A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Review
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Hotline Miami (PS Vita, PS3) – Hotline Miami is like a drug-enduced high that will take you on a trip through the violence, white suits and craziness of a brutal 1980’s Miami that will leave your eyes blood-shot, your sense heightened and your mind warped and twisted. Bloody, bright and brutal, Hotline Miami is a loving homage to 80’s…
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NBA 2K13 has single-handedly defined Nintendo’s newest console’s place in my life. Sitting there playing through a basketball season with the Celtics on the gamepad made me realise just how awesome of a proposition the Wii U is for a subset of people. Being someone who spends a majority of my game time buried deep…
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Max Payne (Xbox) review – In an age where it is all about the cover and simply rushing head on to take the battle directly to the enemy is out of fashion, it blows my mind that Max Payne holds up so well. Both from a narrative standpoint and gameplay this decade-old game feels…
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Grand Theft Auto – The Ballad of Gay Tony – I never much liked Grand Theft Auto IV. I bought it at launch, the ‘special’ edition I might add, played it for a few hours, thought it was a bit average and then put it on the shelf. A year later I forced myself through it…
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Need For Speed – The Run (PS3) – I think we as consumers of video games, in general, are getting greedy. We want more for less. We want perfection. And worst of all we want innovation with no concessions made in what we known and love. In short being a developer would suck because there is…
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Bioshock 2 (Xbox 360) Review – I was not much of a fan of the original Bioshock. I thought that the story was interesting enough but I couldn’t help but shake the feeling that I wasn’t actually enjoying playing the game. Add to that that I was never invested in the plight of the characters…
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Tomb Raider (PS3) Review – Some of my favourite gaming memories were formed playing the original Tomb Raider. Everything about it resonated with me to a point where I could overlook its flaws and just focus in on what made it so special. It is fitting then that the origin story of Lara Croft in…
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Darksiders 2 (Wii U) Review – Darksiders II is the best video game of the generation. It isn’t the best experience, the best story, the best graphics or the most revolutionary gameplay of the generation. But the now defunct (sadly) developer Vigil managed to craft an unbelievably well-rounded game that is far better than it ought…
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Need for Speed Most Wanted (Vita) Review – The RX Bandits summed it up really in the title of their song ‘Analog Boy’. I like single-player video game experiences. I don’t think co-op makes everything better. And I haven’t held an Xbox Live Gold Account for a number of years. Sometimes I feel like I…
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I have been on holidays for the last week and for a large part of that I have been sitting indoors enjoying staring at a much larger screen than the one I have at my desk at work, while the season changes rapidly from a cold Canberra winter to a smashing warm Australian spring. And…
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I finished Duke Nukem Forever, but there isn’t a lot I can say about it that hasn’t already been said. There were a lot of missteps, some misguided design decisions, and a general unpolished feel to the whole experience. This has all been said ad-nauseum across the internet, so I’m not going to bother. What…
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Sometimes silliness is okay. If the relatively universal praise for Asura’s Wrath and its over the top action and anime influenced storyline is anything to go by, people are at the point where a bit of fun is really okay. And if anyone knows how to do silly it’s the japanese. Unfortunately they also know how to…
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I have a general fondness for the guys over at Codemasters. What they do, they do well, particularly in the racing space. The Dirt series and the Colin McRae series before that are some of my favourite racing games of the past 10 years, and are games that I will happily pour countless hours into to make sure I…
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