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Codemasters have already created the driving games of Dirt 2 and Grid with their Ego engine. They've even created an FPS called Operation Flashpoint with it too. Now they have the licence to make F1 games, and presumably the licence to print money because of it as well. I really hoped that they'd done Formula One justice, since I am a big fan of the motorsport and I do like my driving games - especially Forza 2 and…
I guess the first thing I must point out is that I really don't mind getting shot in the head. I was fully expecting to get the one shot kills and sneaky strategy with this game. I had hopes of a game like the early Ghost Recon FPS games. I really liked Far Cry 2 and was expecting something more technical from this, but with it's free-roaming style and tactical game-play. I really fancied a strategy fps and had this…
I played the original FarCry on the XBox and got too bored to complete it. I really like the direction this game has gone in - there are no "feral abilities" of the first game. The new setting is an open-world mercenary Africa, with a gritty realisation of arms-dealing, power struggles and atrocities between several factions in an African country and the mercenaries they employ to help them with their business. You…
Bioshock is an important game for me. it immediately stuck me as a highly polished first person shooter (a favourite genre of mine) with an important difference: The plot was finely crafted, so the story behind the game became an important feature of it. This feature fuelled the addictive nature of the game, in wanting to make me play it through to the end. The attention paid to the premise, script, acting and…
