NecroVisioN is a shooter based on the Painkiller principle of giving you a scary variety of weaponry and a whole load of boss battles. That isn’t a bad thing though, I thoroughly enjoyed Painkiller, and while it was no Deus Ex, it was certainly enjoyable. So too is Necrovision, it certainly isn’t a game for [...]

My spleen began to swell when I read that Empire: Total War’s elite units – for which Creative Assembly tactically charges an extra £5 to receive – would feature in multiplayer. I’m now overflowing with bilious fluids, in desperate need of a draining. Listen to my complaints, dear doctor, and distract me long enough to [...]

Found this over on Offworld; Mirror’s Edge 2D, in 2D, done by Brad ‘Fancypants‘ Borne in collaberation with EA, in 2D. What’s that? A minor (albeit excellent) indie dev getting help by the big boys? I wonder how on earth the game might play out. Maybe it’s a mess with EA’s fingerprints smudged all over [...]

In a move that I can only assume is inspired by their soon to be bought pals Eidos, Square Enix have announced that they will be bringing their games to Steam, starting with The Last Remnant on April 9th.  Possibly only in North America, the press release is sending mixed messages about that.
I am a [...]

Dawn of War 1 was a veritable classic in the real time strategy genre, a vibrant, violent, visceral explosion of all out mayhem. There’s nothing quite like it out there. Dawn of War 2 shares many of its elder brother’s traits, with some interesting improvements of its own. But the bosses are rubbish.
DoW II off-line/coop [...]

I took last week off. I’m allowed to, it’s in the contract I didn’t sign when I joined The Reticule.
Following some of the comments from the last column, I felt that perhaps I owed Dungeons and Dragons another go. A lot of people in the comments seemed to think I was being needlessly [...]

NecroVisioN is taking the unprecedented step of giving us a World War One shooter that takes us away from the tedium of the trenches and into a hellish world of undead and other strange beings. What do I think of the game after playing the demo…read on to find out.

As any of you who have read my poorly defended justifications about strategy games will know, I’m really bad at strategy games. That’s been said. Which makes my increasingly frequent writeups of strategy game demos apparently very strange. But there’s two reasons why I’m not nearly so bad at Total War games, and another two [...]