AMY, one of the very first releases of 2012, sets a very high standard for others not to follow. “Terrible” is the choice of descriptive here and can be used to describe most of the game, despite one or two clever ideas. This survival horror (more survival, less horror) just feels like a total copy of the Saw games but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After the rip roaring success of Tom Wallis’ review of Alan Wake, he decided to do another spot of guest writing from Newb Review; taking a look at the first bit of DLC for the critically acclaimed Alan Wake. If you bought a new copy of the game, or if you were lucky enough to pick up a second hand [...]
Introducing another new contributor to The Average Gamer, Jon Jones. Jon was born in London and grew up in California. A lover of games and storytelling in general, he considers himself a bit of a “Renaissance Geek” with interests in traditional table-top role-playing and board games. His gamer DNA stretches back the golden age of 8-bit, where he found himself [...]
We’ve asked Tom Wallis from Newbreview to do a spot of writing for us. Tom chose to write about a writer called Alan Wake: a man who narrates his life while trapped in his own manuscript. A manuscript that he can’t remember writing. Writing about a writer stuck in his own writing? Games journalism doesn’t get more post-modern than this. [...]
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