Someone To Drive You Home

With the year over I’m going to quickly churn through some of the important games of 2011 that I missed out. The problem with most sequels is that they are basically the same with a few tweaks and portal 2 defiantly has that but it brings a great cast along for the ride this time [...]

XBLA titles are generally quite throwaway. I say this as someone who originally was quite keen on Arcade stuff at the start of this generation. If they’re not twin stick shooters then it’s a puzzle game or a really shit platformer (which is a genre which needs to go away). Anyway originality are not XBLAs [...]

Child of Eden is one of the worst games ever made, yeah I know pretty hyperbolic right but allow me to elaborate. Not only is it not very good but it has made me question if Rez was actually any good. This is the videogame equivalent of a existential crisis. My line of logic on [...]

Brink There’s a dearth of multiplayer shooters in this generation. Brink aims to snatch you away from those with a combination of class based shooting and a unique traversal system. The game technically has a single player component but it’s just the MP with bots which brings me to my first point. It’s a risky [...]

I’m not a fighting game guy. I like them in concept but learning all the moves and getting deep into the mechanics isn’t something I’ve ever done. I totally get why that might be rewarding and something some people enjoy but requires too much focus for my liking. Mortal Kombat does some great things for [...]

I meant to write something about this last week, but all I really want to say is it’s crap. Ok… I’l say why too. First off what’s cool about robots like the terminator? Is it that he’s got feelings and he cares about his pals? Nope, its because he’s a cold calculating machine who goes straight for the jugular [...]