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Bioshock Infinite: a rollicking good ride

I finished Bioshock Infinite last week and boy, what a ride it was. It’s not often there’s a […]

Lewis Packwood 18 April 2013 Reviews

Bioshock 2 – Not waving but drowning

Bioshock 2 (Xbox 360) Review – I was not much of a fan of the original Bioshock.  I […]

___ 7 April 2013 Reviews

The triumphant return of Ms Lara Croft

Tomb Raider (PS3)  Review – Some of my favourite gaming memories were formed playing the original Tomb Raider. […]

___ 5 April 2013 Reviews

KAYLA MITCHELL IS DEAD.

Kayla Mitchell died late on Tuesday night. She’d just managed to fight her way out of the Nursery […]

Lewis Packwood 4 April 2013 Reviews

Darksiders II – Don’t be afraid of Death

Darksiders 2 (Wii U) Review – Darksiders II is the best video game of the generation.  It isn’t the […]

___ 1 April 2013 Reviews

Need for Speed Most Wanted – Analog Boy in a Digital World

Need for Speed Most Wanted (Vita) Review – The RX Bandits summed it up really in the title […]

___ 30 March 2013 Reviews

Lost Planet 2: Well That Was A Bit Rubbish

I’m a big fan of the original Lost Planet, and I picked up Lost Planet 2 a few […]

Lewis Packwood 12 March 2013 Reviews

Big business rules in Syndicate. And business is good.

SYNDICATE (PS3) REVIEW – It is pure madness that Syndicate exists, really.  Like XCOM last year, Syndicate is […]

___ 9 March 2013 Reviews

Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing – Monkey Balls not required

Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing (Review)  I’m not sure if you’ve heard but kart racing is really fun.  But […]

___ 6 March 2013 Reviews

Like a deer in headlights (why you should play Hitman: Blood Money)

It had all gone wrong.  After making my way through the cruise ship incognito, taking out my targets […]

___ 19 February 2013 Reviews

El Shaddai: Mad as a Bag of Frogs

I listed El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron at number two in the ‘games I would have played […]

Lewis Packwood 16 February 2013 Reviews

Limbo is really reminiscent of a bad dream

Limbo will likely forever haunt some part of my being.  It may not come to the forefront and […]

___ 15 February 2013 Reviews

Link’s Awakening Cruelly Curtailed

I underwent a somewhat traumatic experience last weekend: while I was on holiday in France, my Nintendo 3DS […]

Lewis Packwood 9 February 2013 Reviews

Constant Runner – ten video game tracks to have on your exercise playlist

If you’re like me, video games are one of many things that I spend my free time doing. […]

___ 25 January 2013 Best-of Lists, Pulp

Lucius Merriweather’s Most Agreeable Games of 2012

So, seeing as we’re already in the second week of 2013, I thought it’s about bloody time I […]

Lewis Packwood 7 January 2013 Best-of Lists

Sir Gaulian’s most agreeable games of 2012

Call if Game of the Year, call it best games, call it whatever you like – at the […]

___ 4 January 2013 Best-of Lists

Hanging out with the dead: my meta holiday on Dead Island

I have been on holidays for the last week and for a large part of that I have […]

___ 8 October 2012 Reviews

The intensity of Crysis 2

Crysis 2 is perhaps the most intense action-based first person shooter I’ve played in a long, long time. […]

___ 3 October 2012 Reviews

Genji: A Hidden Gem from the Dying Days of the PS2

It’s very rare that I’ll buy a game on the strength of the box art alone. Usually a […]

Lewis Packwood 28 September 2012 Reviews

Far Cry 2 is beautiful but dumb

I finished Far Cry 2 (buy on Amazon) the other day, and I have to say I was […]

Lewis Packwood 26 September 2012 Reviews

The Brilliance of Bayonetta

I finally finished Bayonetta last week, just days before the announcement that the sequel is not only in […]

Lewis Packwood 24 September 2012 Reviews

Transformers: War for Cyberton – Why all the dark energon?

Transformers: War for Cybertron was a decent, if not derivative shooter that lived and died by its licence. […]

___ 23 June 2012 Opinions, Reviews

Duke Nukem Forever: Time to Kill?

I finished Duke Nukem Forever, but there isn’t a lot I can say about it that hasn’t already […]

___ 8 April 2012 Reviews

Ninja Blade: FromSoftware’s flawed gem

Sometimes silliness is okay.  If the relatively universal praise for Asura’s Wrath and its over the top action and anime […]

___ 7 April 2012 Reviews

Race Driver: GRID – The trouble with allegiance

I have a general fondness for the guys over at Codemasters.  What they do, they do well, particularly […]

___ 6 April 2012 Reviews

The Medal of Honor is earned by only the best soldiers. Luckily this soldier is great.

Another one bites the dust.  Game off the mantelpiece that is.  I had to resist the temptation to […]

___ 26 March 2012 Reviews

Broken Sword: Paragon of Point and Click

This isn’t the first time I’ve played Broken Sword, but it’s the first time I’ve finished it. I […]

Lewis Packwood 26 March 2012 Reviews

Remembering Mass Effect 2: republishing an old love letter

Back at the start of 2011 I wrote what can only be described as a love letter to […]

___ 12 March 2012 Opinions, Reviews

Ghost Recon: The Best Game On The 3DS

Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is easily my favourite game on the 3DS so far, and without doubt the […]

Lewis Packwood 5 March 2012 Reviews

Star Fox: Fun While It Lasts

Back in January I got all excited at the thought of playing a version of Star Fox 64 […]

Lewis Packwood 21 February 2012 Reviews

This Is Just A Modern War Song

Let me take you back to the dim and distant past of January 2010. I’m in deepest darkest […]

Lewis Packwood 7 February 2012 Reviews

Excuse my lateness…

Huge apologies, but this week’s post has been slightly delayed – the perils of holding down a full-time […]

Lewis Packwood 24 January 2012 Reviews

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