Author: james

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Mass Effect 3 was one of the most anticipated games of the year, and promised to put the wraps on BioWare’s grand space adventure trilogy. When it arrived, the game was genuinely epic in content, but fan reaction to the game’s ending managed to outshine it even so. Threats of legal action, closed writing sessions…

Dishonored 2 Review

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After the unexpected hit that was 2012’s Dishonored, French developers Arkane Studios had their work cut out for them crafting a sequel that could do justice to their dark, supernatural steampunk stealther. Four years later, and Dishonored 2 has a lot to prove. Dishonored 2 takes place 15 years after Empress Jessamine Kaldwin was assassinated,…

Prototype Review

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Prototype puts you in the shoes of Alex Mercer, an everyman who for some reason wakes up on a slab at the county morgue. Why is he there? How is he no longer dead? What’s going wrong in the city? What’s going wrong with him?! Prototype is the latest sandbox game to come out of…

Banjo-Tooie Review

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Back in the days of the good ol’ Nintendo 64, a little developer from Blighty almost couldn’t seem to put a step wrong. Rare were churning out A+++ titles, paw over claw. The original Banjo-Kazooie pushed the N64 like no game before it, featuring unbelievably rich graphics and, of course, winning game play. The sequel,…

Dead by Daylight Review

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While Dead by Daylight lacks the pop culture legacy that another recently-released asymmetric horror game possesses, it reminds you that when a game executes its concept well, it doesn’t require a guy in a hockey mask for people to take notice. While the gameplay is fairly straightforward, the deep RPG-like upgrade system and the way…

Mass Effect 2 Review

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Bioware knows RPGs. They’ve been cranking them out since Jesus was a carpenter and they’re still in business for one very good reason: they’re damn good at what they do. Their back catalogue reads like a “best ever RPGs” list, with classics like Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age to name but two…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition Review

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If, for some reason, you’ve been living in a cave for the last half decade, with your eyes shut and fingers in your ears, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released to fanfare and acclaim way back in 2011. This instalment was notable for having true mass appeal, and garnered fans and awards like bees to…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled (XBLA) Review

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Some of our older readers may remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time on the Super Nintendo or the co-op version in the arcade. Now Konami has had Ubisoft remake the classic, adding the subtitle “Re-shelled” along with giving the visuals an HD overhaul and adding Xbox Live support. In case you haven’t played…

Flock Review

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Flock seems like a childish title on the surface, but like many Xbox Live Arcade titles of this ilk, first impressions most definitely deceive. The premise is that you control an alien space craft, on a quest to round up sheep, cows, chickens and pigs to your mothership, dubbed as the ‘motherflocker’. You do this…

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (XBLA) Review

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in PS 3, Reviews, Xbox 360

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was one of the best games of the last generation and it’s not hard to see why: it had popular characters such as Wolverine, Ryu, Morrigan and Captain America going at it and a ton of characters to unlock. Now it’s back on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Arcade. For…

Worms 2: Armageddon Review

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The Worms franchise has been around for a long time – the first title, Worms, came out in 1995. Since then, there have been a total of 16 Worms titles – including three spinoff titles and a Korean-exclusive online-only variant. Worms 2: Armageddon, then, is about as accurately a numbered sequel as anything in the…

Mortal Kombat Review

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in PS 3, Reviews, Vita, Xbox 360

Mortal Kombat is a reboot of the decades-old franchise that started life as a game. Originally released on PS3 and 360 last year, the fighter has finally battled its way onto Sony’s shiny new pocketable PlayStation. Is it a match made in heaven? In short, the answer to that question is yes. In long, it’s…

Dragon Age II Review

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I was pretty excited when I first laid my greedy eyes on Bioware’s Dragon Age II. The first one sucked up a good portion of my time, and though it had its flaws, in its own special way it did a satisfying job of sating my grumbling RPG urges. So it was a little unfair…

Fable III Review

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in PC, Reviews, Xbox 360

I’m always slightly shocked when I come across something really silly in a game with otherwise serious production values – after all, the game industry is big business, with massive budgets poured into spangly titles. Are developers really going to put budget into enabling a really good belch for your character? Well, if the developer…

Overlord II Review

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Sequel to the two year old Overlord, Overlord II doesn’t stray too far from the formula. Take control of the Overlord who in turn can control a bunch of minions. Wield said Overlord and his collection of demonic buddies as you wreak chaos across the land and build your own evil domain back in the…

Borderlands Review

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It really seems like less than a month has gone by since I first got the chance to first-hand; but here we are already in November, and the game at last has been released commercially. If you missed the earlier article – which got into the detailed aspects of the gameplay mechanics, as well as…

Hasbro Family Game Night: Sorry! Sliders Review

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Sorry Sliders tasks players with slamming (by sliding) their little token things into other little token things in an attempt to score points based on the position their sliders end up in at the end of a round. Each round gives the player four slider tokens to slide down their arm of a giant “plus”…

Minesweeper Flags Review

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Minesweeper Flags is a spruced up port of the Windows classic – if you can call it that. It takes the explosive gameplay and adds a new single player mode and multiplayer support with Xbox Live and local games with up to four friends. The single player mode is divided into classic (the original version…

Battlefield 1 Review

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Coming off the trail of one trend into another is always interesting to watch. Fatigue of modern-era games means the big-wigs who inspire the rest to inevitably follow their lucrative lead must now find a new avenue of war. Activision have steadily been going the way of sci-fi, perhaps unaware that space fatigue is also…

Battleship Review

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