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Anyone who can’t remember Demon’s Souls... by all accounts can’t have played the game. No sane person could possibly forget the amount of sadistic anguish inflicted on them when this PS3 exclusive was released. Half role-playing game, half third-person brawler, and half ball-buster [that's three
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Making an open-ended game with an expansive playing area can’t be easy. It’d be so much easier to make things linear, to guide the player every step of the way. So it’s always impressive when a developer pulls off a sandbox title that remains entertaining while giving
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Graphics have come a long way in the last 30 years. Gamers had to rely solely on their imagination back in the days of text adventures. Single pixels became the heroes in multiple adventures during the early 80s. By the 90s, characters started to show more detail, but gamers wanted
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It’s been a tough start to the summer. Our needs as consumers have emptied our wallets, part time jobs at Burger King reluctantly picked up, credit cards maxed. The quality titles are here, and unfortunately Call Of Duty: World At War is one more to add to the bunch
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Playground Games have done it again. Forza Horizon 2 was my favourite game of 2014, its replayability giving the open world driving game plenty of legs, with MyRepublic gaming nights still being held regularly by NZGamer.com two years on. I didn't think driving around Southern Europe could
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Milo Burik is The Wheelman. He drives, shoots, beats people up and talks smack, usually at the same time. If you think that might be a chore for any normal man, you’d be right. However, Milo is played by Vin Diesel, and from our Vin we would expect no
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Did you know that the FIFA videogame franchise has been around for nearly 20 years? From a time when displaying the game in an isometric viewpoint was revolutionary, through to today where you can use the GamePad to look through the eyes of the kicker for free kicks, EA Sports
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Assassin's Creed taking a year off and coming back with the Egyptian setting in Origins is like your Mum going to a spa retreat in Egypt. She's going to get a mani-pedi, get a volcanic mud face mask with a couple of those thin slices of
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Before Puzzle Quest, match three games were plentiful enough but they tended to stick to the basics: match three like-coloured objects to clear them from the board; game ends when there are no more moves to make. That pretty much summed up the genre. Puzzle Quest, however, dared to take
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The developers of Lost Planet 2 weren’t kidding when they said that this sequel would be completely different to the original. Soon after their announcement, in-game screenshots of steamy jungles and fern smattered landscapes started to appear. It certainly was a huge departure from the bleak, icy and blindingly
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is arguably the best movie to come from Michael Bay’s crack at the franchise thus far - now the tie-in is here and it’s the first Transformers game to feature a multiplayer mode. This title offers a respectable roster of five playable Transformers
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After all the racing simulators this year, I’ve been missing the simpler times of arcade racers. The Burnouts, the Crazy Taxis, the MotorStorms, the WipeOuts, the Ridge Racers – even the Pod Racers. Their simple and bombastic nature is a retro contrast to the scientific approach many modern racers take.