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On thursday night Heavy Rain kicked into top gear with such aggression I was instantly hooked and by the end of the night found it hard to put the game down. This was the style of game I remembered, and I was loving it. True to form, and this is not the reason I’m loving it, Quantic Dream proved that they were a French development team with their highly detailed female protagonist. If you can’t read between the lines never mind, you’ll realise what I’m talking about within the first five minutes of controlling Madison Paige.

So kicking into high gear, Ethan Mars who seems to be the main character discovers that to save his son, he has to complete a series of challenges laid down by the Origami Killer. This is where the game gets really gritty and dark – to the point where you’re left contemplating the original Saw film, and wondering if the Saw game could have ever had the emotional impact of the trials that Heavy Rain forces Ethan to go through.  Read the rest of this entry »

I had a second session on Heavy Rain last night, and I finally got into the storyline as such – not that my first session didn’t, it’s just that that was more of a setting the scene kind of thing. The worrying thing is I’m still not totally hooked on the game. This may be due to my high expectations and my memories of playing Fahrenheit, where you essentially get put right into the action, and from memory there wasn’t a heck of a lot of boring bits. This is in stark opposites to how Heavy Rain is going, where a lot of it seems to mirror my daily life; feeding the kids, home work, playing with the kids etc… I’m sure this is supposed to instill a certain amount of emotional attachment, but when my child goes missing in the game, it came as a relief. It meant that I might be able to get onto some of the grittier parts of the game.  Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently Time Magazine described Modern Warfare 2 as having “something intelligent to say about contemporary military conflicts.” We’re not sure if anyone at Time magazine actually played the game, but Infinity Ward seem to be taking it as Gospel that they have an ”intelligent’ game on their hands, and don’t want to sully it with the inclusion of Nazi Zombies.

And good on them too. Nazi zombies would just be silly in a Modern Warfare game.   Read the rest of this entry »

Las Vegas survived Crime Scene Investigation and Wayne Newton, but it will never look the same after it gets the Fallout treatment.

In the alternate-history video game Fallout: New Vegas, coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PCs this fall (no price and not yet rated), the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding area in 2280 bear the effects of a nuclear holocaust more than 200 years earlier during a great war between the United States and China.

The mystery is, who are you in this nuclear wasteland?

At the outset of the game, your character is shot and left in a shallow grave in the desert, lifted of the package you were entrusted with delivering. A robot digs you out and takes you to a local caregiver, Doc Mitchell, who nurses you back to health.   Read the rest of this entry »

So what do you get for 400 Microsoft Points when it comes to downloading new tracks for Forza 3? With the Nürburgring Grand Prix Circuit, you get two; the full circuit and the short circuit. For $6.60 it’s not too bad.

Of course to get any real use out of it, you’ll have to make sure all your mates download it as well so you can all go online and test your skills. And a test it will be, because the Nürburgring Grand Prix Circuit is one very technical track. Lots of hard corners with a few short straights thrown in, giving the driver who can out break everyone else the victory, and the driver who leaves breaking a fraction too late, disaster.   Read the rest of this entry »

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has the potential to be a great multiplayer game. And, at times it is. Sadly, a combination of human nature (the hacks and abuses of the community) and ineptitude (Infinity Ward’s arrogance in not having a multiplayer beta) is ruining the game.

Here is how it could be fixed…   Read the rest of this entry »

So I was hanging out with some friends playing Modern Warfare 2 last night, when I noticed otenic’s side arm was on his back. This seemed like an odd location to have a side arm, by definition of it’s very name, it should be holstered on your side, in easy reach of you hand, right? But then I guess with a side arm THAT big, you might not be able to find a holster big enough. It looks like Infinity Ward have made a side arm that can take out tanks…

UPDATE:


Proportionally it does fit with a picture of a .44 Magnum found on wikipedia, but it still looks awfully big on otenics back. Surely having it holstered would be more realistic and not look so out of place though?

Now that we’ve looked forward to the year ahead, it’s time to look back and remember the best gaming moments of the last ten years. And yes, we do know that we’re about to open a can of worms, because ten games over ten years means that some one will get annoyed that we missed out the best game ever, or included the worst game ever. Sigh.  Read the rest of this entry »

2010 is looking to be a bit of a cracker year as far as gaming goes, so rather than do our usual what’s hot this month, we figured we’d do a what’s going to make this year so damn awesome list. But a couple of things to think about before we let you start reading. First, and this should be obvious to any gamer by now, release dates are never set in stone. Second, this is not an exclusive list, there are other games out there that may be worthy of being on this list, it’s just that we didn’t think of them when we were typing this list. Sorry.  Read the rest of this entry »