Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (aka Dark Conflict)
The sequel to the excellent Advance Wars: Dual Strike doesn’t look very promising. It’s post-apocalyptic world may be atmospheric and something new, but it’s just too gray. The same goes for the characters and plot. First of all, I don’t want a plot in my tactics game, an [...]
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Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (aka Dark Conflict)
The sequel to the excellent Advance Wars: Dual Strike doesn’t look very promising. It’s post-apocalyptic world may be atmospheric and something new, but it’s just too gray. The same goes for the characters and plot. First of all, I don’t want a plot in my tactics game, an [...]
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP)
Baby steps. Usually you get faster at playing a game, but with Monster Hunter Freedom 2 I’ve constantly been moving slower. You need to, or it kills you, time and time again. By the four-hour mark I was getting to grips with the somewhat cumbersome controls, but my enemies were just too tough. I was ready to give up. But veterans of the [...]
Ninja Gaiden 2 first looks (Xbox 360)
Oh god, yes. Ninja Gaiden 2 images were accidentally up for a moment, which promptly led them to spreading all over the internets. Check out Kotaku’s gallery if you’re so inclined. It’s looking good, which comes as no surprise, but at some level I was expecting more – it’s a little too much like the previous game [...]
Go for the balls (Skate, Xbox 360)
EA has realized what most would-be skateboarders know best: how to laugh at bail videos. You know, the kind with sk8rbois damaging their private parts. Their Tony Hawk killer Skate’s (points for the simple title, guys) physics and animation is suitably advanced to make this possible in videogames – hell, they might’ve even c [...]
Tampons on the battlefield (Army Of T...
I’m not sure what sort of tone they’re going after here, but Army Of Two is looking all kinds of awesome.
Tired of feeling good about yourself?...
I’ve been playing Bioshock, which is something that people do these days. I was aware of all the hype and the much-publicized question of whether to harvest or rescue the Little Sister characters. Either way you’re rewarded, but you apparently get more goodies if you kill them. In case you don’t know, the Little Sisters are [...]
I can feel it kicking in (Tekken Dark...
I used to play a lot of Tekken. Especially Tekken 3, which – along with Wipeout - really brought the Playstation to fore in my circles. There was a time when I knew several characters well, being able to play very tactically. Since then I’ve been much more into Dead Or Alive and Soul Calibur, coming to regard Tekken’s combo- [...]
Dead Island (PC)
Dead Island appears to pick up where Dawn Of The Dead left off, with a tropical island full of zombies.
Having come from World War Z and Dead Rising recently and already set my sights on Left 4 Dead, you might say that I’m adequately zombiefied already, but the tropical island makes things interesting. I always wanted to get back on Far [...]
Still evil (Resident Evil 4 Wii Editi...
I’ve been playing Resident Evil 4 on both the new Wii incarnation and the old PS2 version – I’m reviewing the Wii version for a magazine and wanted to check out how it compares to older hardware. I haven’t seen the original Gamecube version, but I take it’s the same as the Wii version, with a tailored-for-Wii con [...]
The expectation (Xbox 360, Strangleho...
My Xbox 360 better get back soon. All the gaming world is already playing the Stranglehold demo.
And Bioshock. Come on!
Gaming has been limited to the PC, where I’ve continued the Company Of Heroes campaign, still very much into it and tried a bit of Dungeon Runners.
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