Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Terrance Brown
Hideki Kamiya seems to have a knack for making over the top Japanese action video games, with Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe and Resident Evil all being listed on his CV. So when you load up Bayonetta and are greeted by the sight of a long haired witch wearing glasses, sucking on a lollipop and killing demons with guns strapped to her feet you shouldn't be too surprised ...
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Monday, 15 February 2010
Henry Dowling
I love the snow. I love skiing, snowball fights and building unintentionally disfigured snowmen. So it should be no surprise then that I make a point of watching at least some of the Winter Olympics on the box when it comes around every four years. Sporting events of that magnitude always carry a sense of grandeur, an aura of expectation for greatness, and a spirit of ceremony which is all stylishly packaged for viewers at home with the usual broadcasted overexposure to sponsors' logos and corny mascots. That's the real Winter Olympics. Sadly, much of what makes the event an entertainment spectacular has either been drastically marginalized or is missing entirely in Vancouver 2010: The Official Game of the Winter Olympics ...
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Friday, 05 February 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
SEGA's iconic methamphetamine addict is making a comeback to Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. And because SEGA wants to pretend all that horrible stuff in between never happened, they're picking it up from 1994's Sonic the Hedgehog 3, with Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 ...
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
A new teaser trailer reveals an upcoming futuristic action title from SEGA, entitled Vanquish. It's currently in development over at Platinum Games, the same folk who had their hand in the wildly popular, Bayonetta. And that's just about all anyone knows about Vanquish so far ...
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Friday, 29 January 2010
Henry Dowling
Gamers who shovelled a small fortune of coins into the original After Burner arcade game back in the good old days will be pleased to hear that Sega has revealed that the updated After Burner Climax will hit the Xbox LIVE Arcade in Autumn this year ...
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009
Henry Dowling
The premise of Planet 51 holds so much potential for a fun animated romp: Instead of the usual scary green alien coming to invade poor defenseless earth, this time it's a human who has landed on an alien planet, striking fear into the hearts of the peaceful inhabitants. Add in some great voice talent (including Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Justin Long and Seann William Scott) and the now standard array of quirky characters, and you've got the recipe for some wholesome animated holiday fun. That's the movie covered. Now take the movie, tear out its charming soul and replace it with repetitive fetch-quests, bland voice acting and clumsy controls, and you are left with Planet 51: The Game ...
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Monday, 24 August 2009
Henry Dowling
It takes something special to win in a popularity poll including games like Wonderboy and Streets of Rage, but these two extraterrestrials have done just that ...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Tarryn van der Byl
We saw this one coming about a month back, and now it's totally hit the Marketplace. You want Gunstar Heroes, Shinobi Phantasy Star 2, Comix Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Altered Beast? Well, you got Gunstar Heroes, Shinobi, Phantasy Star 2, Comix Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Altered Beast! Actually, does anyone really want Altered Beast? It's kinda crap ...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Steven De Klerk
SEGA has released a new teaser trailer and screenshots to remind us that Aliens vs. Predator is well underway over at Rebellion - the same folk who knocked out the classic Aliens versus Predator back in 1999 ...
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Friday, 15 May 2009
Tarryn van der Byl
It's the post-apocalypse. On Earth. I think it's Earth, anyway. I mean, they never actually say where it is, not even during the 5-minute FMV that opens the game. But everyone's talking with American accents, so let's just pretend either way. So it's a post-apocalyptic let's-pretend-it's-Earth. Not entirely sure what precipitated the apocalypse in question, but it was obviously something really, you know, big and apocalyptic. Anyway, some unspecified time later, it seems two factions sort of got up from all the dust and rubble and everything. There's the Echelon, your regular butch space marine-types, who apparently survived the fallout by means of some sort of artificial hibernation, and then there's the Sai, the guys who didn't bother avoiding the fallout and got all sorts of cool mutant powers and stuff. Well, they mostly just got these dangly tentacle things that hang off their heads, but that's probably where they get their powers. Makes perfect evolutionary sense or something, apparently. Obviously the two sides don't get along, because that's no fun at all. So they spend most (all) of their time killing each other instead of doing anything tedious and practical, like rebuilding civilisation. You blunder into the midst of all this when you're yanked out of hibernation and promptly redrafted into active duty in the Echelon war effort. "Oh, hi! It's, like, four hundred years later," says a hypothetical designated waker-upper. "Here's your mech suit. Have a super day!" It might be four hundred years later, I'm not actually sure. It didn't say ...
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