Reviews
SNIPER ELITE III REVIEW
Sniper games have always held a certain fascination for me, the glorifying feeling of taking a soldier out from a great distance never gets old for me and the Sniper Elite series is admittedly my favourite among these games. Recently the series has extended onto the new generation of consoles in the form of Sniper Elite III from Rebellion and 505 Games. The major attraction for me, and so many mor...[Read More]
ABAN HAWKINS AND THE 1001 SPIKES REVIEW
Aban Hawkins And The 1001 Spikes is currently only available on the US store of Xbox. This is a huge shame as this platformer has so much to offer gamers it’s tantamount to robbing the developers when you buy it. Aban Hawkins is a man on a mission, quite a big mission in fact, in which you basically have to get through these catacombs of death the best way possible while leaving you the player wit...[Read More]
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack Review   Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side scrolling adventure by the Toronto based developer DrinkBox released on Xbox360, PS3, PS Vita and PC. I got my hands on the Xbox 360 version of the game for the review. When I saw the title of the game I simply assumed that I would be spending the next few hours of the game killing mutant blobs, I cou...[Read More]
VALIANT HEARTS: THE GREAT WAR REVIEW
We are constantly being bombarded with games about war, shooting, and death, but few have ever touched upon World War I as it’s subject. Valiant Hearts: The Great War has made strides in bringing this nearly forgotten war back into the forefront of our minds and hearts. With the 100 year anniversary of the start of World War I being this year, Ubisoft Montpellier designed a game to remind us of ho...[Read More]
Qvadriga Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Qvadriga Review   Variations on a genre or a concept can be extremely different, especially given time and creative thinkers. For example, top down, or an eagle eye view, has always been a popular view for strategic games due to the nature of the genre and the availability of information from such a sight. Some developers may capitalize on this trend by making you, the player, a god-like entity...[Read More]
OUTLAST REVIEW
Few games over the years have made it into the list of what I would deem as a true survival horror, and fewer still have totally scared the crap out of me. Outlast is a game that now tops that list both on a scary level and on being a true survival horror. In fact, this game has probably scared me as much as any great horror movie I have ever watched. The developers of Outlast, Red Barrels, are ma...[Read More]
Xenonauts Review – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Xenonauts Review   The hardest part in any X-COM-alike game for me has always been the beginning. Not only are you severely underpowered and mostly oblivious to the alien threat, but you also have to quickly catch up with all the complicated mechanisms that make up the game’s deep gameplay experience. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll have to do that two times over since the game basically...[Read More]
Enemy Front Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Enemy Front Review   War sells games, that’s a fact! Whether it is fighting on the battlefields of World War II, or fighting an alien army on some far fetched planet, it sells! Enemy Front is no different, going for the age old ‘defeat the Nazis by any means possible’ approach. To make a good shooter it has to be believable, it has to make you feel like you are in that war zone fightin...[Read More]
Project Root Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Project Root Review   If you played video games back in the 90s, there’s a good chance some of your most memorable childhood moments include playing a shmup. Maybe it was R-Type, maybe it was Raiden – doesn’t matter. The genre these titles belong to had some very distinctive traits that were hard to ignore. We’re talking bullet hell, highly improbable spaceships and ridiculously numerou...[Read More]
RICHARD AND ALICE REVIEW
Richard and Alice is a point and click adventure game with a pretty confusing back story. Imagine a world where it started snowing one day and never stopped, that’s kind of what has happened here. It is inferred that in this wintry hell hole society has broken down leaving people struggling to survive and gangs have taken over the wintry wasteland. The first stumbling block that I encountered in t...[Read More]
Battle Group 2 Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Battle Group 2 Review   War sells a tremendous amount of video games a year, a phrase that may be controversial and perhaps spark debates, yet it has never been truer. The glorification of gun wielding soldiers in a deprived and often backward part of the world in the name of peace appears to be a huge selling point. You merely have to glance towards Activision and Dice as an example. The pro...[Read More]
Ionball 2: Ionstorm Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Ionball 2: Ionstorm Review   I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a gamer that truly dislikes Arkanoid and/or Breakout titles. There’s something magically attractive about the legendary gameplay mechanic that consists of destroying numerous tiles with a paddle-propelled ball that bounces back and forth like a confused meerkat between two holes. Yes, I’m aware that the comparison sucks, bea...[Read More]