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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
What an unfortunate name. I’m sure the lovely ladies behind 2 Girls 1 Game know exactly what they were doing when they picked their name but I’m afraid all it does is make think of shit. Unfortunate branding aside, keen observers will have noticed that we don’t really play horror games here at The Average Gamer. I don’t see the [...]
As a recently-self-employed gamer, the price of new games is even more a concern to me than it used to be (if such a thing is possible). Yes, I’ve heard plenty of people argue that pounds-per-hour, games are much better value than films/clubbing/sailing/blah, blah, blah. These people invariably leave out the part where the majority games aren’t very good and [...]
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