So, just finished Fahrenheit. It was good stuff, actually – flawed, yes – but still very, very good. I didn’t even mind the sub-Nickelback “rawk” that played over the end credits. I’m tempted to say that it’s unlike any game I’ve played, although a couple of things tell me stop short of making such a […]

In the interest of, erm, not getting any retro gaming done for days I went ahead and got F.E.A.R. On the downside, it’s one of those games where so far the pallette consists solely of brown and grey; i hope it’s not all dingy warehouses and industrial settings. However, it is seriously atmospheric. Enemies aren’t […]

As I may have mentioned here and there, I’m not particularly good at racing games. Or at least, I lack the motivation to play them enough to become more skilled, usually just dicking around for a bit, completing an easy couple of races and then crashing into something. That’s why my only contributions to our […]

Just to let you know that Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is going for $10 on Steam this weekend. It’s basically Deus Ex with vampires, which should be enough reason for anyone to snap it up. There are multiple ways to build your vampiric “hero”, some really well-developed characters to interact with and it still looks […]

My to-do list got interrupted this weekend by Portal. I’d heard a lot of good things, but also that it’s really short, so waited until it hit $10 on steam (altho that might have been a special offer). The short form is, it’s a hell of a lot of fun. Really novel gameplay concept. What’s […]

So says this guy: If there was an award for silliest, least scary villain in a game, I reckon ‘Razor’ from NFS: Most Wanted would win it. Frankly, he looks like he spends more time plucking his eyebrows and applying anti-ageing cream than hanging out “on the street”. His “gang”, meanwhile, are vaguely reminiscent of […]

While thumbing through the latest (extremely thin) issue of PC Zone magazine, their lukewarm review of the latest unremarkable racer to get a multi-format release made for fairly depressing reading: “In any other year a PC racing-lite enthusiast would be reading this review and being subjected to a list of reasons as to why the […]

So I’ve finally played Half-Life 2. And it’s awesome! The trick is, Valve sat down and and thought up a whole bunch of set-piece scenarios to put you in. So it’s not just running from one room to the next shooting people, and you never feel like you’re doing exactly the same thing twice. The […]

So I flicked through Gamespot’s review of Doom3, and it seems to come down to “yeah it’s a generic shooter that kills its own tension by being so repetitive. But it’s really shiny!!!! 8/10” It’ll be a few years before we look at Doom3 ourselves – but for now here’s my own summary which is […]

Hello all. Recently I completed Price of Persia: The Sands of Time. And it’s a rather fantastic game – breathtaking acrobatics, a misty-mythical Arabian-nights feel, and a good story too. I actually gave a damn about what happened to the Prince and Farah – and it’s all too rare that a game evokes such a […]