One of my favorite game franchises on the PS2 was Max Payne. The mixture of film noir narrative and great 3rd person shooter action made for a highly addictive game, that I spent countless hours playing. Plus the fact you were able to shoot down half a room of bad guys in slow motion was just the icing on the cake.
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve been privy to the adventures of the manly men of the Gears of War franchise and testosterone levels so high and events so ridiculous I literally wouldn’t blink if the Gears stripped half-naked and showed off their glistening muscles in a volleyball match against the locust inside a riftworm during a razorhail storm. Literally none of those things will make sense to any newcomers to the series. In a move much like [...]
The 3rd person shooting genre for me is a hard genre to get around. I have always been brought up with FPS games. So when seeing the camera behind the protagonist as opposed to seeing the whole game through a first person view in a shooting game it feels a bit strange for me. With that said I have grown a custom to the 3rd person shooter when I played Gears Of War. That game brought a whole new breed [...]
Every now and then I get bombarded with politics. Oh look the americans have gone to war and we have gone to help them. Oh look there is a new president person for the American people, oh look I have to tick a box to say which man I want running the country, I’ll just pick the guy with the better hair. To be honest, even though some of it does interest me, most of the time I would rather [...]
3rd person shooters are a mixed bag with me. I love Max Payne possible one of the greatest 3rd person shooters there is. I have tried my hand at Gears Of War and I really did get into it. Thing was I lost all my save data mid way through 1 and couldn’t be bothered to start again. (I must pick that up again some time) but there are some just some 3rd person shooters that don’t cut the mustard [...]
