Eurogamer this weekend has been definitely a weekend to remember. Getting a chance to get my grubby gaming mitts on all the upcoming games has really put a huge geeky smile on my face. But much like last year, it’s not all about getting your hands on the games. There are also the developer sessions, where you and about five hundred other gamers pack into a room and are given a presentation by a games developer on their next big [...]
I have been looking through the Plus XP archive and I have realised that me being the keen FPS player I am, I haven’t mentioned anything about Rage yet. Now seeing as id software is one of the grandfathers of the FPS genre and they have indeed been working on Rage for a long time. So what is Rage? Are we going to see if this is the next FPS marvel from the original creators of the FPS genre? Well [...]
For the past week or so now I have pretty much been playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo non-stop. Being as skint as I am, I need to get my hands on all the free gaming I can at the moment. So as I ploughed my way through countless amounts of zombies and the undead, I got thinking - Is Left 4 Dead a welcome return to the classic style First Person Shooter (FPS)? Let me lay down some facts [...]
I have been a skint graduate student for a fair old while now, so when the demo for Wolfenstein was eventually available for us silver Xbox Liver’s I was pleased to actually get my hands on the thing. For me the Wolfenstein franchise has been one of the classic FPS game series that will have a little place in my heart, probably due to the fact it is pretty much the grandaddy of all First Person Shooters. So what does [...]
