Archive for category: PS3

/ 27th Feb, 2012 8:01 am

Hands-On with Risen 2: Gorillas, Wenches and Voodoo

Risen 2 is a game about pirates. It’s also a game about soldiers, about making choices, and a li-ttle bit about racism, though not in that socially-conscious educational way. More the other kind. You know. The racist one. Developers Piranha Bytes have focused their efforts on breadth in Risen 2. You play a nameless hero who was dishonourably discharged from [...]

/ 26th Feb, 2012 11:59 pm

Tracking The London Mass Effect 3: Space Editions

Bioware and EA are going to release copies of Mass Effect 3 attached to weather balloons from a London launch site at 11:30am, Monday 27th Feb 2012. Thanks to the Met Office and my aviation training, you can improve your chances of retrieving a copy of the game. Using the some of the Met Office’s aviation weather forcasts alongside the [...]

/ 7th Feb, 2012 3:32 pm

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review (360)

Pick & Mix counters are the Holy Grail of sweetie goodness as far as I’m concerned, challenged only by “All You Can Eat” buffets for the title of most pleasurable food related experience. Envisage the joy that a combination of the two could bring. Scrunch your eyes shut and imagine a wall of confectionery, unhampered by the restrictions placed on you [...]

/ 3rd Feb, 2012 10:48 am

SoulCalibur V Review (PS3)

SoulCalibur V delivers some excellent fights and intense action, offering a level of depth and complexity unseen in previous entries. But there isn’t enough variety within the matches themselves for it to be considered among the top-tier fighters on the market. SoulCalibur V sees the long-running series undergo a serious makeover to the core gameplay. The major changes centre around [...]

/ 30th Jan, 2012 7:00 pm

Syndicate Hands-On Preview – Co-op Mode

The Syndicate demo will be out for Xbox Live Gold users on 31st Jan (tomorrow) and PSN on 1st Feb. EA gave us a hands-on preview with the co-op mode. It’s good. Real good. I imagine it would be a bloody nightmare if you play with online randomers. The Western Europe map that will be available is 4-player co-op and [...]

/ 26th Jan, 2012 3:27 pm

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo Impressions

Excited for the release of Final Fantasy XIII-2? You should be. I know it seems odd after the apparent failure of XIII. Believe me I can understand any hesitations you may have. After playing through the demo three times for your benefit I can safely say FFXIII-2 appears to fix the few issues that XIII had. Combat is faster and [...]

/ 25th Jan, 2012 2:40 am

UFC Undisputed 3 Hands-On Preview

“He’s looking for a Kimura” Get used to this. You’ll be hearing it a lot, at least if the tournament I played is anything to go by. The development team at THQ have worked hard on making the commentary system sound natural. “You’re actually getting live broadcast feeds,” I was told by senior designer Wes Bunn. “The UFC gives us [...]

/ 23rd Jan, 2012 3:53 pm

Final Fantasy XIII – A Post-Mortem

Final Fantasy XIII was undeniably beautiful. The world it created was vast and full of life. My explorations through the great plains of Gran Pulse and the Ice Fields on Cocoon never failed to drop my jaw on more than one occasion yet there was something not quite right about it. Sadly FFXIII had one major problem along with a [...]

/ 16th Jan, 2012 5:53 pm

Strokes In Your Living Room – Grand Slam Tennis 2

I met up with Thomas Singleton, producer for Grand Slam Tennis 2 to get his thoughts on making sports games more accessible, in-game commentary and using the PlayStation Move controller. The game, which is released next month, features all four Grand Slam tournaments, the ability to replay classic matches like Borg vs. McEnroe and a 10-year career mode. I asked [...]

/ 13th Jan, 2012 2:53 pm

Rayman Origins Review (360)

Rayman Origins. I can hear the collective sighs of the latest generation of gamers across the country whose only memories of Rayman are the Raving Rabbids games and would rather shoot themselves than play another. I say to them NAY, your opinions are wrong (if a little justified). Why do you play games? If you said for fun then you [...]

/ 10th Jan, 2012 1:23 pm

Naughty Dog’s Justin Richmond Regrets The Killing Of [REDACTED] In Uncharted 2

Before the launch of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception I interviewed Justin Richmond, game director at Naughty Dog Studios where he talked about his reaction to seeing the video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 and the items the studio has hidden in the game. SPOILER WARNING: Even though Uncharted 2: Among Thieves came out in 2009, we appreciate that some [...]

/ 6th Jan, 2012 2:26 pm

Saints Row: The Third Review (PS3)

Imagine a world where you can do what you want, when you want and get adored just for existing. As I covered in my hands-on preview at Gamescom 2011, Saints Row: The Third lets you live that fictional life while having fun in the most outrageous way possible. Amazingly Insane Your home for the majority of the game is the [...]

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