I got Call of Duty: World at War shortly after Christmas. I wasn’t expecting much as Call of Duty 4 had set the standards high. Call of Duty 4 brought modernisation to the already popular Call of Duty franchise. It is still a high standing game, multi-player wise, and the campaign itself was quite enjoyable. [...]
Saints Row 2 has been criticised as a GTA mimic. In reality, the original Saints Row held many of the qualities that GTA: IV boasted as ‘unique’. The freakish ragdoll physics, the windshield cannon-balling and terrifying explosions. Saints Row 2 has come so far since the first in the trilogy, but with so much more [...]
Next-gen platforming – Mirror’s Edge
posted by Total Plox on 10th December 2008, at 11:02pm | 1 Comment
Platformers have been around since the birth of videogames. Jumping, swinging, and rolling around grouped games such as Pitfall, Super Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog into the “platformer” category. As the 3D generation of videogames approached, we saw less and less platformers arising on the market. The genre that popularized gaming was slowly dying. Recently, [...]
There may be hope for the videogame franchise yet. Judging by the way Fable II played out, I think developers may have finally got it. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel to have a good game. Fable II’s story has many parallels to the first: you have no parents, your sister has been killed, [...]
Any gamer could tell you that Gears of War 2 is coming out this November, and they’d also tell you about how they’ve been wetting their pants over gameplay footage for the past few months. But a month and a half is a little long for the average gamer to sit and wait for the [...]
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