Halo 4 cover. It’s very Halo.
Day 1. Campaign.
This localisation thing is beyond stupid. Forcing Finnish players to use the Finnish text? Really? Fixed by changing your console’s locale to, say, the UK, but come on. It would be a single menu option to change the language used.
Seeing Cortana’s more human features – weird, it feels [...]
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Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
Halo 4 cover. It’s very Halo.
Day 1. Campaign.
This localisation thing is beyond stupid. Forcing Finnish players to use the Finnish text? Really? Fixed by changing your console’s locale to, say, the UK, but come on. It would be a single menu option to change the language used.
Seeing Cortana’s more human features – weird, it feels [...]
Rocksmith (Xbox 360)
Rocksmith. The guitar is what it’s all about.
Rocksmith’s appeal is entirely up to your background. Mine follows: when Rock Band came out in Europe in January 2008, I first picked up a plastic guitar controller. (I’ve had four since.) Two years ago I picked up a real guitar, all thanks to the game. I’ve been noodling w [...]
Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360)
Max Payne 3
Hong Kong cinema blood spurts. That’s what it all comes down to. All this technology and setting (gloriously riffing off Man On Fire) and accomplished storytelling, and it’s the theatrical blood spurts that bring it home. Max Payne 3 is a Hong Kong action tragedy, a John Woo piece made interactive.
It is as well writte [...]
Ridge Racer Unbounded
My favorite screenshot. I knew we had nailed the look at this point.
I’ve been working in the games industry for four years now at Bugbear and on the last day of March, my first game was released for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Windows PC. It’s a re-imagination of the fabled Ridge Racer series called Ridge Racer Unboun [...]
Skyrim (Xbox 360)
Skyrim. Hot damn they've improved from Oblivion's tasteless fantasy tropes
My wife got me Ready Player One for Christmas. It’s pretty good for a kid born in the 70s, and its themes of virtual worlds and their relation to the real world gels really well with a science fiction thing I’ve been working on. Then I started playi [...]
Kane & Lynch 2 (Xbox 360)
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
I found the first Kane & Lynch an important game. It was not very good as an action title – although by no means bad, either – but it was very interesting.
Games should generally be more interesting.
What made it interesting was its sad bastards of protagonists. These guys are the same in the seque [...]
What’s wrong with Bioware? (Mas...
Mass Effect 2
I used to think that Bioware was the coolest studio out there. They were putting out games I absolutely loved: mainly
Driver: San Francisco (Xbox 360)
Driver: San Francisco
Before Driver: San Francisco, I thought that maybe you just can’t do engaging storytelling in a car game. Rockstar had given it a shot, and while I really enjoy Midnight Club: Los Angeles, the storytelling is really very bad and uninteresting. If Rockstar can’t do it, who can? It turns out that Reflections ca [...]
Games of the year 2010
As usual, I’ve missed out on several “game of the year” candidates in 2010, only getting to them some time later, if ever. These include Red Dead Redemption (which I will get), Mass Effect 2 (will play), the new Call Of Duty (was it Black Ops in 2010? Not interested), Civilization V (not interested, never was into Civ beyon [...]
From the trenches
I’ve been playing quite a bit lately, but nothing in the lot has really ignited me enough to write about it. It does feel like a shame to not at least note down what these games are, if only for the fact that they’re worth playing.
007 Blood Stone
Bizarre’s possibly last game is a great Bond experience. It falls short of b [...]
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