2009 was a great year for games, we had Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Left 4 Dead 2 amongst others, and this year seems to be a continuation of that. It’s incredible to think that already this year we’ve managed to get our hands on Mass Effect 2, God of War 3 and Super Mario Galaxy 2, with games from the Halo, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Fallout and Castlevania series all still to come.
With a constant flow of big titles coming out there’s fierce competition and with that comes fairly big titles losing out on sales and somewhat slipping under the radar. No game this year sums this up more than Alan Wake.
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Tue, August 17 2010 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
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…
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Thu, February 4 2010 » Articles, iRate » 8 Comments
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 [...]
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Thu, January 28 2010 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » 2 Comments
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. [...]
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Mon, November 30 2009 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » 5 Comments
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. [...]
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Fri, November 27 2009 » Competitions » 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Beach Head, DLC, Downloadable Content, Flash and Thunder, kamiza, Killzone 2, Playstation, PS3, Review, Southern Hills
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Thu, July 2 2009 » PS3, Reviews » No Comments
