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F1 2010 is the new Formula One game from Codemasters, the same developers who bought us Grid, Dirt and the Toca series. Codemasters are obviously not new to the racing genre so when it was announced that they were working on an F1 game hopes were high, after all they knew their stuff. Unfortunately somewhere something went very wrong and the result is a buggy mess. Graphically the game does look good, not up to the…
Mafia 2 was a good game that suffered from a lack of content, yes the story was good but it had to be because there was absolutely nothing else to do in the game. You may wonder how on earth they took 8 years to develop a game that lasts 8 hours? Welcome to Jimmy's Vendetta, some of the content that was stripped from the original game so they could sell you it as DLC. PC gamers who have access to the games files…
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Mafia 2 is the sequel to the highly rated Mafia:The City of Lost Heaven. initially the game is set in 1943 before moving on later to 1951 and tells the story of Vito Scaletta, the son of Sicilian immigrants. The story is well written and for a change doesn't glamourise the Mafia, in fact Vito comes across as the tool of those with real power, someone who will do whatever his masters tell him to without question.…
Maybe I was expecting too much, I thought that maybe after the failure of the first game they'd make serious changes for Kane & Lynch 2, sadly I was wrong. When a game has as many faults as Kane & Lynch you go away and start over, sadly the people at Eidos thought if they added some god awful screen effects and a wobbly camera this would hide the crap underneath, unfortunately it doesn't. The addition of effects…
The original Just Cause was a exceptional game let down by a lack of things to do, repetition was the order of the day and while it was fun it also got a little tiresome after a while. The sequel is a huge improvement, now the game involves a lot of blowing things up and general destruction and we all know that never gets old. Love the View Graphically it's stunning, better than the first which is quite an…
I'm no fan of DLC but this is one defiantly worth getting. The Stone Prisoner is basically a new character for your party which you obtain through a small quest. The quest itself is not long but does an excellent job of giving the new character some background, I won't say more because I don't wish to spoil it. At the end of the quest you are joined by Shale, a golem who will follow you. In combat he makes an…
Reading the description you could be forgiven for thinking that Wardens Keep rewards the player for completing it with " a base of operations" making it worth getting. What you actually get is a chest, a few armour pieces and two traders. You can't even enter the Keep once you've completed it, the door is locked. There is nothing that interesting in the dungeon crawl that you must complete to get your traders and…
MagnaCarta 2 is a JRPG from Banpesto and is the follow up to the unplayable mess that was MagnaCarta. This time around they've addressed the issues from the first game and come up with what is an enjoyable if somewhat generic RPG. All the old JRPG cliches crop up, the main character has lost his memory and doesn't understand this “power” he has and so he sets out on a journey of self discovery and all that. While…
Fallout 3 is a action RPG set a 1950's version of a post apocalyptic future, you play someone who was bought up in a vault built a few a hunderd years ago to protect people from the nuclear war. Before I go any further it's worth mentioning that even though the title suggests it's a sequel it is not anything like its predecessors and should be judged as a game in it's own right. Bethesda seem to have learnt from…
I quite enjoyed the first game, yes it got repetitive but it was enjoyable none the less. This game however is appalling, it feels like it was thrown together in a couple of months by people with no pride in what they do. One improvement over the first should have been the henchmen, this time round you get to train them up and they feel more like a crew and less like a gang of random A.I as they did in the first…
I was slightly worried about buying this after suffering the the last port from Violition, Saints Row 2 was a mess on the PC and I didn't have high hopes for this. Thankfully I was wrong and they've done a decent job with it. The game itself is basically an open world were you play a Guerilla fighting the evil Earth Defence Force, the missions do have some variation to them and not all involve you smashing things…
