Archive for category: Shooters
Jon Jones / 22nd May, 2011 10:09 pm
After playing through and reviewing the single-player campaign, I was surprised to find a pretty robust multi-player component to Homefront. Sure, there aren’t a lot of maps but for a console FPS novice like myself it’s a serviceable enough release to keep me and a few thousand others occupied. The maps are based around levels from the single-player game and [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 10th May, 2011 2:03 pm
On Friday 6th May, original UK release date of Duke Nukem Forever, a crowd of games journalists were summoned to the back room of a bar and plied with drink, mini burgers and boob-shaped cupcakes. On the big screen was a bevy of large-breasted CG “beauties” and off to the left was a sweet 4 vs 4 setup running none [...]
Jon Jones / 6th Apr, 2011 12:29 pm
For the uninitiated, the original Crysis was the kind of game that people used to benchmark their computer system. The recommended specification was so high it was positively stratospheric when it was originally released in 2007. It’s taken four years, but the series has now made the jump to multi-platform status; so when the opportunity came to check out the 360 version of Crysis 2, I jumped at the chance. Has it made a successful transition?
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 5th Apr, 2011 8:44 am
I got to play the campaign mode for upcoming military shooter Operation Flashpoint: Red River a few weeks back. After spending a day on the co-op Fireteam Engagement mode with other human players, moving to single-player is a bloody shock, let me tell you. This is not an easy game. As with Red River’s multiplayer, you cannot run-and-gun it through [...]
Jon Jones / 18th Mar, 2011 9:14 am
This review focuses on the single-player campaign. Also see our Homefront Multiplayer Review. I launched into Homefront with very little preamble and not having known much about the game from the outset. My initial expectation was for something along the lines of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s “Invasion America” sequence, and although the end result is not far off [...]
Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) / 10th Mar, 2011 10:28 pm
Earlier on this week, I got to spend time with Volition’s latest instalment in the Red Faction series – Red Faction: Armageddon. The first Red Faction game was released way back in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. Powered by the GeoMod engine, the main selling point of the game was the ability to destroy almost anything you could see. This [...]
Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) / 3rd Mar, 2011 12:25 pm
The original Dead Space was easily the most atmospheric and genuinely scary game I've played since Dungeon Master's Chaos Strikes Back expansion many, many years ago. It's totally immersive, cleverly written, damn scary and very violent. I had real trouble scraping myself away from my PC.
So after finishing Dead Space on the PC and then Dead Space 2 demo on the Xbox 360 I was itching to see what scares and disgusting horror the full Dead Space 2 game had to offer. Thankfully, I wasn’t to be disappointed.
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 25th Feb, 2011 4:29 pm
I got my grubby mitts on upcoming co-op military shooter Operation Flashpoint: Red River this week. The third in this series of “realistic” military shooters, Red River is based in Tajikistan (yes, it’s a real country) and heavily influenced by the style of modern combat documentaries like the fabulous Generation Kill (mmm… Eric from True Blood :). The Operation Flashpoint [...]
Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) / 9th Aug, 2009 3:01 pm
Another World War II first person shooter, but is it any good?
Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) / 6th Jan, 2008 11:09 pm
Greatest FPS ever made, or a pile of steaming poo? We put Halo 3 under the spotlight to see if it smells a bit or not.
Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) / 21st Dec, 2007 7:30 am
Age rating: 15+ (PEGI) What is it? First person shooter set in the Half-Life universe. Is it fun? Yes. Is it worth the money? PC – £26.28 via steam, Xbox 360 £26.99 (inc. p+p) Not on its own, but as part of the Orange Box. Yes, yes, hell yes. Why? I absolutely love the Half-Life games. I’ve completed everyone so [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 1st Oct, 2006 4:13 pm
Age Rating: PEGI 18+ for swearing and violence. What is it? First-person shooter with a humongous-boobed supervillain. The first in a planned series of episodes, so it’s quite short. Is it fun? Yep. Most definitely. Is it worth the money? US$14.95 via Steam or £14.99 Via Steam, yes. I was charged £9.54 by Barclays. You could do worse with a [...]
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