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Game Anticipation: Metro 2033 trailer
17th March | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
One of the most anticipated games of the year is almost here. Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, this game places you in the role of a survivor of a nuclear fallout in Moscow, having only survived the devastation because you happened to be deep underground in the cities Metro system. Once you return to the surface, you find the world is a more dangerous, and horrific,...
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Lips: Party Classics
10th March | 0 comments | 2 people like this
It’s karaoke at its finest, this. The vast majority of these 40 songs are guaranteed to get people up and singing, and what we have here is a collection of party favourites. The only downside to this game is that it doesn’t come bundled with a microphone – you’ll need to buy it separately – but as far as the choice of songs goes, you can’t really go wrong if...
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2
10th March | 0 comments | 2 people like this
The Battlefield series of games have always been about the multiplayer mode. In fact, the first game in the series didn’t even feature a single player campaign. The world of online war-based shooters is an extremely competitive one, and in reality there are only two or three games that you would consider playing. Luckily for us, the Battlefield series is one of them, and it is with a large smile...
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Bioshock 2 review
25th February | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
All you budding deep seas divers may wish to stop reading now. If Bioshock 2 is anything to go by, life under the ocean waves isn’t quite the tranquil and peaceful place you may at first believe it to be. Forget sharks and poisonous jelly fish, they are small fry compared to the dangers that await you in the doomed underwater city of Rapture – a dystopian place that is...
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Dante’s Inferno
16th February | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Ah Dante’s Inferno, an epic poem written in the fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri as part of his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. I wonder what grandiose video game Electronic Arts have created based around this extravagant prose? Hang on a minute. A hack and slash platform game? Something must be wrong here...
Well believe it or not, Dante’s Inferno is indeed just that. It’s a bloodthirsty platformer too, with more than... -
Army of Two: The 40th Day
9th February | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
A worthy sequel to the first game in the series, Army of Two: The 40th Day is a gung ho shooter with a smattering of Gears of War about it. Trapped in a besieged city of Shanghai, you will spend the first half of the game just trying to figure out why everyone is shooting at you, and even when you do find out why, it still isn’t very clear....
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Winter Sports 2010: The Great Tournament
25th January | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
With the Winter Olympics less than a month away, it is perhaps inevitable that a host of games will be released hoping to cash in on the event. Along with the official game of the competition by Sega, we have Winter Sports 2010: The Great Tournament, an unofficial release that is produced in association with European broadcaster RTL.
Unfortunately, what we have here is a weak, limp-wristed version of Sega’s official... -
Darksiders – welcome to hell
18th January | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
It’s the end of the world, and the Four Horsemen are missing. This is the premise for the beginning of Darksiders, a game that puts you in the boots of War, one of the aforementioned horsemen. With influences from a wide variety of games that have come and gone before it, there is nothing particularly original about this post-apocalyptic action slash-‘em-up, but if you are looking for a good old...
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The Saboteur review
6th January | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Best described as a Grand Theft Auto clone set in World War 2, The Saboteur is a an over the top blastfest. You play the role of an Irishman who is living in Paris when war breaks out, who after a chance meeting with the French Resistance, takes it upon himself to single handedly liberate the city from its Nazi oppressors.
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James Cameron’s Avatar – the video game
4th January | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
A natural choice for a video game, James Cameron’s epic 3D action adventure has set new standards for how films are made. Seeing as how the Titanic director has put his stamp of approval on this, big things are naturally expected. Cameron reportedly sees the video game as much part of his Avatar vision as the film. But does it deliver on its promise?
Well unlike the film, which by all...
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Mark Pilkington
Mark is an experienced freelance writer with a background in video games, entertainment and film journalism. His work has appeared in numerous publications and websites including Filmink, 360 Gamer, Cinemania, Micro Mart and Fast Car magazine. He is a self-confessed film and video game expert, and is a walking encyclopedia of useless information. Unfortunately he's a lifelong fan of Tottenham Hotspur as well, but you cant have everything.
