Ah the joy of gaming… You finally sit down with the latest multiplatform release and let the gaming goodness wash over you, fully enjoying everything there is on offer. But hang on a second…There are bits missing aren’t there? It’s seems you can’t enjoy the same game as your rival console owners, not because of shoddy porting issues (we’ll save that for another iRate article), but because the developer has decided to sell off their reputation to the highest bidder and screw over around half of us gamers in the process. Oh well, at least they make a bit of extra cash…
Game: Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot
Format: Xbox 360
Developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2KGames
Any devoted readers of our site will know how popular last year’s Borderlands was amongst the staff. We must have loved it, because it was one of our nominations for Game of the Year.
The real joy we found in Borderlands came from not only the tight controls [...]
Game: Borderlands: The Zombie Island Of Dr. Ned
Platorm: XBox 360
Developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2K Games
For anyone out there that loved Borderlands as much as I did you can now download the first of a series of expansions for 800 Microsoft points off of Xbox Live, which is about £6.80 in real money. The Zombie Island of [...]
Zombies getting you down? Blasting them away with impersonal projectile weapons losing that viceral appeal? Want something a bit more tactile? Want to let the zombies get so close that you can feel their hot rancid breath your face before dispatching them with a satisfying “thwonk”? Then you need to get yourself a Baseball Bat. [...]
Game: Killzone 2 Flash and Thunder
Format: PS3
Developer: Guerilla Games
Publisher: SCEE
should start by saying that Killzone 2 was a console seller for me. It was the game that really pushed me into finally buying a Playstation 3. Up until that point I, like many, sat patiently waiting for a price drop that (so far) never came. [...]
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