You know while playing Far Cry 3 I couldn’t help but wonder why more games don’t use the theme of insanity. Seriously it would help explain a lot of things, for example why the villains do dumb things. Why let someone run away after killing your brother so they can plot their revenge to kill you and destroy everything you own? Simple, insanity! Anyway Far Cry 3 continues the franchises traditions ...
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For those who don’t already know, Afro Samurai the game is a tie-in to the popular anime and manga of the same name which already had me worried because with the exception of Spider-Man 2 and possibly some of the Naruto games, tie-in games in general tend to be crap (oh hi Spider-Man 3). So is Afro Samurai any good? Well it's better than most tie-ins but that’s not saying much. The story follows ...
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XCOM Enemy Unknown Community Page I am disappointed to say this but I have never played an XCOM game in my life. I had never even heard of the series until this title had been presented at E3, but boy do I regret not knowing about it. With the Earth about to become dominated by an unknown alien race, could XCOM Enemy Unknown be humanity’s saving grace? XCOM: Enemy Unknown sees you the player becom...
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Dishonored Community Page If I’ve learned anything from playing Dishonored it’s that no digital foe is safe from my wrath even if I’m given the option to be a pacifist. Yes, I could have used a sleeping dart, but decided to use cold steel instead. Yes, I could have chosen not to summon a rat swarm to devour the corpse of a recently assassinated guard, but I had to get rid of the body somehow. I co...
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In some ways I wasn’t looking forward to writing this review. Now don’t get me wrong I love Resident Evil, I play Resident Evil 2 and 4 from time to time because let’s be honest they were the best the franchise has had to offer so far. Now we come to Resident Evil 6, but is this the direction we want the series to be taking? Resident Evil 6 begins as Leon Kennedy, the gritty cop from Raccoon City,...
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I have always loved survival horror. I have also always loved Resident Evil, but after a couple of hit and miss movies and a complete U-turn in creative direction, it is clear that Capcom’s baby just isn’t heading in the direction is should be. Fans of the previous Resident Evil outing that was lead by RE2 leading man Leon Kennedy will obviously realise that the fifth instalment into the series ha...
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2D platformers are becoming all the craze again these days and in a way that makes me happy. The new game on the block called ‘Hell Yeah’ has come to attempt to take part in this re-growing group of gaming genres, but does this bunny bring home the bacon? From the very start of pressing the ‘GO’ button you will find that Arkedo’s new bunny mascot doesn’t take himself very seriously. The entire plo...
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Borderlands Community Page I remember the day I purchased Borderlands I was with my flat mate standing in a long, agitated queue that consisted of pig mouthed northern dudes all waiting to grab a midnight copy of the latest Call of Duty at the time. Walking into the store at the midnight launch, we finally got to the till and asked for a copy of Gearbox’s latest. The cashier person looked at us wi...
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Zombies have always been the craze in recent years. Games everywhere are attempting to embrace the undead into some kind of feature through their gameplay, or story. What you may not know is that Left 4 Dead is one of the big daddies that started the craze to begin with. Valve is a brilliant developer; it can’t be denied that these guys and gals sit down on a project for as long as possible until ...
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Sleeping Dogs Community Page It has been quite a while since we were graced with a true open world sandbox game of the likes of Grand Theft Auto. Luckily for fans of the genre, developer United Front Games has given them something to burn away a week of summer in the form of newly released Sleeping Dogs. In Sleeping Dogs you play the troubled undercover cop Wei Shen who just so happens to have bee...
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