5. XIII

First person shooters has been somewhat of a hit or miss genre on Nintendo consoles. Whilst we marvel at the greatness of GoldenEye or Turok, we also have to live with the likes of The Conduit, they are either absolutely spot on, or abysmally bad. These days Nintendo strive to develop some of the most accessible, family friendly games on the market, I’m of the opinion that they should also pump a bit of that cash they’ve got lying around into a sequel for the little gaming gem I’m going to talk to you about today, XIII (or 13 if you don’t know your Roman numerals).

Tags: 360, Adam West, bank robbery, bfbc2, BOOM!, cell shaded, COD, COD MW2, comic book, crofterz, Crysis, David Duchovny, espionage, Family Guy, FPS, GameCube, Goldeneye, Halo, James Bond, Killzone, microsoft, MOH, Mulder, newbreview, Nintendo, POW!, PS2, PS2 Online, PS3, Shooting, Sony, T.U.G.Y.P.S.P, The Conduit, The X-Files, The XX, Thoroughly Underrated, Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play, Turok, Ubisoft, Wii, X-Files, xbox, Xbox Live 1.0, XIII

more... »

Adam thinks…For thrice

Dear reader,

We at The Newb Review, are committed to bringing you the latest and greatest game related content possible. So look out for that, in the meantime though, why not continue reading the third installment in our “Adam Thinks…” series? We found this one washed ashore in a bottle, and it sees our friendly neighborhood idiot tackle the subject of achievements, trophies and the like.

Tags: achievements, Adam Radcliffe, Adam Thinks..., Bill Gates, Blur, For thrice, gamescore, idiot, It'sActuallyAdam, Kinect, microsoft, moron, Nintendo, platinum trophy, PSN, psycho, Sonic, Sony, Star Catalogue, Star Points, The Future, Trophies, Wipeout HD

more... »

iRate: Baddie Boss Bashing

Have you ever experienced the sheer horror of getting to the end of a game and being totally and utterly disappointed? Not because the game was bad, oh no, it was just that end boss was such a huge let down? Well fear not my friend because you are not alone!

Tags: Bowser, Brumak, Capcom, Cloud, crofterz, Dr Robotnik, Dr Wily, End of Game Bosses, Epic, FF7, Final Fantasy 7, Ganon, gears of war, General RAMM, hitler, irate, Killzone 2, Mario, Mecha Hitler, Mega Man, microsoft, Nintendo, sega, Sephiroth, Sonic, Sony, Super Mario Bros, Wind Waker, Wolfenstein 3D, Zelda

more... »

Review: Ninjatown Trees of Doom

Dear reader, cast back your minds and you may remember a lovely little article I wrote about the fabulous game for the Nintendo DS, Ninjatown, (if you can’t remember, or haven’t read it, it’s here: http://tiny.cc/qr6xy). However to summarise it all for you, I simply loved it.

So then imagine my surprise and delight, when it was announced that a brand new Ninjatown game was coming to the App Store, for all the tech whores in the world to play on their shiny new iPhones, iPod Touches and….URGH! iPads, (*vomits*). Fortunately for me, tech whores…I am also one of you! And not so much as a second after the game had been available to download, I had downloaded it myself.

Tags: app, app store, apple, Bill Gates, canabalt, crofterz, Doodle Jump, iphone, ipod, ipod touch, itunes, Mucho Macho Moustachio, newbreview, Ninjatown, Ninjatown Trees of Doom, Nintendo, Plants Vs Zombies, Review, Shawnimals, Super Ninja, Wee Ninja

more... »

Review: Alien Breed Evolution

It’s bedtime and you’re getting ready for yet another hyper-sleep, but despite the vast emptiness of space you still had the unfortunate luck to exit warp drive, right in front of an inconveniently parked ghost ship. Even more unfortunately, said ghost ship just so happens to be a sex cauldron for the Alien Breed, a very angry, race of aliens, who are kind of p*ssed off that you have rammed a gigantic space ship shaped hole into the side of their lodgings and want nothing more than to see you evicted or eaten.

