Brink
You just can’t get the staff. In the first six games inside Brink’s first campaign mission we only took one primary objective, and even then failing the second. To clarify, our team wasn’t up against...
View ArticleWriting Homefront
According to outspoken Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski, the middle-class game is dead. Speaking before a GDC audience, Bleszinski opined that only triple-AAA blockbuster offerings and...
View ArticleBattlefield: Bad Company 2
Perhaps it can be chalked up to the 100+ hours of driving tanks and ‘pwning noobz’ in the exemplary multiplayer modes, but when I finally got around to sitting through Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s...
View ArticleBattlefield: Bad Company 2 (Multiplayer)
After a week’s break between the end of the demo and the release of the full game, the addiction has set in again. The single player campaign has been completely ignored for the multi-faceted, frenetic...
View ArticleThe time-eating qualities of the BF:BC2 demo
I’ve sunk an extraordinary amount of time into the multiplayer component of Modern Warfare 2 – some 84 hours and 12 minutes to be exact – and while there has definitely been some improvement in my...
View ArticleBioShock 2
There has been a trend over the last six months for sequels to take the promising first stab at a new franchise and improve upon it very successfully, whether that be Assassin’s Creed 2 taking an...
View ArticleBioShock 2 (Multiplayer)
Although it was never quite going to match up to the Modern Warfare 2 juggernaut for sheer depth, Digital Extremes’ multiplayer component for BioShock 2 feels like a missed opportunity. It introduces...
View ArticleBioShock 2
Set in the submerged, dystopian city of Rapture and championing the power of the self over the collective, the original BioShock proved that game developers could take literature as its chief...
View ArticleMy love/hate relationship with MW2
I got a staggering amount of games for Christmas. More games than I will reasonably get through for a number of months, particularly as the first quarter of this new year is absolutely packed with...
View ArticleFar Cry 2
Another ‘old’ game (released in October 2008) that I received as a Christmas present, I initially expected not to enjoy Far Cry 2. The gritty setting and the emphasis on realism is something I normally...
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