brotherhood now on the shelves. It's taken me a year to complete after being sidetracked by other games but the 20 or so hours I have spent playing it have definately been enjoyable ones. Assasins Creed 2 does do well in developing all aspects of the original, AC1 was often said to be very repetetive and AC2 does it's best…
Let's begin this review by dimissing the myth that Fallout: New Vegas is just a huge expansion for Fallout 3. It isn't. The game in my opinion is vastly superior in terms of it's structure, map design and how immersive the game is. Don't get me wrong I did enjoy Fallout 3 but I didn't enjoy it enough to finish it or spend more than 40 hours wandering around the ruins of D.C. , after finishing New Vegas after 70…
I am actually not a huge fan of the Resident Evil series, I've played bits and pieces of the games but never finished one and while I intend to get around to it at some point this was the first title in the franchise I played to end. I am vaguely aware about the Resi mythos but as a rule some of the characters and events in this game which takes scenarios from Resi 0,1,3 and it's own unique content were foreign to…
Fatal Frame has always been one of my favourite horror franchises, both the first and second game told a good spooky story with unique combat and extremely fear-inducing ghosts. Fatal Frame 3 picks up the pieces from the earlier games in the franchise by being set directly after the events of the first two games, throwing in new and old characters, a new story of rituals gone wrong and a multitude of new camera…
