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The Wild West is dying, and Red Dead Redemption is unlikely to let you forget it. It's not just its barren desert landscape, but its entire ethos, washed away by rapidly encroaching governmental control. It's into this landscape that John Marston is thrown with a single objective in mind, but as is always the case he's very open to getting sidetracked along the way. Every horse in RDR is unfortunately limited to…
It would be very easy for Bayonetta to make itself an excruciatingly hard game - indeed in spots it comes very close - but although the combat system may be deeper than a single playthrough will lead you to believe, the game is very good at only revealing its complexity to those who want to find it. It seems Hideki Kamiya has learnt his lesson from directing the first Devil May Cry game in this regard, because…
Looks pretty don't it? Remaking a game many consider to be one of the best ever made for the original Playstation was always going to be a difficult task, even for a studio with Eternal Darkness in its back catalogue. The solution Silicon Knights hit upon was a simple but effective one, namely don't change anything. This core design philosophy is simultaneously Twin Snakes' both best and worst quality, with the game…
Note: I never owned an original Xbox, and as such never played JSRF as it was meant to be played. This review is one of the game played with the 360's less than perfect backwards compatibility. I'm fully aware some of the issues I experienced weren't present in the original, but I've only got my personal experie nce to go on when it comes to this. Taking such matters into account simply isn't possible. If any game…
It was always going to be troublesome making a sequel to a game with eight expansion packs. The Sims 2 now lies as a bloated beast, full of features incrementally added throughout the years in small £20 packages, but unbelievably its long overdue sequel The Sims 3 doesn't feel the least bit castrated. The same winning formula has been carried over, the fat trimmed, the remains toned, and what remains is something…
This review is of the PS3 version of the game and not the Xbox 360 or PC version. As such some of the technical notes made in this review may not be applicable to other versions. Neither other version was considered when writing this review. It's sometimes hard looking back on it to think of Bioshock as a game. Make no bones about it, it's a great game, but you're hardly going to remember it for that reason alone.…
Wipeout HD is fast. It's fast, and it's colourful. In fact it's so fast and colourful that the game warns you to take breaks every fifteen minutes to avoid epileptic seizures. That's fast. Those present at the beginning of the Playstation saga will remember the original Wipeout as the first game to be released on the system outside of Japan. Since then the series has gone from strength to strength (aside from a blip…
Mercenaries 2 is an open-world third person shooter in which you - a mercenary - are tasked with doing missions for two competing factions with the eventual aim of taking revenge on a previous employer. It places a strong emphasis on big, loud explosions, which, whilst pretty, make a pretty bad basis for a game, especially as everything that surrounds them is rather weak. It's hard to care about the storyline for…
Do you like map packs? How about free ones? Released every day? If you do you might just love Little Big Planet, Sony's first foray into the world of Game 3.0 and a truly revolutionary step in game design. In one fell swoop Media Molecule has revolutionised the platforming genre, and its traditional competitors will have a hard time keeping up. For those who've somehow missed the insane amount of buzz revolving…
