Month: July 2014
Heroes and Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Heroes and Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar Preview   Heroes and Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar is an turn-based action RPG. The game hasn’t officially been released yet, so some of the problems I found may or may not have been fixed by release date. The player starts with three heroes, Yaha (the warrior), Benedict (the mage) and Allen (the cleric), but will gain more as the game goes on. The pl...[Read More]
Endless Legend Preview | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Endless Legend Preview     There’s a certain flair to the word “endless†in gaming. Sure, we’re aware that no game is actually without an end, but with the latest advances in world and NPC generation, it can be said that we’re getting pretty damn close to building a game that is, for all intents and purposes, endless. Disregarding that, we gamers flock to titles that come advertised...[Read More]
TICKLES TOP 10 TRAITORS
No one wants to play a video game that is predictable and no one wants to play a game where everyone gets along. We love plot twists and intrigue but most of all we love a good old fashioned traitor. Without these unscrupulous ragamuffins many of these twists in games would never happen. Here is my list of my top ten traitors from games. There are obviously spoilers so… you know… duh. No.10 The Il...[Read More]
Mount Your Friends Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Mount Your Friends Review     Sexual innuendo! Who doesn’t like it? Well, people who are kinda awkward about the whole „crotch-in-your-face“ thing Mount Your Friends has going for it. Also, it’s not really implicit when the game has you controlling a dude in a speedo grabbing other similarly dressed dudes and climbing them in a rather jittery fashion. Anyhow, this is what the game fo...[Read More]
Is The New Bioshock Game In The Works? | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Is The New Bioshock Game In The Works?   In a strange and uncontextualized manner that’s rather typical of the Bioshock franchise, 2K Games posted the image depicted below on its official Twitter account.  Oooo, what COULD this mean?! pic.twitter.com/P93Nl643SU — 2K United Kingdom (@2KInternational) July 24, 2014 The commentary says: “Oooo, what COULD this mean?!â€. So, they’ve got ...[Read More]
ABYSS ODYSSEY REVIEW
Abyss Oddity, is the sort of terrible pun I’d be using to open this review I were a journalist lacking in any taste or decency, but I’m not so I won’t. Yet I were to summarise my feelings toward Abyss Odyssey in one word it certainly would be odd. Having completed multiple solo runs I still can’t quite decide what is I enjoy so much about Abyss Odyssey. Here’s my problem, alone certain elements of...[Read More]
Dieselstormers Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Dieselstormers Preview   Dieselpunk. You’ve got to love it. After all, there’s nothing quite like the combination of that old Victorian flair and grimy environments and, well, diesel. Black Forest Games – the devs behind Giana Sisters, have envisioned their next game set in one such universe. Where knights in shiny armour use chainguns and oil turns humans into orcs (wait, what?). Set ...[Read More]
Son Finds Father’s Ghost in Rally Sports Challenge | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Xbox Racing Game With a Touching Tale to Tell  You’d be forgiven for not remember Rally Sports Challenge a touring car game for the original Xbox, yet for one YouTube commenter 00WARTHERAPY00, Rally Sports Challenge will forever hold a string connection to him and his deceased farther. In an online discussion the topic of games providing a spiritual experience was raised, YouT...[Read More]
Back To Roots In Risen 3 | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Back To Roots In Risen 3 VIDEO MAY CONTAIN ADULT LANGUAGE  Just released is a new video for Risen 3 Titan Lords by Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes.German based cult developers Piranha Bytes, creators of the iconic Gothic series, are going back to their roots with the newest instalment of the classic role-playing series “Risenâ€. In Risen 3 Titan Lords, the key element is the vivid world and the ...[Read More]
DESTINY BETA IMPRESSIONS
Ever since Bungie launched Halo on the original Xbox back in 2001 they have earned a kind of reverence from the console gaming community. Bungie have finished with Halo and have moved on to their next big project: Destiny. I’ve managed to get my hands on the Beta version of the game and I have to admit that while I’m impressed I have certain trepidations. I’ll get this comparison out of the way ea...[Read More]
Unrest Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Unrest Review   How interested would you be in a game that has you controlling a poor villager, a princess, and a simple priest? How could a game that delves deep into politics and human sociology be taken as anything but an experimental software with little in the way of actual gaming value? As it turns out, Unrest manages to be both clever and interesting with little effort. Its combination o...[Read More]
Z REVIEW
I know quite a lot of people who enjoyed playing Z back in 1996, when I was a mere toddler. To get rights to re-release such a cult title is an honor in gaming, and it’s sad when studios take things like this for granted. While this might not be the case with what we have at hand today, I’m under impression that only minimal effort was taken to get this game released on Steam. Don’t get me wrong, ...[Read More]