Thoughts on The Wolf Among Us Episodes 1 & 2 (some spoilers follow, I have hidden the main ones) I have no experience with the Fables comics, and The Wolf Among Us is my first foray into that world and its characters. The only thing that attracted me to the game was that it was developed by Telltale, who I felt did an extraordinary job on The Walking Dead in 2012. With that in mind I was hopefu...
Work and life has taken a lot of time from me this year, meaning I have played a lot less games than previous years. My PC has also been broken since the summer meaning I missed a lot of games I want to play on that platform. Despite this I still managed to play a lot of games that I really enjoyed, and cobble together a list from them. This list will likely change over the course of 2014 but a...
Nintendo are responsible for many long standing and beloved series, and my personal favourite one is the Pokemon games, even over Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Pokemon is long running and is a series which has often stood accused of failing to change with the times, of being stale or lacking imagination. These claims have some truths behind them but Game Freak have refined the formula of a Pok...
Catherine is a rare breed of game, and one that is different from just about anything else that I have played. This first foray by Atlus into the HD era of games combines puzzle gameplay with anime and a dose of Japan that is fitting for the developer of Persona, but Catherine has more issues than one may expect from this developer. Catherine puts players in the role of Vincent Brooks, a 32 yea...
Naughty Dog have a powerful track record in the PS3 with the Uncharted series, but The Last of Us is a brand new IP with a very different tone and world than the swash-buckling adventures of Nathan Drake. The zombie apocalypse setting is a very familiar one by now thanks to a raft of games and other media which have anchored themselves in it, but with The Last of Us, Naughty Dog have managed to...
Continuing with the theme of the ending of a generation of home consoles and arrival of a new batch, I will talk about the second console I owned. Having bought and absolutely loved my N64 I was given a Playstation for Christmas 1998, allowing me to experience an entire new and fresh set of games. In thinking about the impact that the Playstation had on my gaming tastes and the kind of games I...
We are finally at the start of a new generation of games, with the Wii U already being here and the PS4 and Xbox One on the way by years end. There is a lot of talk about legacy in the air, and with that in mind I have been thinking about what were my favourite games of this generation, and the impact that previous consoles I owned had on my tastes in games. With that in mind I thought I would...
MvC 3 is following the legacy left by its hugely popular predecessor, not an easy act to follow. I am unfamiliar with the series, having only briefly played mvc 2, so I went into mvc 3 without any vested interest or expectations with regards the franchise name. What I have played a lot of is Super Street Fighter 4, which I find an expertly crafted and entertaining game. Having played several ho...
Mortal Kombat from NetherRealm Studios serves as a reboot of the series. Raiden has been defeated by Shao Kahn in the aftermath of Mortal Kombat Armageddon and sends a telepathic message back to his Mortal Kombat 1 self warning of future events in an attempt to change history. This allows key events to be altered in Mortal Kombat lore and this game serves as an amalgamation of mk 1-3. Mortal Ko...
With Dead Space 3 on my mind having just finished it, I thought I would lay out my thoughts on its immediate predecessor: Dead Space 2. Dead Space was a new IP from EA and what would become Visceral Games, and it was one of the most enchanting and intense survival horror games I has played in years, probably since Resident Evil 4. As a result of my love of that first entry, my expectations were...
Dead Space is among the bright lights of game series originating in this current generation for me, with its first entry providing a chilling and highly polished horror game while its sequel increased the action and maintained the personalised story. That said I was concerned about Dead Space 3 during its development. Increased focus on action, microtransactions, co-op campaigns and the suppose...
Assassin’s Creed is among the darlings of this generation of games for me, with the first title in the series breaking completely new ground and really bringing a feeling of “newness” way back in 2007. AC 2 and Brotherhood have undoubtedly been the high point of the series, but with the announcement of Assassin’s Creed 3 Ubisoft looked set to stem the feeling of annualised stagnation with the b...
With Aliens Colonial Marines still fresh in my mind I thought I would take a look at the most recent Alien series entry before Gearbox's bad 2013 product. Rebellion were the developer behind the 2010 Aliens vs Predator, and this is a franchise that has had huge potential, yet always underachieved grossly. The films have been awful and the older games are fondly remembered, but are well aged now...
The Alien franchise and name are venerable, having been the inspiration for numerous other series and concepts throughout the years. Unfortunately it has been a very long time since this grand-sire of science fiction got a quality game of its own, with the most recent Aliens vs Predator in 2010 just falling below expectations and what it should have been. Now Gearbox ha released Aliens Colonial...
With the end of year rush over the holiday period I tried to get as many games played as I could, but with work and life in general getting in the way I have only now been able to get through enough of the 2012 backlog to do a proper list for Game of the Year. Better late than never thought right, so without further ado here is my list of top games for 2012, and since it is now 2013 I thought i...
September was a busy time for me outside of gaming with a lot of other time commitments, but I still managed to play as many games as possible in between all the annoyances of life. I am also looking forward to a bunch of games coming in October, most notably Dishonoured , Pokemon and Assassins Creed III . However I still have to finish up some titles before I get stuck into the fresh October r...