14/07/2013
Between virtual Python classes I’m back on virtual Rook Island playing Far Cry 3, and having eye watering, non blinking fun. I’ve been introduced to an array of new weapons, and vehicles, from sniper rifles to flame throwers, and boats with gun turrets to the flimsy hang gliders. Even though I’ve put in 10+ hours, I have yet to open up half of the map. The option to just chill…
30/06/2013
On a chilled Sunday afternoon, who needs more than this! Mindless violence, punctuated frequently with humorous quips, while making simple decisions of light / heavy / ranged / teleport. Welcome to Deadpool. It’s easy to work through, challenging in that you’ve gotta get the solution right without needing to googling it, but most of all, it’s fun! Plus I haven’t played a more comic book style game since XIII Gaming…
30/06/2013
I’ve now played a couple of hours of The Last of US, hoping it will be a game I’ll play to completion. I am only early in to the story though, just finding my fist Clacker corpse, and **SPOLIER ALERT** why didn’t I read anywhere that Sarah dies! š I finally picked up Hawx-2 last weekend. If there is one genre I feel as not received the quality and quantity…
29/06/2013
Currently installing The Last of US, I haven’t been this intrigued by a release in a while, I’m looking forward to it!
08/06/2013
[Rating: 4] I put in a few hours of driving last week on Grid2, have elevated through the rankings, and picked up a couple of new sweet looking cars. After booting, and seeing the Activision logo memories came flooding back… of Grid, before it was Grid, the TOCA days! TOCA (Touring Car Championship) goes back to the late 90’s, and was the premier driving / racing game on the Playstation……
[Rating:0] – I can’t think of anything redeemable I wrote a post recently that I should review poor games from time to time, and this weekend is certainly it. Fast and Furious Showdown is perhaps the worst game I’ve played on a 3rd generation console. I do like driving games, and have even been known to enjoy a Fast and Furious film. I would not say that I am a…
25/05/2013
2 new games to try this week, from 2 different genres: Fast and Furious Showdown Only one rating on Metacritic,Ā 25 points by IGN This could be the worst game ever, looking forward to it š Resident Evil Revelations Circa 80% Metacritc score.This might be the game to get me through the wet weekend I have not played any driving games after my PS3 hard drive was corrupted and formatted, I…
18/05/2013
[Rating:3.5] I’ve picked up Metro – Last Light today on the PS3 I think I started a PC version a year ago??? I’ll have to look it up, remember not been too impressed. Although that could have been due to the lack of joypad š (Here it is Metr0 2033) It has decent ratings on Metacritic (82%), but then again so does every newly released title… off to play! 1st…
11/05/2013
[rating:2] Bonza! I’ve finally acquired a copy of Journey this evening. Iām enjoying the space, and the non verbal narrative reminds me of the games (ICO, Shadow of the Colossus ) that brought me to the PS3 I’m really absorbed by the look and feel… but it just doesn’t hold my attention. Or maybe not if I take this critical response at face value 1/4To3 Update I’m finding the lack…
09/05/2013
[rating:4.5] if you like video games, you will enjoy this. As a long time avid gamer it seems crazy that I’ve never played a Tomb Raider title before. I understand the premise, think I may have even watched a film, not that it was memorable. But in a way I’m quite happy to have left it until now, this Square Enix version of Tomb Raider is as close to a…
27/04/2013
After finally completing Bioshock Infinite (wow the plot explanation of the ending!), I’ve been spoiled for choice, here’s an update of new games (for me) I’ve been playing, all on the PS3. Injustice: Gods Among Us [rating:3] Nice Mortal komat based engine, with DC heros and villans. Love the balance between simple and advanced… easy to exeute the moves, a challenge to string a combo together. Best story in a…
06/04/2013
[rating:3] I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite on the PS3 over the past couple of days. A quality title, quick summary: Pro’s Having fun Elizabeth & the plot are quite engaging, well presented steam punk style, with good graphics & frame rate huge open levels Cons the battles are a bit same same an average AI side missions, but still linear I can still see myself playing through it to completion…
01/04/2013
Memory fading? I read a cool blog entry by Gerard Campbell: Game Junkie this week: Are games harder or is it just me? The focus of it being that he had to downscale the difficulty from normal to easy to complete the latest Bioshock instalment. I tried to procure a copy of the said game today, with no luck; I came back with another sniper shooter… but that’s a different…
01/04/2013
[rating:4] Article at SRK tells how over the next month Capcom are requesting suggestions from the SF gaming community, on changes they can make to characters and game play on the next game update. I hope they’re giving this one away free & we son’t have to shell out for a 4th revision of this SF incarnation! But the discussion at SRK is on more characters; so what can we…
16/03/2013
At the arse end of the 90’s, before we had streaming tunes, certainly videos over the interwebs, this video was circulated on a PS1 magazine demo disk. On a 486, I was running with speeds of 48 kbps, if I was lucky, paying AOL by the minute, on top of the phone charges. I’d just been introduced to Gnapster – the fore runner of torrents. & a mate was selling…
10/03/2013
Playing PS1 Interplay‘s r/c copter, bringing back old memories, the twitch reflex to ‘try-again’ has already kicked in š Cool review from back in ’99 here from ign When thinking how old this game is, think one of first games to require a DualShock controller.
09/03/2013
[rating:3] I have vague memories of playing a japanese copy of the original Okami. I had no instructions, not a clue what the game was about, and didn’t even know the real name of the game… think I was referring to it as ‘paint brush wolf’ at the time š Now I get to play the HD re-make! The addition of English subtitles reveals the godly ancient plot, that’s cool.…
24/02/2013
This is the 1st time I’ve heard of these Easter Eggs… ain’t the interwebs grand š Best Ending Get a COOL rating (finish the level with a cool rating) on every level and you get a new level where you watch Sunny Funny and Katy Kat dance on a table. You can change the view with the D-pad, zoom in and out with R1 and L1, and change Sunny’s and…
23/02/2013
I’ve been using CFW3.55 Hermes since I picked up my PS3, a couple of years back. Thinking it’s time to finally upgarde to Rogero CFW4.30 & see what the PS3 online gaming experience is like… or more so I can add patches to titles. As always bricking my PS3 is a danger, although I’ve never had issues on any device in the past when upgrading firmware, touch wood. So according…