Recommending Killing Floor is ultimately difficult. It feels dated, plays like a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 (who’d have thought?!) and hasn’t got the polish you’d expect off a modern retail title. I have had quite a lot of fun with it. It can be enjoyable, it really can. But it’s neither particularly deep, nor do I see it having much lasting potential You and five of your mouthy British mates are dropped in an open location infested with the…
Bethesda very nearly lost me for good with the last attempt at DLC. It really was genuinely atrocious. Thankfully, The Pitt proves a far more worthwhile, interesting and enjoyable experience. Technicalities regarding its use of Games For Windows Live weren’t much of an issue this time around – the experience of getting it running last time wasn’t repeated. But I’m sure there’s a better way of doing it in future once the deal with Microsoft runs out. Steam anyone? Anyway….
As promised, here’s my review of the new Fallout 3 DLC – Operation: Anchorage. Since getting hold of it is a less than simple process, I’ve also written extensively on how to buy it/get it running here. Anyway. As you who were here at The Reticule’s founding will know, I really liked Fallout 3. As those of you who read my post the other day, I really hate GFWL. The latter is truer than ever. And in all honesty, Operation…
My review of Operation : Anchorage is not a positive one. Read it here. If you still think you want to buy it, I’ve put together a guide on how to do so – because this in itself is not simple, and a few things that may come in useful if you do. —Buying The Darn Thing— You need some Microsoft points first off – as in, the same points (no, not Gamerscore as I’ve seen some people asking in…
Bethesda have released a few bits of information and and a patch for all you intrepid wastelanders out there. First off, there’s the patch here (and patch notes here). They’ve also put up an entry on their blog giving us a release date of January 27th for the first batch of DLC (Operation Anchorage). Rather more subersively, the patch installs Games for Windows Live, regardless of your intention, or lack of, to buy the DLC. While the DLC looks nice,…
Today, Bethesda announced further additions to Fallout 3, including the previously planned DLC quests, and more importantly to us PC gamers, a construction set, cheekily named the G.E.C.K. Here’s the official press release.
It may just be a reworking of the engine that powered Oblivion, but Fallout 3 is a startlingly beautiful game. Maybe it’s the whole ‘destroyed beauty’ bollocks Cliffy B (Dude Huge *sigh*) was going on about when Gears of War still looked promising, but there’s something about looking at the wasteland and feeling yourself a little moved.
This post may contain minor spoilers I have always been incredibly boring when it comes to holidays. I don’t do photos. In fact, given the chance, I will avoid being in the general proximity of a camera just in case it catches my image. Most of the time, however, I can’t avoid them, so I have to make do with whining every time a photograph is taken. I tell you this because, despite my inbuilt hatred of photography,…
The real appeal of post-apocalyptic literature, film and games is not altogether easy to explain. To see the world in ruins, to see society smashed and turned to ash and dust; the desperate remnants of humanity clinging on to the remains of the day is peculiarly alluring. What is it exactly? The complete absence of law and order; in gaming allowing the player a sense of complete freedom maybe? Is it the haunting reflection of paradise fallen? Maybe it’s just…