The ridiculous thing about this retrospective is that I bothered to play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at all. I love the damned thing of course, but I’ve reached the point where playing it is entirely redundant. It’s not like I expected to find anything new. In fact, I’m all but certain that there isn’t anything new to see. I’ve stumbled across every single route, bust open every box and collected every ring. I may as well sit beneath a bodhi…
SEGA have sent through the official launch trailer for Sonic Generations, bucking the recent trend in ‘launch’ trailers by being released somewhat close to the actual release date (Uncharted 3 we’re looking at you. Well, actually, we’ve been looking at you for two weeks and waiting for you to get to it, but whatever).
There are two fantastically obscure simulation games sitting on my desk at the moment which I have been having a play around with. They are FIM Speedway Grand Prix 4 and London Underground Simulator. Hit the jump for some mini verdicts on both.
For over a decade, Serious Sam has been the badass, gun toting, laugh inducing pin-up icon of the first person shooter genre. Settled quite happily in this field, the series has received rather generous reviews, flourished through a committed fan base, and grown from a once PC-only title into to a multi-platform epic. But Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is different. It’s not an FPS.
I think Ben and myself are going to be fighting it out over who gets to review this one, maybe we will have our very own real life version of tower defence to decide who gets it. Anyway, in this trailer (via RPS) we see Ezio looking old as he gets involved in a spot of ‘den defence’ in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Didn’t expect Ezio to get involved in that sort of thing, but I guess it works with the ever expanding city management game that the Assassin’s titles seem to be developing into.
Coming from iD Software – the creators of the FPS genre as we know it – comes their latest release – RAGE – a game with 20 years of shooting pedigree and some of the most well known figures in the industry working away on it’s innards. No pressure then.
Since its release in March 2011 Trion Worlds hasn’t been shy in bringing out new content for its Rift player base. In just seven months five content patches have been released bringing in new raids, dungeons and various updates and bug fixes to the gameplay features. They have also given bonus items to players who have continued to ‘pay and play‘ gaining percentage increases on experience, personal vendors and vanity items for their characters to wear. But is this all…
I have long pondered the role of review scores, do people like them? If so, do they like scores out of 5 or 10, maybe a rating out of 100? What about An A-F scale, or perhaps something a bit more off the wall like ours?. Or finally, do people not bother with the actual rating and make do with the words of the review? Hit the jump for a poll and more words.
If you want to relive the amazing Rugby World Cup that came to end with a thrilling final which saw New Zealand win by a point from France, then you may as well try out Rugby Challenge, a decent little rugby game from New Zealand developers, Sidhe.
I imagine you are all wondering where a few of our reviews are hiding, conspicuous in their absence are RAGE, Arkham City and Battlefield 3. Well, let me give you all a little update about where we are with these games.