Pixel-perfect plagiarism.
Three hours in and I can make two sweeping assertions about 3D Dot Game Heroes: 1. It has the Worst Game Title In The World… Ever and 2. It is the Most Meticulous The Legend Of Zelda (NES) Clone… Ever.
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Course he's A.Wake with all that coffee...
It’s mildly ironic that a title that tries its hardest to ape other mediums and thus transcend its own, is marred frequently by its insistence on incorporating run-of-the-mill videogame mechanics. Alan Wake is a cultural hodge-podge of influences, most notably
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Forecast: Black clouds, some murder.
It is hard to judge Heavy Rain against its contemporaries as it doesn’t fit into established genres. It’s impossible to compare its mechanics with those of another title, because it doesn’t bear any similarities to other games, other than the
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Two spartans for the price of one.
I had to stop myself from writing this review for the God Of War Collection after I’d finished the first game, ready to wax lyrical about the epic scale of Sony Santa Monica’s initial tale of God-slaying at the hands
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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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As I’ve mentioned recently, since the turn of the decade I’ve been obsessed with the online multiplayer deathmatches and dominations of a certain Modern Warfare 2, to the point where I’ve been seeing snipers in my sleep and idly fantasizing
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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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I always thought the Ratchet & Clank series was aimed at the younger market, saturated as it is with Saturday morning TV aesthetics, despite having never played any of its numerous instalments. Bright, bulbous visuals apart, I was mistaken –
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Platforming nuts and bolts.
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time makes no apology for wearing its influences on its sleeve. Whilst essentially an evolution of classic collect-’em-up platformers in the Banjo & Kazooie mould, it also casually apes the planetoid structure from Super
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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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