Perhaps it’s fitting that Catherine frames itself as an episode in part of a fictional TV show. It feels so much like an actual series that has gone on far too long and has introduced tangential elements to keep people interested. The show would have started by focusing almost entirely on the main plot, but keeps adding layers of importance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Back in 2010, The Average Gamer reviewed the Microsoft-published hit, Alan Wake. Unfortunately, Tom Wallis did not see it as a hit. Personally, I thought the game was excellent, much to the contrary of the review. Although you are able to skip through the cut-scenes, the episodic nature of the story telling does seem a little pointless. At first. By [...]
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 [...]
Happy week-before-Christmas, all you lovely readers. We’ve been working with Microsoft recently, talking about the new dashboard content and we’re now part of the Xbox Live Ambassadors program, wooo! What does that mean? Basically, we still get to talk about whatever we want, however we want to but they’ll send us some nice content and sometimes link to us from [...]
Binary Domain is one of the many games coming out early next year. I saw it way back at E3 and finally got to play it recently. It’s an odd one. One the surface, it’s just another shooty bang game with corridors and giant robots but the team at Yakuza Studio are innovating on a rarely-seen dynamic; NPC relationships. I [...]
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