Most people out there see me as a gamer geek, it’s not surprising really as I run a video game review site. However there is another side to my geeky nature and that’s my love for anime, or Japanimation as I like to call it. So when Tecmo Koei and Namco Bandai posted Plus XP a copy of Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 to review, you could probably imagine my excitement
It’s funny how your hear about things pretty much last minute. This past weekend our video contributor MarkBOSS told me about an amusement and gaming expo happening this week at the Excel center in London. So this past Tuesday I put on my gaming journalism hat and hit the Excel center. Now this was only my second ever expo, and compared to Eurogamer, this was pretty different, it was also a lot quieter for one thing. As this was an [...]
Dragonball Z is perhaps the perfect anime to be converted into a fighting game – with the series devoted to almost nothing but powering up and having epic fights with more and more powerful villains, it lends itself to the genre perfectly. The two main series’ that I have enjoyed are DBZ: Budokai, and DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi on the PS2. Budokai featured a simple side-on view and lush graphics, the third installment with the biggest range of characters and plenty of [...]
