Contributed by Helen Doherty Okamiden is a Capcom RPG for the Nintendo DS. It was released in America on the 15th March, (and Europe two days later), and is a sequel to the critically acclaimed PS2/Wii title Okami. I won’t say too much about the story so as not to spoil things for those of you intending to play this, but I will say it is set 9 months after the events of the original. It is considered an indirect [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Robot Unicorn Attack is a game most of you will already be familiar with. One of this year’s biggest hits, its camp charms came leaping unto the AdultSwim website in February, where it has so far achieved over 32 million plays. June saw the launch of its iPhone port, which proved so successful it inspired two recently launched reskins : Heavy Metal Edition and Christmas Edition. It is these iPhone versions of the game that this [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Crystal Defenders is, along with Voice Fantasy, part of a wave of Square-Enix apps to recently arrive on the iPhone. This fun little game has previously been released on everything from the iPod Nano to the Xbox (as a Live Arcade title), and its easy to see how its simple tower defence gameplay could be easily adapted to so many formats. It is more overtly connected to the Final Fantasy series than Voice Fantasy, lifting many [...]
It is very simple to compare a game like Nintey Nine Nights to the Dynasty Warriors games both the games have the same sort of game play and mission based system. The idea behind these games is to take down armies of soldiers and complete objectives to win a war against your foes. So as you can imagine with these type of games you get a stupid amount of soldiers coming towards you and you have to fight them all [...]
That Bloke with the beanies 38 hour gaming roundup, or Metro 2033 and Resonance of Fate reviews… The smell of oil and decay hung heavy in the air as I made my way down the barely lit tunnel. I scanned the walls and ceiling for any Dark Ones ready to turn me into their next meal. The endless drip, drip, drip from water seeping through from the world above echo around my skull in time with my heartbeat. Suddenly a [...]
The last couple of days, I have been making the most of my Xbox LIVE 48 hour Gold Trial. Every chance I have had I have been playing the Halo: Reach Beta. And am I disappointed? Hell no! Lets just cut to the chase here and dive straight into what the Beta has to offer, Now as you all well know I was only on a LIVE play trial, not a gold account, this means I could not play in [...]
Complete review Before the review an apology. I love Bioshock. Forgive my reminiscences but I feel compelled to tell you that when descending into rapture for the first time in Bioshock 1 I was completely unprepared for what I was to find. I expected gore, I expected fear, however to be met by the scene of a splicer being brutally drilled through the stomach left me feeling three distinct emotions. Firstly fear at the thought that at some time in [...]
The Final Verdict. Well I have kept my promise. It seems like a long time ago now that I was giving you all the low down on the Van Halen Demo but after a lot of strumming, a few harsh failures (and a bit of sneaky Bioshock 2) I am back to give Guitar Hero Van Halen its final Verdict. I feel that the phrase ‘Final Verdict’ is very appropriate when reviewing this game, for more reasons than one. Many [...]
While I am on the subject of Dante’s Inferno, I gave the demo a whirl to see if the game had any more surprises for me. As you all probably know I had a hands on preview with the game at Eurogamer ’09. So when I came to download the demo off XBox LIVE. I was pretty much expecting the same demo I played at Eurogamer. Oh how wrong I was. This demo showed me the very start of the [...]
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 [...]
