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.
I’ll come out and say that I have been blown away by Far Cry 3 from what I have played so far, I thought that it had a lot of potential from when I played it at the Eurogamer Expo, but that was limited to the open world and was only a relatively short experience. Playing Far Cry 3 in all its glory shows you what a brilliant game it really is. Note that this is only a Verdict based…
One of my long standing memories of my childhood is watching the Royal Rumble in 2000 which featured amazing moments with groups like DX and wrestlers like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. I didn’t have Sky during the legendary Attitude era of the WWE, but I caught Sunday Night Heat whenever I could and I loved what I saw. While there are some great performers in the company these days, nothing will ever quite match the glory days…
The keys to the Halo engine have been passed on from Bungie to 343 Industries and for the first time since 2007, Master Chief is back! With the Chief of course comes Cortana and the usual sense of feeling that if those two were not in the right place at the right time, the universe would be a whole different place.
“Wake me when you need me” – Master Chief, Halo 3
History is a funny thing. Napoleon said “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Easily misread, misunderstood or misinterpreted, it is written by the victors and those who do not remember it are condemned to repeat it. Perhaps that is why Assassin’s Creed III comes to deliver a bloody rendition of the American Revolutionary War in video game format.
Football Manager 2013 is, as the cliché goes, a tale of two halves. The first half is the traditional full-fat version of the game filled with team talks, copious amounts of media interaction and extensive scouting capabilities. The second half is a lightweight ‘Classic’ mode where the teams come out wearing a totally different strip and don’t have to worry about their manager pissing them off with poorly judged team talks and receive support from various challenges. In short, this years edition of Sports Interactive’s long running management sim offers and experience suitable to a much wider audience than ever before.
When I talk about what I am currently playing to my friends at work I often get some strange looks when I talk about what obscure game I am in the middle of. Over the past couple of weeks these looks have come about from Euro Truck Simulator 2, a game which I am not afraid to say I have actually been really quite enjoying. It isn’t the kind of game that would ever attain the famed Red Mist rating…
I had been looking forward to Dishonored for quite some time, my interest first piqued when the initial batch of concept art was released last year and further heightened with the commencing deluge of gameplay trailers and my hands on experience of the game at the Eurogamer Expo. When I came to play the full game, I feared I would be let down, I wasn’t. This review is as spoiler free as I could make it, apologies for anything I…
Being a small child related to a mad scientist is not easy. At least when the scientist is a recluse, you are spared the indignities of being experimented upon, of being ordered to pull the switches or feeding the unspeakable horror in the tank but when you are dropped off at your uncle’s ridiculously extensive manor, everything inevitably goes horribly wrong and of course you have to be the one to fix it. In Quantum Conundrum by Airtight Games, you…
The land of Westeros. An island of lords and serfs, castles and whore houses. One fat and lusty king rules seven kingdoms which threaten to tear themselves apart at any minute if endless hordes of wild folk, the walking dead and worse do not pour over a 500 foot-high Wall and destroy everything in their path first. And here I am walking from tedious cutscene to tedious cutscene and occasionally hitting men until they fall over.
This is the Game of Thrones ‘action adventure roleplaying game’ by Cyanide Studio. Confusion is understandable. So far there is this; the real-time-strategy game Game of Thrones: Genesis; a collectible card game; a living card game; and a board game (which is like Risk+ and is awesome, by the way).
GoT is set from a year before the beginning of the books/TV series up to about half way through the first book/season. It is an intertwining story of two primary characters: a Nights Watchman called Mors (he of the men who guard the gigantic wall of ice in the North) and Ser Alester, a knight of a minor house sworn to House Lannister and a red priest of R’yllor who has recently returned from a self-imposed exile across the sea. In the game’s fifteen chapters, control and story is alternated between the two characters.