Author Archive for sketch
Worms 2: Armageddon – XBLA
Developer: Team17 Software Ltd / Publisher: Team17 Software Ltd
Creative weaponry, silly voices, and carnage – no it isn’t a gamer speed-dating event…everyone’s favourite invertebrate slaughter-mongers are back. Worms is one of those games so firmly entrenched in gaming culture that whether they have played it or not, most gamers will at least have heard of [...]
Guiding Light
As gamers grow and age, ripening with the industry, so too does the paraphernalia that accompanies them. It seems to me that gaming guides are becoming the sophisticated coffee-table book for our hobby; not quite ‘Pre-Raphaelite Curves’ or ‘The Little Big Book of Shite Modern Art’, but they aren’t far off. If I wasn’t so [...]
June Bugged
It was supposed to be a great month. The dawn of the second age of gamekind, the month the great games came upon us all. And then there were none. The plump hits started dropping off like dead parrots from a perch and suddenly, June is looking decidedly unappetising. Batman Arkham Asylym has been snatched [...]
Manual Override
I thought that perhaps throwing this into the wider pool of opinion would yield interesting results because I don’t wish to make a general statement about gender on the issue, however, I have noticed a trend when it comes to that oft overlooked part of gaming…the manual. Whether it is directly related to the part [...]
Pay It Forward
Helpfulness seems to be a trait that some (especially the more hysterical tabloids) would have you believe is careening out of sight of civilisation and plummeting straight to the depths of Hades before the proverbial handcart even picks up speed. To be honest, in many ways, they are not far wrong, but oddly enough, for [...]
Game Dawdling
Something that usually only pensioners and absent minded gardeners do is now creeping into my life in the most astonishing places – pottering. Or in other words, ‘faffing around’. Games like Sims 2 are meant for this type of thing as you spend time deciding which of the twenty almost identical stripy tops to pick [...]
Populous DS
Developer: EA Japan / Publisher: Rising Star Games
Twenty years ago, the God genre was kick-started by the work of two men, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright. While Wright introduced the world to Sim City and went on to produce arguably some of the most commercially successful games in the God genre and it’s Jesus offshoot, [...]
Reaver: Anti Hero and Cad
I feel that I’d better start this post with a spoiler warning for those who haven’t yet played or made their way to the furthest reaches of Fable 2. While I have tried to word things carefully, such a piece was not possible without a degree of spoilerific wordiness, so my apologies, you have been warned.
Having [...]
It’s a Classic…
Mark Twain once wrote “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” I know because I once saw it quoted on a Waterstones carrier bag. This can also be true in part, of games – or at least for me. Those who devour each and every popular release [...]
Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome – DS
Developer: cerasus.media / Publisher: Rising Star Games
For what at first glance seemed to be a ten-a-penny puzzle game, Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome strives to bring a little extra to the tile-swapping party and surprisingly, attains some success. Cradle of Rome is a puzzle game of the ‘match 3 tiles’ variety with the added task [...]
