Category: PS 3
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Shatter (PC) Review
I’ve always had a fascination with paddle games. No, not those sort of games – I mean the brick smashers where you hit a projectile into bricks in order to smash them apart. The aim of the game is usually nothing more than to clear the area of all bricks, which if you think about…
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Haze Review
Sitting down to play a brand new game isn’t as instantaneous as it once was. Every virgin PS3 game needs to undergo a series of updates, reboots and installs before you can even start playing these days. However, after a cup of coffee and several laps around the backyard, Haze was loaded and able to…
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Motorstorm 2: Pacific Rift Review
When Motorstorm first debuted along with the PS3 here in NZ, many people didn’t quite know how to react. The console was new, we were blinded by Sony’s bright lights and flashy marketing jargon and Motorstorm looked fantastic. However, the difficulty level and tough-to-master controls made the game inaccessible to many. Meanwhile real fans put…
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Payday: The Heist Review
My crew and I have entered the bank and scoped the place out. Two of them find the bank manager, who has the keycard that we need; while I wait in queue at the tellers, and another teammate is upstairs with a view of the whole room. Once the time is right, we put on…
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review
While gamers are saving their pennies for the big-name titles, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning may have slipped past their radars – I know it slipped past mine when it released last month. But a copy for the PC graced my mailbox last week, and I’m certainly glad it did. It’s both familiar and fresh at…
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DC Universe Online Review
DC Universe Online is a new MMO that lets players create their own hero or villain to fight aside such comic icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and Lex Luthor. But what happens when you give the unwashed masses a taste of power and let them loose in Metropolis and Gotham? Read on and…
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Need for Speed: Shift Review
The last few Need for Speed games haven’t really managed to push the racing genre forward too much. By and large, they’ve been serviceable, but for every NFS game that came out, you could probably point to one or two of its contemporaries that did things better. However, EA has recently been making noises about…