Review: Remember Me
French developer DONTNOD’s debut game is a violent clash of new and old, it’s a shame then that when I say old in this context I mean it’s almost archaic. Remember Me is an ambitious game and I feel that should be rewarded. The narrative is a frankly brilliant idea but sadly the game itself is a jumble of old design ideas that had seemingly been dispensed with years ago or newer concepts that other […]
Categories: Gaming, Reviews, Videogames Tags: capcom, cyberpunk, dontnod, nilin, paris, remember me
Trailer Watch: Sony Playstation Press Conference @ E3 2013
Sony turned into Ivan Drago last night and sadly the Xbox One looked an awful lot like Apollo Creed when they were done. It was a death blow of epic proportions that has laid waste to Microsoft’s reasonably impressive outing earlier in the day. What happened in Los Angeles last night was a corporate assassination that previously would have been expected of the victim rather than the aggressor. The Xbox One hit’s shelves for £429 in […]
Categories: Column, Gaming, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Apollo Creed, E3 2013, Ivan Drago, Microsoft, playstation 4, Rocky 2, Sony, Xbox One
Trailer Watch: Xbox One Special
Yesterday was a big day for Microsoft; after the Playstation 4 reveal, in which the focus was very much on the fact that it was a gaming machine, the reveal of the next generation Xbox truly needed to deliver. How did they do? I’m watching it for the very first time and sharing my thoughts. – The opening segment is the typical stuff you would expect; complete with celebrity cameos. Some obvious (Bill Gates) others […]
Categories: Column, Gaming, Videogames Tags: EA, Forza, Halo, Microsoft, NFL, Quantum Break, Steven Spielberg, Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox One
Trailer Watch 15th May 2013: Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Pokemon X and Y, Hellraid
There has been an inevitable lull in trailers this week, what with Microsoft’s XBox announcement/conference next Tuesday. That being said there are still some pretty interesting things coming out soon some of which have trailers worth watching. Techland are known for their ridiculously brilliant trailers. The announcement trailer for Dead Rising was brutal, in all of the right ways. It’s a shame that the game barely registered above a resigned ‘meh’. It’s refreshing, then, to […]
Categories: Column, Gaming, Videogames Tags: 3DS, Assassins Creed, Assassins Creed IV, Black Flag, Hellraid, Nintendo, playstation, Pokemon, Pokemon X, Pokemon X and Y, Pokemon Y, Techland, Trailer Watch, Xbox
Review: Prison Architect Alpha
Introversion are back with a game that borrows as much from the Tycoon series as it does their previous offerings. The studio has a knack for finding a niche within a niche and after the glorious Uplink, bizarre Darwinia and mutually assured destruction of DEFCON, they’ve turned their attention to building games. From the moment Prison Architect starts, you can tell this is going to be something different: the tutorial has you building an execution […]
Categories: Gaming, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Alpha, Architect, Darwinia, Defcon, Introversion, PC Game, Prison, Prison Architect, Software, Steam, Uplink
Retrovued: Heavy Rain
After taking a look at the trailer for Beyond: Two Souls in last week’s trailer watch I got to thinking about David Cage and his studio Quantic Dream’s other projects. The studio itself is far from prolific, in fact, they have produced just one game for each console generation since the studio was founded in 1997. Their first offering was Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Released for PC in 1999 the game got mixed reviews at best; […]
Categories: Column, Gaming, Retrovued, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Beyond: Two Souls, David Cage, Dream, Farenheit, Games, Gaming, Heavy Rain, Omikron, playstation, Quantic, Quantic Dream, Retrovued, Reviews, Sony, Videogames
FTL: Faster Than Light – First Impressions
Rogue-like used to be such a dirty word. Games with artificially inflated difficulty and a penchant for screwing you over were a niche market at best. From the punishing Kaizo Mario games to mainstream successes like Super Meat Boy, difficult games have had their market and stuck to it. Until FTL. I’m no stranger to Super Meat Boy, hell I’ve sworn at Kaizo Mario eight, nine, ten thousand times but FTL feels different. The difficulty […]
Categories: Gaming, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Faster Than Light, FTL, Games, Gaming, Reviews, Rogue-like, Roguelike, Videogames
