Nearly every RPG in the last ten years has had a touted moral choice system in game. That is not to say that it didn’t exist before, but there certainly seemed to be less emphasis on it when compared to the more recent releases. It has become accepted as standard that almost every game should give you the choice to be good or evil in some way shape or form. Even action games like Infamous or FPS’s like Bioshock feel [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
