Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron

The Transformers universe has been somewhat of a reopened gold mine as of late. A brand new Transformers MMO has been announced for Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Russia, there are brand new toys in the shops and lest we forget the brand new, Michael Bay Transformers movies that have divided opinion (I personally enjoyed them), and all the merchandising that comes with them. But as with anything that is part of so many people’s childhoods, when franchises are revisited in such a way, there’s extreme pressure on “getting it right” and being true to the source material. So imagine my own scepticism then when it was announced that a brand new Transformers game entitled Transformers: War For Cybertron was on it’s way, especially after the most recent Transformers games I had played were the terrible, aforementioned movie tie-ins.

But Transformers: War For Cybertron is different, it stands alone.

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Mon, August 16 2010 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » No Comments

Confessions of a Trophy Whore

It’s rare that I can write about a (relatively) new aspect of modern gaming without that ever-familiar rage setting in. Quite often modern gaming makes me so angry, I’ll be sitting at the computer with sweaty palms, grinding my teeth down to little dentine stubs. I actually thump out most articles using clenched fists: hammering [...]

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Fri, December 11 2009 » Opinion Pieces » 4 Comments