Crackdown 2

Posted 4:54am Tuesday 10th August 2010

Platforms: Xbox 360 ( 3/5)       Crackdown 2 is a sequel to Crackdown, one of the first sandbox games on the Xbox 360. Crackdown was an odd game in that few reviewers gave it better than average reviews, but it nevertheless appeared on their lists of personal Read more...

Mass Effect Series

Posted 12:29am Monday 19th July 2010

Platforms: PC and Xbox360 4.5/5 I am not a huge fan of role -playing games. I've played around with them; however, I've rarely gotten really excited by one. I got the first Mass Effect because my brother was interested in it, and only started playing it because I was bored and out of Read more...

Demon's Souls

Posted 11:26pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Platforms: PS3 Demon's Souls is an intriguing and inspired roleplaying game. It replaces the more traditional D&D roleplaying with something more akin to an MMORPG (non-geeks, this means 'massively multiplayer online role-playing game', durh). It combines this with an excellent combat Read more...

The Evolution of the Side-Scroller

Posted 2:12pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Platforms: All Some of the very first role-playing and action games were side-scrollers – well, the first ones that weren't entirely text-based, at least. They became popular ith both game developers and gamers. The developers liked side-scrollers because they allowed them to Read more...

Splinter Cell Retrospective

Posted 12:56pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Platforms: PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gc ith the recent release of Splinter Cell: Conviction, the newest addition to the Splinter Cell (SC) series, I would like to take a walk down memory lane with one of my favourite video game series. Though the first Splinter Cell was not Read more...