With the hype for christmas building I find myself in the mood for reminiscing. Guitar Hero 3, my first ever Gh title was in fact a christmas present. Therefore this seems like a perfect time to look back over all of those songs which brightened many a long and tedious winter day. I refused to buy the greatest hits disk because I disagree with the choice of songs it offered (quite frankly I thought I could have chosen better with [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Nostalgic memories are something that we all hold close to our hearts. Looking back through the rose tinted glasses, the warm fuzzy feelings that come with it and the forced ignorance of any faults that the memory may have had. Today I’m going to taking a look back at perhaps the most interesting pieces of nostalgia in my past: The Oddworld quintology, starting with Abe’s Oddysee. I was lucky enough to play this in 98 just under a year after [...]
Me being the FPS junkie that I am, you would expect that I would be going absolutely nuts over this title. Well take a seat because quite frankly I am not. (shock, horror) But this is not because I am disappointed or dreading this release or anything like that. I’m just not one of these guys who is a huge Call Of Duty or indeed War game fan. I have played both Modern Warfare and World At War, but I [...]
Unless you’ve been living on Saturn for the past 16 years you can’t fail to have seen, tried and even enjoyed the long-running FIFA series developed by Electronic Arts. Though we’ve seen a few humdrum releases in the past decade FIFA 10 is a much more definitive release and frankly fails to disappoint. At long last the developers are starting to fully utilize the full high-definition graphics capabilities of both the XBOX 360 and PS3, with the result that player, [...]
With every generation comes a battle of consoles – the clash between Sega and Nintendo with the Mega Drive and the SNES, later with the Sony taking the mantle as Nintendo’s N64 rival with the Playstation. Then the Playstation 2 dominated the gaming world, as Nintendo remained steady with the GameCube, and Microsoft entered the ring with the Xbox. But where are we now? It’s a constant discussion, between friends and ‘fanboys’ – which, ultimately, is the best console? Microsoft’s [...]
No, Not He man before you start chanting it. So as you can see the Ghost Busters movie’s are one of my favorites and have been pretty much all through my childhood. So when Xbox LIVE finally got the demo of the game, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first movie, I had to really jump on that bandwagon. Now this is one of the few game I have deliberately done research on. This is mainly because a film to [...]
For me a good chunk of my past weekend has been devoted to one of my favorite sports, Grifball. The sport where you brandish destructive melee weapons and plant bombs in goals, then watch them explode as they take out the opposing team with them. No I am not some crazy masochist, this is a glorious sport that has been created for Halo 3, and today I am gonnafill you in on what this sport is and tell you what [...]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are other first-person titles other than Halo or Call of Duty, with all the hype and attention they get, but maybe its just the fact that I’m not really a huge fan of the genre in general. However, being a journalist I do my best to cover anything that might be interesting to you. However, last Friday saw the release of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Dragon Rising is the sequel to Operation Flashpoint: Cold [...]
I’ll admit I’m a fairly new addition to the gaming world. I only started gaming properly in 94/95 and even then I was limited to my wee lil Sega Master system and the few games that came with it. Most of my early gaming experiences of games with more complexity came from watching my friends play on their PCs, Mega Drive, and N64. In time I got my hands on more consoles and eventually my own PC, allowing me to [...]
Me being the halo fan I am, I was extremely happy to get my hands on my very own copy of Halo 3: ODST. The Halo franchise is that important to me I couldn’t help myself thinking that this would be the release of the year for me. So has it lived up to my high expectations? Or should I just orbitally drop this title into the nearest bargain bin? Story mode sees you taking on the Role of an [...]
