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The phrase “Walking Simulator” gets thrown around a lot when talking about games such as Dear Esther in a derogatory manor. I do think that stuff consisting of exploring an environment while the plot happens in an unconventional manner does have a place, regardless of popularity, which is an unpopular opinion. Dear Esther was originally a first person exploration mod for Half-Life 2 in 2008 by a small group of…
It was 1992, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was in full swing, having been released in Japan, North America, Europe and Oceana in the last two years and it was selling like hotcakes. 1992 was also the debut of Super Mario Kart for the SNES, eventually going on to sell 9 million copies. It allowed you to take control of one of eight characters from the Mario games and lets you race against the other…
Endless runners exploded when the iPhone’s App Store was introduced. They all have an easy to understand concept, easy to use controls, and low barrier of entry for both developer and user, so It’s easy to see why. Trying to get the onscreen character as far as possible through an environment as far as possible without hitting any of the obstacles makes for a pretty good and addictive time waster. But due to the low…
You know, i never through i could find a game so terrible that it could compete against Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing as one of the worst things in existence. This is one of those instances where you have to try and make something phenomenally terrible. Where do i even start with this thing? Limbo of the Lost is a point-and-click adventure game, having you solve puzzles to gain access to new parts of the world. The…
Well, me playing and reveiwing this game came randomly out of nowhere. While i was surfing Steam one day during their fantastic sales were on, i noticed this game for an incredibly cheap $2 - $3. Clicking through to the game's page, i saw that it had an incredibly simplistic art style consisting of these Lego looking military forces. I decided to pay for it, might as well since the low price point meant after an…
I've never really been all that into music, as strange as that is, so when it came to playing Audiosurf, i was turned off to the idea of music being incorporated into a game. I'm don't like Rockband, Guitar Hero and similar games and never will. But lo and behold, a Steam sale caught my eye and i couldn't resist, since i have been hearing good things about it since it's release back in 2008, and at the $2 - $3…
When the original Max Payne came out on PC, it was not only the most graphically impressive game at the time of it's release, capturing the spirit of Film Noir and Hong Kong action films like that of John Woo's, it introduced and perfected what is now known as bullet-time gameplay, something not even the Matrix games could get right. So when the game came to the Gameboy Advance, expectations were low, since the…
Video games have had their fair share of what could be considered art despite what Roger Ebert has to say (a conversation for another day), with Shadow of the Colossus, ICO, Flower and Rez instantly coming to mind. But non can really be described as an explorable paining than a game, which Tale of Tales have exactly described their game, The Graveyard, as. As an entry into experimental gaming, The Graveyard is an…
Condemned: Criminal Origins is a psychological survival horror game that focuses heavily on melee combat and crime scene investigation that was developed by Monolith Productions (the same people who developed F.E.A.R. and AvP 2 for the PC) and released in 2005, making it one of the launch games for the Xbox 360. Looking back at it now, it's not only obvious that it's a first generation game for a next generation…
Manhunt received a lot of negative attention shortly after its release due to the graphic manner in which the player executes his enemies and has even been blamed for the death of a teenager, resulting in a ban in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Germany. Outside the controversy, which i will not be paying attention to in this review, the game itself is not completely horrible, if not a little…
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis as a game works on paper, a Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon freeform sandbox type game where you are in chare of creating and running Jurrasic Park, trying to make it a 5-star theme park by creating as many different dinosaurs as possible and building a park around it with basic amenities for visitors and rides that completely show off your selection of dinosaurs. Unfortunately,…
(The PC Version was reviewed with the 1.2 patch installed, so the sound glitches have been fixed and the mouse-look option has been added, please don't allow this to affect your view of this review) John Carpenter's The Thing is both one of my favourite horror movies of all time and one of my favourite movies in general, so when i heard that there was a video game out based on the film, i was naturally excited to…
Back in 1987, the graphical adventure game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was released in it's 16 colour glory for the Amiga, Apple II and MS-DOS. The creator of the game, Al Lowe, who was also known for his composing for the music of the game and several other Sierra games, went on to create multiple sequels to the game, with Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail being his last in the series.…
Now for something completely different, Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. Off-Road Velociraptor Safari has a premise that is fairly easy to understand, you control a monocle and pith helmet wearing velociraptor driving a 4x4 and the aim of the game is to try and get the high score by performing stunts, damaging the jeep during collisions, collecting orbs, and killing the velociraptor’s which run around the area by…
Read the full review A fun game to play during your lunch break
Translating Duke Nukem to the Gameboy Advance would be pretty much impossible since it's know for having strippers, swearing and violence (see the shrink ray and stepping on your shrunk enemies), everything that gave the game its personality. So when it got its own version on the GBA, the game went the way of the Doom and Wolfenstein 3D ports and removed the ladies and profane language had been taken out and toned…
Read the full review A Duke Nukem game that isn't DN3D that really shines through
SkyRoads XMAS Special (DOS) - Game Review After the success of SkyRoads, Bluemoon decided to release another version of their game, a Christmas themed edition called “SkyRoads XMAS Special”. Is it me or did every developer release holiday inspired levels, add-ons or expansions around this time? The core of The SkyRoads XMAS Special are the same. The controls, platform specific power-ups (or downs in some cases) and…
Read the full review An extention of a game that is underwhelming
SkyRoads (a polished-up remake of the company’s previous obscure game, Kosmonaut), is a simple racing game that was released back in 1993 for DOS by Bluemoon. In this game, you take control of a futuristic ship that is used for racing (said loosely, since there is no racing in this game and I assume that is what it is used for). The objective of the game is simple, successfully finish a series of tracks without…
Read the full review An arcade style game that isn't too bad
The endless ocean of Tetris remakes, clones, rip-offs, official and unofficial versions, ports, sequels and everything else under the sun, finding a version of this game that is even close to what was already a perfect puzzle game is pretty much impossible. This is where Tetris Blast comes in (or Bombliss if your in Japan). Released and only released on the original GameBoy, Tetris Blast includes bombs as part of…
Throughout gaming history, there have been many great underrated games that have fallen by the wayside, (Beyond Good & Evil and Psychonaughts come to mind) forgotten by time and gamers alike, either because of lack of advertising, being overshadowed by another bigger release or it didn't interest the general gaming public enough to sell the copies needed to make it a big hit. The Last Express is one of these games.…
