Review: Limbo: For better or worse, the hype machine gets it right
Posted by Chris Evans in Console, Featured, Gaming, Reviews, Xbox 360 on 26. Jul, 2010 | 7 Comments
I’ve been waiting for Limbo for four years, from when I was first shown the original trailer and concept art. Since then, it’s all been worryingly silent, to the point where I feared the project would never see the light of day. Imagine my surprise then, when I woke up to find that [...]
Hands-on: FIFA 11
Posted by James Dilks in Console, Hands-on impressions, PS3, Previews, Xbox 360 on 24. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Having reinvented FIFA in its 2009 edition, and refined it well last year, the fact that David Rutter’s first utterance on FIFA 11 included that second R-word wasn’t surprising. It’s understandable that refinement is a key word, after all we’re constantly reminded of FIFA 10’s Metacritic score. It also shouldn’t surprise that EA present their [...]
Interview: David Rutter (FIFA 11)
Posted by James Dilks in Console, Gaming, Interviews, PS3, Xbox 360 on 24. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
I had the chance to speak to David, a producer at EA Sports Canada, at a recent presentation of new features for FIFA 11. Here’s what I managed to get out of him.
Would it be fair to say that because FIFA is a yearly product, the number of features you can add are limited somewhat?
Yes [...]
Review: Crackdown 2’s carefree sandbox gameplay continues to delight
Posted by Thomas Walters in Console, Reviews, Xbox 360 on 20. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Crackdown 2, like its predecessor, is an object lesson in game design. I’d normally try to maintain a little more mystery in the opening paragraph of a review, but in this case I think its best to get my feelings out in the open from the off.
The game casts you as a superpower policeman working [...]
100 Word Review: Risk Factions
Posted by Chris Evans in 100-Word Reviews, Console, Gaming, Reviews, Xbox 360 on 13. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
Converting a board game into a video game is tricky process. Risk: Factions attempts to straddle that line by having both a faithful recreation of the original game and a newly designed campaign mode. The two sit a little oddly together, with the cartoon characters and comedy dialogue jarring somewhat with the methodical, [...]
Review: Skate 3 good at skateboarding, bad at economics
Posted by James Dilks in Console, Gaming, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 on 12. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
The important information is minimal. The Skate series has two completely brilliant aspects; its control system and the sense of satisfaction it conveys. I’ll try to get across how these two work together to create an enjoyable experience. The game manages to be a more appropriate mapping of various aspects of skateboarding than any ridiculous [...]
Review: Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4
Posted by Chris Evans in Console, PS3, Reviews, Wii, Xbox 360 on 11. Jul, 2010 | 2 Comments
After two Lego Star Wars games, two Lego Indiana Jones games and Lego Batman, it’s fair to expect the formula to be going a little stale by now. It’s a formula that is mostly unchanged for Lego Harry Potter – use different characters abilities to advance through levels, find a multitude of collectables, then return [...]
Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Console, PS3, Reviews, Wii, Xbox 360 on 04. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
To describe it as an annus horribilis for world golf’s most talented player would be an understatement. Electronic Arts have stuck by their man, though, and although forced to share the boxart with Irish wunderkind McIlroy, this year’s instalment in the long-running series arrives bang on schedule.
Questions deserve to be asked, however, about whether [...]
Preview: Child of Eden shows Kinect can do more than just Wii clones
Posted by Chris Evans in Console, E3 2010, Gaming, Previews, Xbox 360 on 23. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
While Microsoft’s press conference left me entirely unconvinced by Kinect, Ubisoft’s conference peaked my interest within seconds. Watching Tetsuya Mizuguch stood in front of Kinect was like watching a conductor in front of an orchestra. After all the promotional videos from Microsoft showing Minority Report levels of control, finally here is something showing what the [...]
