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Category Archives: Game Reviews
Review – Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
You are Monkey, a captive aboard a huge flying ship being taken to the Pyramid where you will be turned into a slave. In an explosive opening level, the ship crash lands in post-apocalyptic New York, which has been devoid of humans for the past 150 years and as such, is a little overgrown. After being knocked unconscious from the impact, you wake up to find yourself enslaved anyway, albeit by the slightly friendlier Trip, who just wants to get home. And the journey begins…
Halo Reach or Halo Wretch?
How time flies! One day you’re sitting with no new games to play, the next you’re playing Halo Reach on Xbox 360, and before you know it, it’s 3 weeks after you’ve finished it and you somehow still haven’t written any whatsoever about it on your blog. Not sure if that says anything about what I thought about the game, but to be honest, it most likely just says a lot about how lazy I really can be. I mean, avoiding going to a gym or going for a run when I’m starting to get a Santa belly (good timing, mind) is bad enough, but failing to type a few simple paragraphs about a video game I sat on my arse and played for a week is just the pinnacle of fat, lazy, slobbishness!
Well, at least I finally got around to it now…
Review – Mafia II
Ever wanted to play a part in another story about the Mafia in the 1940-50s, watching plenty of well animated cutscenes and shooting lots of people? Well if so, you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what you get with Mafia II. It was announced by 2K Games around August, 2007, but now – 3 years later – it was finally released for all the mobster fans out there to get their hands on and gawp at. It certainly looked set to bowl us all over with a realistic, beautiful, story driven, free-roaming gangster blast from the past. Has it attempted and pulled off everything we may have expected from it? Or did it flop beyond all reason and leave those of us waiting years for it utterly disappointed?
Review – Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light
Lara Croft’s newest adventure is unlike anything you’ve seen her in before, and I’m happy to say it’s one of her most fun to play. Up until this point, all of the Tomb Raider games have been traditional 3D platformers, but The Guardian of Light brings the aging series into new and welcoming territory – it’s an isometric, top-down puzzle platformer designed to be played alone or with a friend – right now co-op only works if you’re sitting in the same room, but even without online features we all take for granted these days, I can’t recommend it enough.
Review – Alan Wake: The Signal
If you were one of the super smart people like us who bought Alan Wake brand new, you should have found a voucher code thingy inside the box for your game, entitling you to a free download of the first episode of downloadable content for the game when it became available. A few long months later, the aforementioned episode ‘The Signal’ was finally released just the other day, and so I delved right in.
Review – Alien Swarm: Two can play that game!
With the free release of Valve’s Alien Swarm over a week ago, and after many hours spent playing online, BcR bring you a joint discussion about our time with the game and a review of just what makes this game so great. Apart from the fact that it’s free, of course!
Review – Limbo: If at first you don’t succeed, die, die again…
What if you woke up in a strange place with no friends, no colour, a whole lot of nasty stuff that might (definitely) try and kill you in vicious ways, and the ability to only move left or right on a 2D plane? Well, according to the imaginations of the folks at games company Playdead, you’d most likely be in Limbo trying to save your sister, though you won’t have known this unless you actually read the description for the game.
Review – Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
The new Prince of Persia game treads very familiar ground. As a fan of the original trilogy, I went into this new instalment with certain expectations, and have generally come away pretty satisfied. 2008’s Prince of Persia game was disappointingly easy (it was literally impossible to die) whereas The Forgotten Sands goes back to its roots: brilliant environmental puzzles with the occasional simple, repetitive, yet fun combat.
Transformers WFC: More than meets the eye?
After finally completing Transformers: War for Cybertron on my 360, I’ve managed to consolidate my thoughts and put down on (virtual) paper exactly how I feel about it. In short, I’m reviewing it. Was it worth paying full price at Game for it? Does it live up to the main concept behind the whole story of the Transformers where others have failed? And more importantly, does Optimus Prime ever yell “Autobots! Transform and rrrrroll out!”?
To Bear, or not to Bear…
Imagine an island full of cute and fuzzy teddy bears, all with adorable, cuddly sounding names like ‘chubby’, ‘stardust’, or ‘niggles’. Now imagine being able to enter that world in the form of a bad-ass teddy bear with a lust for vengeance, as you take out your anger and frustrations at being an outcasted troublemaker on your fluffy, fellow island dwellers, with an array of lethal (and mostly sharp) weapons. Does that sound good? I certainly thought so!