With E3 drawing to a close for yet another year, I thought I’d take a little time to talk about a series and well, a man, very close to my heart. Sid Meier is responsible for perhaps the worlds best turn based strategy games, the Civilisation series. Not to mention the awesomely fun Pirates! and a whole slew of theme park and railroad games. I played almost every installment of Civilisation to death, not counting Colonization and Alpha Centuri.
The debate that has been plaguing FPS fans for what seems like centuries are First Person Shooters better on the PC or on a Console? The hardcore FPS fans out there sware by the PC, saying that using the mouse is faster and more accurate. Where console gamers like the fact that FPS games simulate shooters more by actually using your trigger finger and shooting down PC fans when they point out you can change the controller sensitivity. As for [...]
The rain beat down on the corrugated iron roof as the firs sizzled and spat as the occasional drop came through. It was cold; I could feel the wind blowing at the tattered remains of my sleeping bag and the snoozing of my compatriot across the shed from me. The door clacked on its weak hinges with a rusty metallic sound. I sighed, it was getting on for 3am, time to get some kip, Alexei would wake if something came [...]
When someone says Lara Croft, and gamer, film fanatic or indeed human would automatically think Tomb Raider, unless you have a slight obsession with Angelina Jolie, which is of corse understandable. So when the next Lara Croft game is announced your automatically going to think, ‘oooo another tomb raider!’ well this time I am afraid you are wrong. Yes there is a new Lara Croft game coming out, b ut it isn’t a tomb raider title. Let me shed some [...]
Welcome back to Chernobyl Comrade… *somewhere over the Ukraine* I sat back and drank the last of my brand of El president Rum. Leaving Tropico was hard. The beach, the sun, the women… I leaned over to where Garv was playing on his DS. “How-much longer until we’re in London?” I slurred. “Uhhh, yeah, about that…” he said, putting Professor Leighton down. “You’re not going to London Beanie, you’re ah, no longer recognised as a UK citizen. Sorry…” “Bwuh!? But, [...]
As you already know, Portal is one of those Xbox Live Arcade games that will never ever be wiped off my Xbox Hardrive. Even though the game itself isn’t that huge. The whole idea, game play and the very story telling is fantastic and something I have never come across before or since the games release. So who can imagine my epic excitement when I heard about portal 2′s conformation yesterday. The beautiful people at Game Informer magazine gave us [...]
The sun shone down on the golden sands of Tropico as I longed on the beach with a cool glass of coconut milk. Then, out of the blur that was the background, a figure approached. “El Presidente, there is a man here to see you.” “Urgh, tell the US ambassador I’m not going to praise them unless they give us the plan to the power plant!” “Er, president, he is not an American, he is British, says he says he [...]
Well, it’s December and that means we’re being bombarded with more games, gadgets and gizmos than you can shake a stick at. And leading the charge for the RPG genre is Biowares’ latest fantasy epic: Dragon Age Origins. Now, the reason why this is a first impressions rather than a review, is that I haven’t finished the game yet…after 70 hours. I haven’t even got a 3rd of the way through what the game has to offer in its total [...]
After Garvaos’ encounter with Dragon Age Orinins at Eurogamer and That Bloke In The Beanies’ newest RPG chrush. The two gamers decide to talk about this latest RPG fernominon in Plus XP’s first game disscussion. Garv: Well my main gripe about Dragon Age is that I played the console version, my god it royally sucks on there maybe it’s a translation problem but I didn’t get on with it at all Beanie: The 360 version I assume? Garv: Indeed, and [...]
The first person shooter genre, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps the cradle of civilization for modern gaming. There were many games before, some good some bad, but none gave the popularity to gaming that the FPS did. Wolfenstein 3D was the first, but it was Doom that set the standard which was then adopted by Quake and every other FPS. It’s been nearly 20 years since the blocky grey trend setter graced our screens and its many children wriggled their way [...]
