War in the North, should you believe the blurb “is a co-op Action RPG that immerses you and your friends in a brutal new chapter in the War of the Ring”. It’s similar in level design to previous titles where you work through each area bashing trolls and orcs until you reach a set piece. These err towards bashing a [...]
The Middle Ages weren’t a good time to be alive to be honest. Not that I was around back then, but I’ve heard it sucked pretty bad. Unless you were a Knight of the Realm, it was all hacking and slashing through the Middle East on a mission from God to find the Holy Grail or the key to eternal [...]
Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to the 2009 Playstation 3 exclusive Demon’s Souls. It brings with it much of the style and functionality of that earlier title, along with a casual disregard for many modern gaming trends, and a gorgeous fantasy setting, which encourages exploration and experimentation on the part of the player. But in an overcrowded winter gaming [...]
The original Dungeon Siege games were role-playing games, with strategy elements, and point and click functionality. Think Diablo 2, and you get the picture. This new addition (and sequel) to the series, is far more action-oriented, with only minor RPG elements. Dungeon Siege III is once again set in the kingdom of Ehb, some 150 years after the events of [...]
Arrgghhh! Zombies! They’re everywhere! No, seriously, they are. If popular culture were a shopping mall, you would need a large machete and a chainsaw to get past all the zombie games and movies shambling their way around the food court. In this increasingly overpopulated genre, can Dead Island, a brand new title from the makers of Call of Juarez, really [...]
I have been looking forward to playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution for a long time. On a sunny Tuesday I copied the game to my Xbox 360 hard drive and hit go. The opening story is very detailed, and fills in who you are, and sets up the game. So what’s it all about? Well that I can’t go into [...]
More and more frequently, I’ve been hearing that people no longer want to play dice-roll RPGs. Upcoming MMORPG TERA might well be your thing. Late on a Tuesday afternoon last month I was escorted into a giant tree filled with technology to check out TERA from Bluehole Studio. Yes, it’s yet another fantasy MMO with buxom babes and humongous hunks. [...]
After a rather long wait to get into the game, I am pleased to say I was pleasantly surprised. Been playing with a old gaming colleague Azik… he’s well impressed, which is something since all he’s really done is say every game is not EQ1 since we stopped playing back in 2003. The character creation is flexible, but does not [...]
Introducing another of our new contributors, Dan Crawley is 35 years old, and started gaming in 1982, on a beautiful, but stubborn, ZX81. He enjoys playing classic Nintendo platformers, first person shooters and some of the more innovative PSN and WiiWare titles. Dan’s two favourite games from the last ten years have been Ico and Valkyria Chronicles. When I put [...]
What with Fallout: New Vegas coming next month, this seems like a good time to look back at 2008′s Fallout 3. Happy to say that Fallout 3 is a bloody brilliant game. I’m always impressed by the RPGs from Bethesda Softworks and even 2 years after release, this lives up to their high standards. Despite dropping you in the uninhabitable [...]
This is the fifth part in my ongoing series of articles detailing the essentials to consider when writing a journal for a computer-based role-playing game. The previous parts are: RPG Journal Part I – The Basics RPG Journal Part II – The Categories RPG Journal Part III – Information RPG Journal Part IV – Maps Inventory When I pick up [...]
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