Pro Evolution Soccer 6 / Preview

There’s a special time of the year and again it’s fast approaching. A time when feelings between men are jolly and good willed, where kids laugh and frolic, birds sing their beautiful morning tune and even the starving have enough to eat if only for this one day – the day that Pro Evolution Soccer is released.

Published by GWN

GWN and Ferrago

I’ve started writing for US based games site GWN and UK indie site Ferrago

GWN will feature a preview for Pro Evolution Soccer 6, and I’m currently working on a review of The Godfather for Ferrago. Both pieces will duly be added to this blog.

Dead Rising / Review

Within a couple of hours of playing Dead Rising, I stumbled upon a DIY store. In that shop there were a couple hundred zombies ambling around, bumping into walls, moaning, that sort of thing (not completely dissimilar from my local B&Q on a Saturday). I was on the look out for a chainsaw – I’d heard that all sorts of carnage can be caused while armed with one and I reckoned that this was as good a place as any to find one. I did. I also found a fire axe, a sickle, a carving knife, a lawn mower and a traffic cone. With said items I went about committing the kind of psychotic zombie genocide that Bruce Campbell would have creamed himself over. In fact I went so crazy with the fire axe, that my onlooking girlfriend questioned my very well being: ‘what is wrong with you?’ She appealed. Indeed the sinister glint in my eye and wry smile must have been a tad disturbing on somebody she knows to be quiet by nature. If nothing else, Dead Rising turns you into a sicko. Caving in the heads of the undead has never been so addictive.

Published by RewiredMind

The Golden Axe / Don’t Hate The Player, Hate The Game

Age old issue. Barely worth talking about if it wasn’t for everybody talking about it. Worst still since everyone seems to know whom to blame but never really give an answer in conclusion. Gamers are the equal worst in provoking argument. Especially when the opinion is that graphically violent imagery in games does not influence people in any way. It’s an ill thought out argument and if Jack Thompson (notorious US lawyer with an erection for all things non-violent) is far right, then gamers of this inclination make up the lunatic left.

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MotoGP 06 / Review

In my dreams I ride a beast of a motorbike. Not a Harley, no. Look good, but no speed. No something like Street Hawk (google it those under the age of 24) minus the missiles. Something fast that eats up the road and blurts a cracking bang when I accelerate past anything in my way. Unfortunately the closest I’ve come to this is passing my cycling proficiency test when I was nine – which is no mean feat.

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Coffee Break / Review

I once scolded a middle-eastern woman in my local bakery with a piping hot cup of coffee. I didn’t mean it. She put it on the counter in front of me and I went to pick it up – instead I knocked it over and the close-to-boiling liquid spilled all over her hand. She screamed a blood curdling one, which was very embarrassing as it was lunchtime and you can imagine how busy it was. I’d pretty much wiped it from my memory, or at least I thought I had until I loaded up Coffee Break.

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Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis / Review

There was this kid at school called Tuko. We used to play table tennis together. I never liked him much, but given the distinct lack of interest in this particular sport at my school, I had no choice but to suffer his presence and return ping-pong balls for 45 minutes every Thursday afternoon with him. What made matters worse was that he was better than me and would seemingly beat me with ease; his effortless finesse with the paddle made Forrest Gump look like an amateur, and me worse. After we finished school, I never anticipated that Tuko would ever invade my thoughts much and that was true enough, true enough that is, until Rockstar – famous for Grand Theft Auto, Bully and Manhunt – decided on Table Tennis as their next venture.

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Lack of updates

Plenty of reasons why I haven’t updated this. None of them are anything to do with laziness.

Anyway, I’m back up on it now. Any work completed in the last couple of months will be added duly.

Thanks.

Monster Hunter Freedom / Review

I’m a vegetarian and my girlfriend is a vegan. We generally refrain from games that involve the slaughter of innocent beasts, especially when it’s for sport. And for the first hour or so I genuinely felt bad as I stuck it to critter after critter (they happen to be dinosaurs and eventually dragons) with a trusting hunting knife. The animations and audio conjure up a quite grotesque scene as you slice and stab an animal that wouldn’t have been otherwise grazing in green pastures – no, instead it’s fighting for it’s life, wriggling defiant against your blade, or mine as it happened to be. Having said that though, I got over it. Primarily because Monster Hunter: Freedom is about as compulsively addictive as the PSP gets…

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Glory of the Roman Empire / Preview

Quite frankly I’m bored to the point of gouging out my own eyes at the thought of another city management simulation. Along with First Person Shooters, those developers without inclination or the imagination to simply make gaming better herald the management sim. It’s the safe bet. The home banker. A dead cert. Management sims are about as imaginative as those list of clichés – I could have made more of an effort, but why bother?

Published at RewiredMind