Frequent readers of Plus XP will no doubt know that I love the GTA franchise, my love for the series first started when I played GTA III. Since then I have played every GTA game that Rockstar has bestowed on the gaming public. I had very mixed feelings of GTA IV. The game play and the look of the whole game was fantastic, but I didn’t think that Nicko was a strong protagonist, however the expansions had far stronger protagonists [...]
I warn you now that this could be a very controversial subject; for one thing GTA IV is awesome, so don’t get me wrong when you read this article. I am not here to say no other GTA game is better than GTA 3 due to the fact they all have their merits, but I always got back to GTA 3 and this is why. Back in the mythical time of 2001, I went around one of my friends’ houses [...]
I love sandbox games, from the likes of GTA to Crackdown every sandbox game has a place in my heart somewhere. Even State of emergency that was released back 2002 was a pretty good sandbox even though people were comparing it to GTA (which is quite frankly the god of the sand box). Recently the sandbox has taken a turn. Superpowers have taken the lime light when it comes to sandbox games now. Titles such as Prototype, Crackdown and InFamous [...]
For a long time I have been in love with the Grand Theft Auto series, and in my opinion it is the best of the sandbox genre. Even though you are a normal human being with no super powers, crazy wall climbing or free running skills, you do have a whole city and an exceptional variety of vehicles and weapons to play with. GTA III was ahead of its time and with the addition of ‘The Lost and The Damned’ [...]
Ok so a little bit of background history about me. Before I got into games journalism and indeed Plus XP, I was majorly into my films, heck I am still today. I mainly thank my Dad for that, every weekend while I was living at my parents house my Dad would stick on a movie, old or new that I hadn’t seen. It’s quite funny having conversations with my friends and I suddenly ask have you seen the original 1940′s Metropolis [...]
When it comes to sandbox games I have a bit of a strange mindset. What I want from a sandbox game is freedom, surprisingly for me some of the well-known and popular sandbox games don’t have te type of freedom I want. Take GTA San Andreas. Loads of people loved that game because there was so much you could do in it. For me though, it had way too much content for my liking. The whole idea of eating food [...]
The gaming world every week has something new and exciting to announce, whether it’s the latest scoop on games such as Halo Reach or Mario Galaxy 2, or the latest developments on things like Project Natal and the 3DS. Looking round all the gaming sites, everyone seems to be happy or excited about something. But last week shock and horror hit me like a proverbial brick to the face, as I heard, that finally, after its 10 year reign of [...]
I have read countless amounts of reviews for the Grand Theft Auto IV Expansions. Both The Lost And The Damned and The Ballad Of Gay Tony have pretty much hit the mark with us gaming critics, which is all well and good. But most of the sites out there have glanced over the fact that both these episodes are now available as a stand alone disc, As I got this neat little package from Santa this Christmas I thought it [...]
l fools, gta, wii, bioshockYesterday as is tradition for the first of April. The world went prank mad. And as always the gaming side of things had the pranks rolling in. Now i have been gaming long enough to realize an April fools announcement when i see one. And yesterday was not a surprise. Mind you one of the concepts that was announced sounded pretty convincing. But it was one of those too cool to be true things. I am of course talking about the expand channel which was announced [...]
IMO parents need to observe what they are letting their kids buy, or even what they ar buying for their kids
