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It’s time for some midweek football action, with our review of Striker.

As part of the site’s 15-year anniversary, I’m doing a few articles looking back at games I covered for FFG in the early days. They’re not the usual reviews or discussion pieces but hopefully you might find them interesting. The first piece, with a bit more explanation, can be found here, and all of the articles in the series can be found by clicking here.

This week, we’re looking at Blade Runner, and I should warn you that there are some mild spoilers for the early stages of the game (as well as for my never-to-be-published autobiography) ahead.

When I played…Blade Runner continued »

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Just popping in with a quick review, of the 90s kart racer SuperKarts.

More soon, I hope.

This is the second piece of a series of articles I’m doing about some of the games I covered for FFG in our earliest days. It’s a way of looking back at those games, at the site, and at my own gaming history, as part of the site’s 15-year anniversary. The first piece, and a bit more preamble, is here.

Today we’re looking at a variety of titles, under the vague (and slightly misleading) heading of ‘multiplayer games’.

When I played…multiplayer games continued »

Somehow we’ve been going 15 years, and without wanting veer too much into the area of excessive self-congratulation, we figured it’d be nice to mark the occasion somehow.

As regular readers will know, we’re not the most frequently updated of sites, and so any time spent looking back at, and/or rehashing, old content is time we could be spending on something new. We’d like any anniversary content to add to what’s on the site already.

To that end, I thought it might be worth trying something a little bit different, with a series of articles that do look back at some of the games covered in the early days, but without following the traditional review format.

When we first started, our mantra was to not look back at old games with dewy-eyed nostalgia, but these pieces will pretty much be doing exactly that. To varying extents, they’ll also tend to be less about the games and a bit more about the person writing about them (i.e. me).

Viewing games through personal and life experiences is not necessarily everyone’s preferred approach, but it is a valid one and can be interesting, I think. If you like series like Gaming Made Me on Rock Paper Shotgun and Digitiser 2000’s Games of My Years, you’ll have an idea of the kind of thing we’re aiming for.

It’s possible this series – which I’ve chosen to call “When I played…” – might not be to everyone’s tastes, but let’s see how it goes. If it doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, we’ll have plenty of new reviews of old games to come, too.

Anyway, here’s part 1 of 5, about Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger.

When I played…Wing Commander III continued »

Hello there!

Another review for you today, and what better way to complete a hat-trick of January reviews (groan) than with a football game?

Some time ago I had a look at a mid-00s version of Football Manager. But what ever became of Championship Manager? Here’s a look at the 2006 edition.

As Stoo mentioned last time, it’s out 15 year anniversary, and we do have some special things planned (as well as some of the usual old rubbish). More on that soon.

Hello everyone, today we have a rare review from myself. A little while back I wrote about lesser-known first-person shooters of the 90s; so here’s an obscure title from the following decade: Warhammer 40000: Fire Warrior.

Also if you’ve not read it already: last week Rik and I discussed the 2006 adventure game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

I’ve got a busy year ahead so not sure what my review output will look like. However, it is our 15th anniversary this year and I intend to have at least a couple of items to contribute to mark the occasion (a cause for much celebration in the world of gaming websites, I’m sure).

Hello all. Several years ago I wrote about the adventure game The Longest Journey. Today, in the latest of our series of discussion reviews, we look at the sequel, Dreamfall. The mid 2000s were a quiet period in the history of adventures, and many thought the traditional point and click-based approach was dead, so this is an interesting example of how some developers tried to vary the format.

Hello there.

So 2015 is over, and it’s time to once again take a look back at the year on FFG.

This time last year, my stated intentions were to try and fulfil some old and long standing requests and also to add something of note to the strategy section. We managed to do okay on the requests front, finally adding a write up of Doom (albeit one from my own slightly warped perspective as someone who didn’t care much for it at the time) and a discussion review of Another World. I also took a look at Tron 2.0 although it must be stated at this point that this was less of a request and more “something The J Man mentioned in passing more than 5 years ago.”

On the strategy front, I was less successful, although I promise I did try. Perhaps I’ll give it another go next year. Or maybe just leave this kind of thing to the experts in future.

We covered a few FPS titles this year, and in addition to the titles mentioned above, we also had a guest review of Serious Sam 2 and a discussion of the LucasArts shooter Outlaws. I’m tempted to return to the Wild West genre at some point next year. Reviews in the discussion format will also continue: we hope to have one for you later this month.

Elsewhere, Stoo returned to the origins of the Duke Nukem series, while I continued to fill the sports and racing sections with titles of variable quality. Future hover racers seemed to be a theme at one point: at least we managed to cover Wipeout after I finally made my peace with the shoddy PC version, and I also enjoyed revisiting some old 90s techno into the bargain. There was also, uh, an admission that I sort of supported Manchester United at one point.

Who knows what next year will bring. More of the same, in all likelihood. Although it is our 15 year anniversary. Perhaps it’s time for that Klingon Honor Guard review.

Hi there.

Hope you all had a good Christmas. Now, as we all know, Disney have recently brought us a new and much-awaited entry to a beloved sci-fi franchise. Unfortunately, I’m not sure any games based on Star Wars were ever released, so here’s a review of Tron 2.0.