With the summer seeming still so far away this week EA invites us to celebrate the cold weather in style as they release to us the first look gameplay trailer of the new SSX. Now coming with the tag line ‘Defy reality. Own the planet.’ this trailer shows us much more about what we can expect from our next downhill adventure. Wait though, because it does not stop there. Though this is the first official gameplay trailer to be released, [...]
I must admit that the title may be reactionary, but this week EA have announced that they are planning to join Ubisoft in ditching their video games instruction booklets in order to cut their printed materials down by 40%. All well and good for the environment, but is it the way forward? I know that I can’t speak for all of the gamers out there as I write this, but when it comes to video games, films, comics, graphic novels [...]
When I play a game, I am always up for a bit of a challenge. I look at some FPS titles and can’t help but whack the difficulty up to max and count the seconds it takes for me to get totally disemboweled by zombies or space aliens. Even though I do like the challenge I am never that great at it, Games are supposed to be fun at the end of the day, this is why I play them. [...]
This weekend saw the first ever Games Blog Live at The Guardian offices in London, so Jokesound and Myself, accompanied with a host of Gaminglives.com guys hit the event to see what tasty treats we could get our hands on and what EA had to say about Dragon Age II, Crysis 2 and Shift 2: Unleashed.
Back in October last year the Plus XP team hit the Eurogamer expo at Earls Court in london. The three-day gaming extravaganza showed us games coming out round the Christmas period and early 2011. One of the games I kept going back to throughout the weekend was Bulletstorm. I went to the expo knowing next to nothing about this video game. So when I first picked up the controller I was expecting another generic FPS game, you know like COD [...]
Two things kept me sane during the opening weeks of my first year of university. These were GTA Liberty City Stories and SSX on tour. You see during these first precious weeks of term when I should have been out exploring the various delights of student life with my fellows I found myself stricken with the dreaded freshers flu. To make things worse it was during these particular weeks the university experienced something of a spectacular snowstorm. Confined to my [...]
Everybody call off the search, somebody’s finally managed to find the fun in First Person Shooters. After a few years of stiff, stony faced shooters with balding and grisly protagonists with naff stories you’re meant to take seriously and a bog standard weaponry of submachine guns, pistols and machine guns, I’ve started to tire of the genre. So I was probably more thankful than anyone that People Can Fly came to the Eurogamer Expo with their next title, ‘Bulletstorm’. After [...]
Before I launch into my hands on experience with Dead Space 2 I think it is fair to say here that I really didn’t play Dead Space 1 all that much, and after playing the Demo of Dead Space 2 I am kind of regretting it. Why didn’t I play/like Dead Space 1? Mas is because I couldn’t get on with the dismemberment mechanic? Or was it down to the fact that I failed at the first hurdle on the [...]
When I play a game, I am always up for a bit of a challenge. I look at some FPS titles and can’t help but whack the difficulty up to max and count the seconds it takes for me to get totally disemboweled by zombies or space aliens. Even though I do like the challenge I am never that great at it, Games are supposed to be fun at the end of the day, this is why I play them. [...]
Just child’s play? Well the new year is upon us and after a slightly longer break than anticipated I feel it is due time for some reviews. After much thought on what my first full review of the year should be (and honestly, it was a difficult choice) I decided it was only right to kick off 2010 with a closer look at the newest offering from the rock band family. Yes, I know its kinda predictable, but it is [...]
