Uncharted: Golden Abyss feels disjointed. I know nothing about how it was developed but playing through, it feels like there were two distinct design styles at work. The first encapsulates everything I detest about console gaming. The second, everything I love. A weird experience but on the whole, I enjoyed it. Mostly. I started out hating the game. Throughout the [...]
The thing that strikes you most about WipEout 2048 is how beautiful it looks and sounds. There are so many intricate details on the ships and scenery and I love the way ships expel all sorts of gases and fumes as they race. The video billboards plastered onto the sides of buildings bring the world of anti-gravity racing to life [...]
“Oh God” I thought as I read the first instruction screen “It’s Angry Squids”. The cephalopods stared back at me from the screen, their cute eyes begging to be loved from beneath their rather bizarre hats. Hats! I grasped onto this new found glimmer of hope with grim determination. Surely, any game that features interchangeable hats which bestow great power upon [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you own any kind of iOS device, you’re probably fully aware that Quarrel is the ideal word game. I hope so, at least, since if you don’t own Quarrel on your phone already you’ve ostensibly bought a paperweight. Quarrel’s so good that it completely justifies that massive monetary commitment. It’s a cheap word game that is good enough to [...]
Oh Chillingo, why must you offer me exactly the kind of game I love and then cruelly take it away by annoying the crap out of me with adverts and underhand ways of trying to make me spend money? Don’t you realise I’m a stubborn cuss who objects to developers making game progression so mind numbingly tedious in the deluded [...]
“Exuberant, colourful and very chatty release would like to meet casual gamers for cartoon-styled violence and good times.” Brawl Busters is the new over the shoulder deathmatch / co-op release from Rock Hippo. Like Team Fortress 2 it’s released as Free-2-Play and offers in-game currency for those who are time starved but still want weapons and plenty of ‘em. Whilst [...]
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 [...]
I don’t usually start a review with a major gripe but as it is to do with the title of the game, I feel it is needed. Kirby’s Adventure Wii is an atrocious name. It’s lame, boring, and there is nothing catchy about it at all. It isn’t even the original title of the game, so money has actually been [...]
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 [...]
Generally, Christmas is a time of excess. Mince pies are consumed by the dozen and the mere mention of fitness is banished to the naughty step with the rest of the never-fulfilled New Year’s resolutions. Where the only exercise you’ll see is two people trying to hold on to just a bit more of a cracker, so they can be [...]
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