Tags: 360, Alien Breed, Alien Breed Evolution, aliens, dead space, It'sActuallyAdam, microsoft, Review, Sci-fi, Survival horror, Team 17, Worms, xbla, xbox, xbox live, Xbox Live Arcade

more... »

Newbreview E3 Special (Part 2)

Part 2 in our series of 3, special E3 2010 podcasts, sees Crofterz and Tom pick apart Nintendo’s press conference featuring: Some actual decent looking games for the Wii (including the new Zelda and Donkey Kong games) And the official unveiling of the Nintendo 3DS [podcast]http://realmworx.hipcast.com/deluge/3adc58c1-012b-1cc3-4a2a-58cd89b41ad5.mp3[/podcast] MP3 Download / iTunes / RSS Feed

Tags: crofterz, e3, Fils-Amie, Miyamoto, Nintendo, Reggie, Shigsy, The Newb Review, Tom Wallis, Tom01255

more... »

Adam thinks… For twice

People are lazy, very lazy, (me especially), but its not written into our genetic code, or a result of our upbringing, it is in fact the consequence of our ever growing intelligence and the utilization of our intelligence to create more and more gadgets and gizmos, which sole purpose is to make our lives a lot lazier.

Tags: Adam Thinks..., apocalypse, apple, Arnie, Bruce Willis, Cyborgs, Darwinia+, Hollywood, Impending doom, Introversion, ipad, ipod, It'sActuallyAdam, itunes, J. C. Denton, left 4 dead, Mass Effect, microsoft, Multiwinia, Robot uprising, Robots, sega, shenmue, Tech, Technology, Terminator 2, The Future, war

more... »

4. Lost Odyssey

As we drift ever so closer to the blisteringly hot and exciting time of the gaming calender that we call summer, let us ignore the beckoning calls of the E3 Expo and first turn our attention to the games that have already come out.

We’ve had some gigantic titles already released in 2010, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, God of War 3 and Bioshock 2, just to name but a few. However, it’s probably safe to say, that the 1st quarter of this year as only truly belonged to one game, Square Enix’s latest offering of the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy 13.

Everywhere you went, from the sides of buses, to billboards, from full page adverts in magazines, to advertisements on that little, (or big), box we call a television, Final Fantasy 13 was there. In fact I heard that Square Enix had pumped so much money into the marketing campaign of Final Fantasy 13, that they actually tried to make it an international law that every person over the age of 16 in the world had to buy at least 10 copies of Final Fantasy 13, 1 copy to play, 9 copies just to sit on your shelf, or something like that, anyway.

Despite it’s ridiculously big advertising campaign, the wait for Final Fantasy 13 was a long one, and in between Final Fantasy 12 and 13, Microsoft Game Studios released, the great, and often forgotten about, Lost Odyssey, a game so much in the vain and style of the Final Fantasy series that it was even produced by the creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, Hironobu Sakaguchi, (pronounced He-Row-Know-Boo, Sack-A-Gooch-Ee, I do believe).

Tags: 360, crofterz, final fantasy, Final Fantasy iiix, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Kaim Argonar, Kiyoshi Shigeematsu, Lost Odyssey, microsoft, Roleplaying Game, RPG, Square Enix, T.U.G.Y.P.S.P, Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play, Thousand Years of Dreams, xbox, XBox 360

more... »

Review: Encleverment Experiment

Game: Encleverment Experiment
Format: 360
Developer: Blitz Arcade
Publisher: Blitz Game Studios

Aren’t you just pig bloody sick of all these brain teasing, brain training titles that clutter up our local game stores? I know I am. We have everything from brain training to spelling training, from Big Brain Academy to bloody Brain Age: Arts & Letters, what’s next? Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Training? Now that’s a game I’d personally like to see.

So, in a genre heavily stagnated with titles, step right up Blitz Arcade’s Encleverment Experiment, a brain teaser game that attempts to dispel all of your preconceptions about brain training games by taking the genre and trying to making it fun and enjoyable!

Tags: 360, arcade, Blitz Arcade, brain training, crofterz, Encleverment Experiment, Nintendo, Professor Ivor, Quiz, Review, xbla, XBox 360, xbox live, Xbox Live Arcade

more... »

Review: Heavy Rain

Game: Heavy Rain
Format: PS3
Developer: Quantic Dream
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment

*This review of Heavy Rain does NOT contain any spoilers*

Heavy Rain as swept across the globe! No silly i’m not talking about the weather, i’m talking about Quantic Dream’s latest PS3 offering, Heavy Rain, a game which is as impossible to review as it is groundbreaking. It’s near impossible to review because not only is it extremely hard to talk about this game without revealing any spoilers (whilst also trying to avoid sounding like a pretentious d*ck) but it’s also nigh impossible because well, you could say Heavy Rain isn’t really a game at all.

Tags: crofterz, David Cage, Ethan, Farenheit, Games, Heavy Rain, Interactive Fiction, Jayden, Madison, Mightyles, Origami Killer, Playstation Network, PS3, PS3 Exclusive, PSN, Quantic Dream, Review, Scott, Sony

more... »