This is my favorite in-game title scene to date.
The main screen makes it look like a B movie, with the blunt, effective, high-contrast, attention-demanding typography and the cheap, brash attitude: lightning strikes on the high tide of a forgotten, foreboding island, with the remains of a shipwreck on the front. I mean that in the best possi [...]
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Tomb Raider (PC)
This is my favorite in-game title scene to date.
The main screen makes it look like a B movie, with the blunt, effective, high-contrast, attention-demanding typography and the cheap, brash attitude: lightning strikes on the high tide of a forgotten, foreboding island, with the remains of a shipwreck on the front. I mean that in the best possi [...]
Alpha Protocol (PC)
Alpha Protocol. You will wait behind corners quite a bit. I’m a fan of the surprise attack from the front – if you’re decisive enough, you don’t have to creep up from behind guys to surprise them.
The “Espionage RPG” starts off very clumsy. I expect a lot of people to stop playing before they’re even properly out of th [...]
Warframe (PC)
Warframe screenshot
The core gamer free to play field is filling fast. Most of my gaming time on the PC is already spent on Ghost Recon Online, with the occasional night of Hawken, Mechwarrior Online or World Of Tanks. Warframe represents something we haven’t really seen before: it’s a third-person dungeoncrawling brawler, with heavy co-op fo [...]
Strike Suit Zero (PC)
The Strike Suit Zero space is really very pretty almost all the time. No dogfight has ever looked this nice.
I almost didn’t get to write this post, as initially Strike Suit Zero was way too hardcore for me. I just couldn’t get through the first mission with the actual giant robot – essentially part of the tutorial. TheyR [...]
Goodbye, Lucasarts: The things you ga...
I want to say that Lucasarts made me love videogames, but that’s not true. I do think I learned to love them more deeply thanks to Lucasarts. Here’s my most cherished memories with their games.
Maniac Mansion’s awesome cover art
MANIAC MANSION
The Finnish review in MikroBitti was great, recalling slasher flicks and painting it quite a b [...]
Defense Grid (PC)
Defense Grid
Comfort gaming
It’s a common question. “What game do you go back to, over and over again?” I always thought I didn’t have an answer to that as I’m always looking for new things to play, but some time ago I realized I do, actually. My comfort game is Defense Grid (PC).
Defense Grid was the first game I installed on my new home des [...]
Thirty Flights Of Loving (PC)
Thirty Flights Of Loving
Small form gaming
In journalism the long-form is making a return. That’s a great development, if somewhat paradoxical with the proliferation of time spent on smartphones and ever smaller chunks at a time on one specific thing. The rise of tablets is certainly a part of it, being more suited to reading than phones or c [...]
Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
Critics have been hard on the game’s graphics, but I found it beautiful. And it’s all set in sand. I expected it would be boring visually.
Spec Ops: The Line is a game that was as defining to videogames last year as The Walking Dead and Hotline Miami. This is a spoiler-free article – I’m not uncovering any major plot points – [...]
Far Cry 2 revisited (PC)
Far Cry 2. This is what my view looks like, most of the time. It’s “Orienteering – The Game”, basically.
I returned to the Africa of Far Cry 2 after listening to the guys of Idle Thumbs being very disappointed with Far Cry 3. I didn’t expect it to feel so fresh.
My initial time with Far Cry 2 was so bewildering that I [...]
Planetside 2 (PC)
Planetside 2
I was very excited about Planetside 2. The promise of planet-scale warfare with thousands of other players is something no other game has. It’s enough to make a thirty four year old gamer’s mind spin. It’s inspiring.
After only a couple of hours with the game, I uninstalled it. The reason is not its gameplay, which works fine, ev [...]
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