One of the biggest types of games during the early 90’s was the shoot’em up. I’m sure most of you have played or heard of R-Type, and Q-Games’ latest PixelJunk SideScroller is in that very same play style… HARD! The first thing that strikes you is the beautiful and stylish old school graphics. The screen, curved like an old cathode [...]
It doesn’t matter how cute everything is. It doesn’t matter how endearing guiding a flying whale away from a shadowy monster is. It doesn’t matter how high my heart is lifted with every rendition of “I can see my house from heeere”. Whale Trail takes every molecule of joy that has been distilled and injected into its every facet and [...]
Take a motorbike, put a little digital man on him, design some devious videogame levels to try to get him through and what do you get? That’s right! Kickstart on the Commodore 64! Oh, you thought I was going to say something else? *ahem* That’s right! Another Trials clone! I don’t care though. I don’t care about clones, or rehashes [...]
Few titles capture the idea of the badass as well as this summer’s action blockbuster, Renegade Ops, available on the XBLA, PSN and Windows platforms. Developed by Avalanche Studios (the same folks that brought us serial ‘blow-up-everything-a-thon’ Just Cause) and published by Sega, this top down, vehicle-based shooter has the potential to be more enjoyable than watching Hans Gruber fall [...]
Flight Control HD is a port of the popular iPhone game, which has been optimized for the Playstation Move controller on PS3. The aim of the game is simple – to guide a never ending series of aircraft to their respective landing strips. This is accomplished by drawing flight paths for them on the top down view. One crash and, [...]
Originally published as a Multiplayer Game Review on Game People Medieval Games Wii crosses board games with party gaming in a Middle Ages setting. Sadly though, for multiplayer gamers it fails pretty miserably. I’ve seen multiplayer games that are impossible to pick up and play, games that require only the briefest of tutorials and games that blossom from seeming simplicity [...]
Weefz asked me the other day if I knew anything about a game called Alien Breed and would I like to review the latest game in the series - Alien Breed 2: Assault on the PC. To which I replied "yeah, I know a little about it, I'll play it ;-)" Well, I played the first Alien Breed game on my Amiga 500 when it was first released back in 1991. I followed the development diary of Alien Breed 2 in Amiga Format every month. Unfortunately when the game was finally released I was a little put off by how insanely difficult it was to play. But, at least it was an interesting development diary though.
My first impressions of PlayStation Move are pretty similar to the first time I played the Wii, to be honest. It’s fun, there’s a good variety of stuff to do and it’s bloody knackering if you play marathon sessions. You run into the limitations pretty quickly but good game design means that it doesn’t really matter. Well, our FIRST first [...]
Age rating: 3+ (PEGI) What is it? An asteroids clone (high-def update of the Amiga classic Super Stardust) Is it fun? Yes. Is it worth the money? £4.99 (from the UK Playstation Store) Yes. Why? Ok, so I was amazed to find something I actually wanted to buy from the UK Playstation Store a few days ago. That something was [...]
I really enjoyed this game, even though it wasn’t long enough for me to bother with a full review. Seriously, in the time it would take me to write and format one, you could almost finish the game. Assault Heroes a fun little single/co-op player top-down shooter. You have a couple of vehicles and nice assortment of weapons: a flamethrower [...]
The Place: Bloomsbury Bowling Alley, London. The Gang: Tikipod, me and friends. The Machine: A lonely Galaxian arcade machine looking for some action. “Lets go bowling, as I know this interesting alley in Bloomsbury” says Tikipod. “Ok, sounds good” I replied. A few days later (Sunday) I go along expecting some top quality bowling entertainment and what did I get? [...]
What is it? Multi-directional shoot-em-up (a 1990 arcade classic!). Is it fun? Yes. Is it worth the money? Yes – Only 500 Microsoft points or £3.40. Why? In two words – “Total carnage!” The entire game involves running around killing everything that moves and collecting money and “fabulous” prizes. Your killing power can be enhanced, albeit temporarily, by collecting the [...]
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