Archive for category: Xbox 360

/ 6th Mar, 2012 1:01 pm

XCOM: Enemy Unknown – First Look

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a real-time strategy game which follows on from the events of the 1994 classic UFO: Enemy Unknown. In the XCOM universe, the earth is under attack from an unknown extraterrestrial force with massively superior numbers and technology. Commanding an elite force of soldiers, it’s up to you to defend the earth from destruction. Last week I [...]

/ 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 [...]

/ 17th Feb, 2012 1:43 pm

2012 Gaming Catch Up – Bioshock 2

My gaming mission statement for this year is to finish my Xbox collection, whilst still struggling to put Fifa 12 down in between (apologies again). Next up – Bioshock 2. The original Bioshock is a great game. Although the mechanics and gameplay is similar to many first person shooters, Bioshock was always more than that. The setting of Rapture, an [...]

/ 15th Feb, 2012 12:01 pm

Adidas miCoach – First Look

Adidas miCoach is a Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move enabled fitness game. Yes, it’s another fitness game, so why should you care? Well, it’s being pitched as a game to complement the sports you enjoy. Not replace, complement. It’s an important distinction. For example, if you are a runner you go out running as normal and log the results [...]

/ 14th Feb, 2012 5:57 pm

Mass Effect 3 with Kinect – Tested

The Mass Effect 3 demo is available on Xbox Live Arcade from today. Time to trial saving the universe. Those of you who have a Battlefield 3 online pass can try out the multiplayer mode from today. Everyone else has the single-player campaign today and the multiplayer from Friday. I played an early version of co-op multiplayer last year and [...]

/ 8th Feb, 2012 4:57 pm

A Journey Through Mistwalker

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the world famous ‘father’ of Final Fantasy, could well be considered the Miyamoto of JRPG games. Since the unfortunate box-office bomb that was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (which Sakaguchi directed), Sakaguchi left his presidential position at Square (which ultimately became Square Enix), and founded his own company, Mistwalker, in 2004. Since that time, Mistwalker have developed a [...]

/ 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 [...]

/ 6th Feb, 2012 4:48 pm

Catherine Review (360)

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 [...]

/ 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 [...]

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