Those of you who have played City Life will be fully aware of the utter anarchy involved in trying to organise your city. Simply put, Monty Cristo decided that instead of you having to deal with “under the cover” SimCity resources such as “Does everyone have plumbing?” and “You do realise an entire quarter of ...
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From beginning to end, Flower shows effortless mastery of what might be described as a new medium. This isn’t a game in the traditional sense. The developers themselves see it as an interactive poem. It might sound like marketing nonsense but I can fully understand what they mean. It tells a loose story that is ...
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Perhaps the fundamental flaw of the FEAR franchise is that it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. A mix of futuristic shooter and horror game, FEAR walks a very thin line between both of them, and in doing so fails to supply either two competently. FEAR 2 sadly is no better, as ...
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My men are spread across the continents of the world. In India I have secured a small province and am beginning to work my way into the heart of the country. An alliance with the Maratha Confederacy has given me the chance to expand without problems, but that alliance might break soon depending on how ...
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When Relic announced that Dawn of War 2 would run on the same engine as their highly successful Company of Heroes heads were turned at the possibility of lovely Warhammer 40,000 carnage and goodness rendered in the impressive Essence Engine. With this news comes a few obviously expected similarities; the skirmish game modes are the ...
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In hindsight, choosing Wild Mage might not have been the brightest of ideas. I’ve had all sorts of situations thrown at me because of it; casting pretty sparkles, summoning twenty odd squirrels. Things sort of fizzle, and my wild surge can be particularly dangerous in a dungeon where there are five really big orcs around ...
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I didn’t buy Call of Duty World At War, and do you know why? Because I’d already played Call of Duty 4… It was 3am in the morning and I couldn’t get to sleep on the leather sofa I’d been accommodated with. Running through my arrangements for the next couple of months to pass the ...
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It was December 1997, and I was waiting expectantly for the most important Christmas present of all. The Playstation sat warmly waiting, countless reviews suggested this was going to be the best game ever. With a quick unwrapping of the paper I held it in my hands; Final Fantasy VII. The box was bigger than ...
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