Reviews
Walking the line between kiddie cheesiness and tense gritty shooter Transformers: Fall of Cybertron maintains the action between the Autobots and Decepticons without turning into Gears Of War in disguise
Bringing the world of Little Big Planet to a smaller environment, Little Little Big Planet if you will, Sony has brought the popular platformer and creation tool to the PlayStation Vita. Now lovers of LBP can play through an all new adventure and create levels using touch (both front and back) features.
I met a girl yesterday who had a Blackberry. I picked it and quipped “wow, is this really yours?” she replied “yup, I had an iPhone but gave it away. I just wanted a phone to be a phone.” It was then I realised that the Nokia Lumia 710, made a whole lot of sense.
Can a new intellectual property break into the Brotastic world of third person modern warfare shooters dominated by Gears Of War amongst others? Spec Ops: The Line sets a premise that storyline in a shooter can make the difference, sorry guys, it doesn’t.
Actually the title of interest here is Tom Clancy’s: Ghost Recon Future Soldier, a title in its self heralds the complexity of game-play to come. In the video games of today we are no longer simply munching the larger yellow dot to take down enemy ghosts. Instead we need to learn a more complex series of command and control to survive for any significant period in each levels modern day virtual maze.
Yes it is four wheel racing, but in the case of Mad Riders we are talking about quad bike racing in crazy jungle locations at speeds that will make your helmeted head to spin. Mad Riders forces players to either rely on exceptional reaction speeds or rote learning of tracks in order to progress.
Max is back, this time with the power of Rockstar Game’s impressive development team behind him, but he is still a failure. Max Payne 3 chronicles the further slide of the character that brought the video game world ‘bullet time’ and crime noir grit, and it packs a punch.
Powerline networking has reached the point where it just works. Mostly. The Billion BiPAC P108 achieves that.
Still feel like being a virtual badass? Even after you had a feast of recent games such as infamous 2 and Batman: Arkham City, well perhaps it is time to wheel out Prototype 2
Steam-punk sea battles with blimps, swashbuckling heroes, Tesla coils, teleportation and other Jules Verne inspired imagery and adventure.
