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JERRY BRUCKHEIMER EAT YOUR HEART OUT! Three years ago, the folks at Infinity Ward offered the gaming world their latest creation in the much acclaimed Call of Duty franchise. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was met with award after award and few gamers would begrudge Infinity Ward those precious treasures of the videogame industry. It offered new and exciting additions to the classic formula of competitive multiplayer…
NATHAN DRAKE'S LATEST ADVENTURE, IS ONE OF GAMINGS FINEST. The credits began to roll down the screen, there was I seated with goosebumps and shivers of excitement rattling through my body. Knowing I had just experienced one of the finest adventures to ever grace any form of entertainment. A shining example of not just how far videogames have come, but how they have the ability to reach new levels of immersion only…
SHORT BUT FUN, HALO: ODST PROVES THE HALO UNIVERSE STILL AS LEGS. Playing a first-person shooter based Halo game without being the iconic Master Chief is rather odd at first, though in the end it seems to be a welcomed change. When Bungie Studios first announced Halo: Recon, it was originally intended to be a side expansion built using the Halo 3 engine. A total name change and a new so called 'full game experience'…
CODEMASTERS TAKE THE COLIN MCRAE FRANCHISE IN AN WHOLE NEW EXTREME DIRECTION! Colin McRae may no longer be with us, but the legendary rally star lives on in the form of the ever popular Colin McRae rally franchise developed by Codemasters . First appearing back in 1998, the series as gone from strength to strength being both a commercial success and a cult favourite with fans of the sport. Despite the popularity of…
AN ARTISTIC AND BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE OF THE HIGHEST REGARD! Respect is easy to say but hard to demonstrate, one can say they respect a belief but showing that respect is a whole different matter. So when I finished experiencing the fourty-five strong setlist of The Beatles: Rock Band , I was left with a refreshing satisfaction that respect still shines brightly in the world of videogames. For Rock Band developers…
BATMAN'S IN FOR ONE HELL OF A NIGHT AT ARKHAM ASYLUM! There is a reason why Batman is so beloved by so many people, he's human afterall and one of the easiest comic book characters to relate to. He can't fly naturally, he can't shoot webs from his wrists and the last time I checked he wasn't able to become an angry green monster of destruction. It's because of all these factors that Batman as stayed in the hearts of…
INTERESTING WOLVERINE FACT: HE LIKES TO SLICE THINGS OPEN! It's a proven fact that developing videogames based around big hit cinema releases is a challenge, with the movie studio often dictacting what and what shouldn't be included. So why should developers take on such a title, well for one they are often guaranteed to sell copies as excited movie watchers pick up a copy on their weekly shopping spree, plus it's…
IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE KILLER SOUNDTRACK YOU KNOW! In 1986 Japanese developers Taito introduced Arkanoid to the gaming world, quickly becoming the much treasured and loved classic that it is today. Based upon Atari 's Breakout series of the 1970s, it tasked the player with using a small round ball to break colourful blocks in an attempt to achieve the highest scores. Since then developers around the world have…
THE METAL GODS SMILE UPON US, FOR METALLICA ARE HERE! It was only going to be a matter of time until the legendary heavy metal band Metallica was given their own Guitar Hero game, and for good reason. The popular American rockers have produced some of the most beloved rock music of the past two decades, tracks that feature many iconic guitar rifts and unforgettable lyrics. Guitar Hero developers Neversoft were given…
HELL HATH NO FURY, LIKE A WIPEOUTHD ADD-ON! The Wipeout franchise continues to be a great success for Sony, and when they told the videogame world that an high definition version would be made for the Playstation Network. Well there were many eager Wipeout fans desperate to see what developers Studio Liverpool would make with the extra power of the Playstation 3 console. The franchise had spent much of it's more…
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THIRTY PERCENT SHOOTING GUYS, SEVENTY PERCENT RELOADING! The wild west, an almost mystical place these days. But once upon a time it was the breeding grounds for all sorts of legendary tales, the types of tales that were told around a nice warm camp fire or in your local cinema through the wonderful medium of moving pictures. Cinemas around the globe have at some point, showed a western or two. Infact the 1960's saw…
FIREWORKS HAVE NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN, NOR SO DESTRUCTIVE! We all like a good firework display from time to time, from the noise and speed of the rocket. To the eventual explosion of colour and sound, there hard not to like. So when I heard that there was a Nintendo DS game that allow me to live my dreams of being the rocketman myself, I jumped at the chance and picked up a copy of my very own. Big Bang Mini is the…
