The first few hours of Dante’s descent into the nine circles of Hell are certainly a visceral experience (geddit?), with the wailing of lost souls and the impaled corpses setting a dark, twisted tone for what is to follow; but
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War. Huh! What is he good for?
Darksiders’ wide-eyed adoration of God Of War and the Zelda franchise has been well-documented (both on this blog and elsewhere) but its gamut of influences doesn’t stop there. It even finds time to channel the 3rd-person shooter mechanics of Gears
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Bayonetta is a game like no other. An astonishing piece of entertainment.. scratch that, art, that brutally punished every flaw in my videogaming skills which defeated me around two-thirds into the game, I both loved it and hated it in
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Darksiders doesn’t so much wear its influences on its sleeve as sport the official fan club badges on its gleaming plated breast; ‘We ♥ God Of War’ they read, and ‘The Legend of Zelda Appreciation Society’. But if you are
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Toeing a line that splits astounding action with incredble frustration, Bayonetta is a whirlwind of action that perfectly encapsulates its medium; a madcap, crazy rollercoaster that would be impossible to realise in other media which continually surprises, amuses and enrages
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Another ‘old’ game (released in October 2008) that I received as a Christmas present, I initially expected not to enjoy Far Cry 2. The gritty setting and the emphasis on realism is something I normally shy away from in first-person
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Prince of Persia, the 2008 re-imagining of the series from Ubisoft Montreal, is a strange beast. It’s not a particularly good game, and it’s certainly not a challenging one. Yet despite that, I have been playing it to death, and
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A tip for anyone interested in the plot for Assassin’s Creed 2: keep notes. Ubisoft’s sequel will confuse the hell out of you, entwining Ezio’s central story within the modern-day tale of Desmond, whilst simultaneously muddying things further with cryptic
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It is a little ironic that a series in which the major currency is stealth, silent death and skulking in shadows that Assassin’s Creed 2 has you spend the first hour controlling Desmond (possibly the only character called Desmond in
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The trouble with first impressions is that they can often be misleading. Gameplay mechanics can sometimes still be a little alien to players new to them. Pacing and action elements can be chaotic and confusing in such a tightly scripted
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