As I start to delve deeper into the Android store on my tablet, I will be looking to do more mini Verdicts of small lightweight mobile games and full scale Verdicts on the more in-depth titles. After the break you will find two mini Verdicts of free-to-play title Temple Run 2 and Ubisoft’s £1.99 title Rayman Jungle Run.
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.
The debate over gaming’s six to ten rating problem rages on and the current spokesperson for the prosecution seems to be Metacritic co-founder Marc Doyle. Having recently revealed that Metacritic has de-listed games review sites in the past for ‘corrupt practices’, he has also taken time to suggest that, actually, the games review scale is being undermined by the fact that not enough games journalists are “review[ing] all the sh*t”.
I’ve been following Shawn Elliot’s reviews symposium lately. It’s basically a series of articles where some far better writers than I discuss the given topic, responding to each other’s thoughts on the matter. It’s a very interesting read, and the most recent one covered review policy practice and ethics; an area I touched upon briefly a few months ago. I’m not nearly as experienced a journalist (or, frankly, even a journalist at all) as these chaps, but I think I’ll…
If Serious Games were to take the form of an anthropomorphic animal from an 80s before-church-on-Sunday cartoon, they would be Willy Fogg from Around the World with Willy Fogg. Before I sat down, cross legged, uncomfortably close to the electric heater, with the bowl of Weetabix Mum had conjured, I would press the sticky button for Fogg and contemplate his mission – to complete a full circumnavigation of the world in 80 days, with recourse only to Victorian-era technology, while…