MORAL CHOICES HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ELECTRIFYING! Every single one of us, as at one point in their lives thought about what it would be like to have their very own superpowers. To be like superman flying through the clouds or to suddenly go invincible at the click of your fingers. There abilities we dream of, and one of the main reasons companies like Marvel and DC have been so successful. Their comic book creations…
BLOOD, GORE AND VIOLENCE ON THE WII?..... NEVER!!! It's become common knowledge that the Nintendo Wii is the home of family friendly videogaming, Nintendo's decision to aim for a younger and non-gamer audience as been a right one, for it's made the Wii one of the most successful consoles ever. It's without doubt that the little white box as it's share of forgettable titles for such gamers as myself, but even I…
ENTER THE KILLZONE FOR ONE OF THE PS3'S FINEST TITLES! Hype can be a deadly uncontrollable disease to a videogame, it can ruin a games enjoyment within seconds and in today's tough financial times, destroy a whole development studio. As the gaming industry gets bigger and bigger each year, the expectation of gamers do to. Gamers expect more for their hard earned buck nowadays and already hype as killed off many a…
THE ONE TRUE FIGHTING KING RETURNS! Street Fighter , two words that for many are a perfect representation of videogame entertainment. Two words that have become so popular that even none gamers know what their sons or daughters are talking about when it comes to this special and beloved beat-em up franchise. First appearing back in 1987, Street Fighter as been played by billions all around the World. From the arcade…
WHO SAID VIDEOGAMES COULDN'T BE REPRESENTATIONS OF ART? Flower is one of those odd games where a review can never really describe it best, it's simply one of those games where you need to experience it yourself to truly appriate what it is trying and achieves to do. Now avaliable for the Playstation 3 via the Playstation Network, Flower is developed and created by Thatgamecompany the folks who bought us the oddly…
I DON'T THINK ARCADE GAMING AS EVER LOOKED MORE BEAUTIFUL! Let's all be honest for a moment, they may call it arcade gaming but it's not exactly the same experience we all fell in love with those years ago when arcades were king. There was never a huge amount of arcades here in the British Isles compared to most countries but I still got to enjoy some great and classic games. So I've always been fond of the 'arcade'…
I HAVE A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH FAITH! Mirror's Edge is DICE 's latest attempt to convince us gamers that they can actually make a good single player game and aren't just some fantastic multplayer developer loved by most (if not all) PC gamers. This latest attempt offers you the experience of doing some parkour which is a form of free running. It's an odd concept for a game at first sight but it actually works…
NO ROCK BAND, BUT IT CERTAINLY ISN'T NO TRIBUTE BAND! Guitar Hero , we all have fond memories of our first time hitting those coloured fret buttons to some of our favourite tracks or whamming your way through a song or two. It replaced the good old air guitar and created one of the most successful franchises of gaming history. But it's also gone through quite some changes over the years, not just seeing new…
WHO KNEW SPACE WAS SUCH A VIOLENT PLACE! When we think of Outer Space, we think of big powerful rocketships taking men and women of great intelligence to study the many wonders of this world. We don't think of horrid blood thirsty aliens looking to savagely kill any human that may cross their path. Yet in the universe of EA's newest shooter Dead Space , that's what's exactly happening and it a true test of survival.…
ATV'S + SSX TRICKY = BRILLIANT MINDLESS SPEED FUN! When you think of mindless racing fun, ATV's might not be the first form of vehicle to come to your head. But they prove to be more then just a bit of fun in Disney Interactive Studios and Black Rock Studios newest ATV title PURE hitting XBOX 360, PS3 and PC. The best way to describe PURE is to do a little maths, think the classic SSX Tricky meets ATV's and you have…
The much loved futuristic racer makes it's Playstation 3 debut on the Playstation Network, but does it meet the high expectation fans now have for the series or does it hit to many walls along the way? The Wipeout series as now been a part of the gaming scene for a good long while, since first appearing on Sony's first gaming console in the Playstation. Since then the franchise as appeared on a number of different…
THE FORCE IS INDEED STRONG WITH THIS ONE! Star Wars is huge, if you didn't already know. I don't think there is one person on the planet that hasn't heard of Star Wars, maybe one or two small tribes in the deepest areas of the Amazon rainforest but I'm sure even they have heard of Luke Skywalker . Who hasn't? so its no surprise that this endless money making Star Wars Universe as appeared in a huge number of games.…
For those of you who have ever experienced Pandemic Studios's Mercenaries: Playground Destruction then you'll know what to expect from its sequel. This is because so much of Mercs 2 feels similar to its Predecessor in so many ways and although in areas this is not indeed a bad thing, it is when you compare it to so many other open world games currently avaliable on this generation of consoles. Its fair to argue that…
