If the Guitar Hero franchise is famous for anything, its getting Rock Legends into their games. Sure Rock Band are trying really hard to do it with Beatles Rock Band, but when it gets down to the nitty gritty, GH have the upper hand on this one. This all started back in the days of Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock. Activition and Neversoft made computer generated versions of Slash from Guns ‘N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver fame, and Rage Against The [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was a game I bought a while back, but I didn’t really enjoy it. Due to the game’s freezing conditions, part of the gameplay was keeping yourself alive by collecting heat crystals that would keep up your energy – failing to collect it would leave you slowly draining until your death. The gameplay wasn’t bad – a third person shooter with decent graphics and a nice snowy setting, yet the constant drain on energy made [...]
Ingredients: 3lb of Max Payne 1 cup of Devil May Cry heavily diluted pinch of Tony Hawk or Skate 3 1/2 pints of Quentin Tarantino 3 1/2 pints of Guy Ritchie Method: Shove in a bowl, mix it up a bit and leave in Bethesda’s hands for about a year or so and you get: No I am not saying you will get a bucket of water tipped over your head. I am saying you will get new type of [...]
Games journalism has really grown for me in the past month, this has triggered a lot of thinking on my part. I mean I started Plus XP as something to vent out my opinions on games, then it soon changed to something Leon and I did. Regardless of the fan base or whatever, we love writing about games and this was the perfect place to do it. It didn’t matter if they were old or new, it was just a [...]
Whilst waiting for all those games on the horizon I stumbled across the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection which instantly took me back to my childhood. I grew up in what we call the ‘console wars’ today, the great 16-bit battle between the Sega Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo and playing both I felt I had some input here. The Sega Mega Drive was released in Japan in 1988, North America in 1989 and Europe in 1990. When the console [...]
Imagine this. You are a part of a human colonist mining ship. You are on a planet mining away until you come across a pyramid structure. The discovery of this structure alerts a race of alien warriors. This alien race don’t want what is inside the pyramid to escape, but its too late, one of the most deadliest alien species is about to be unleashed. This is the basic backbone for Aliens Vs Predator. A new first person shooter that [...]
I would expect that unless you have no interest in gaming whatsoever (in which case, why are you reading this?), you’ve more than likely heard of Final Fantasy, maybe even played some. However, if you haven’t played it, I’d think it could be a bit daunting knowing where to begin – currently with twelve main titles and even more spinoffs, choosing which title to play first could be a difficult decision – would you start from the first title? It [...]
As you may have read before, I’m not a huge fan of the Wii’s control system – I personally find it to be very gimmicky, and more often than not entirely unnecessary. It seems to result in games that are either casual and not very fun, or games that have motion controls for the sake of it. Coupled with tacky trailers of people jumping around like idiots in their coincidentally large, empty rooms, the whole Wii fad usually just bores me. [...]
There is probably a fair few people like me out there who have probably just come out of uni, noticed that the money fund is somewhere beyond zero and they are either playing the games they already have, trading them in or just saving what scraps of cash they find in the sofa to get the next to release. But what happens if you are not sure what to get next? Or you are just so board with your games [...]
Although I do play a wide range of games and try to keep an open minded view towards new concepts and titles, there will always be some games that have a special place in my heart – one of them being Castlevania. The straightforward tale of the epic struggle between the Belmont clan and the infamous Lord Dracula, that is so simple yet so spellbindingly fantastic. A tale that spans hundreds of years, Dracula always finds a way to return [...]
