Game: Bodycount Format: PS3, Xbox 360 Developer: Codemasters Guildford Studio Publisher: Codemasters Touted as a spiritual sequel to propulsive 2005 action game Black, Bodycount puts you in the shoes of a special agent for an international spy agency named The Network. Literally dropped in to warzones and other trouble hotspots around the world in a [...]
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Fri, September 9 2011 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » No Comments
Game: Call of Juarez: The Cartel Format: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC Developer: Techland Publisher: Ubisoft Call of Juarez is a series that has always hovered unobtrusively somewhere in the mid-list. The first game was an awkward, though interesting, western-themed shooter that gave way to a more action-focussed sequel, the civil war-set Bound in Blood, [...]
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Mon, July 25 2011 » PC/Mac, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 3 Comments
Game: Shadows of the Damned Format: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: EA At the outset of Shadows of the Damned, Garcia-fucking-Hotspur declares that this is the start of his own personal road movie. While this might seem like a statement of intent on the part of the game’s creators, what follows is [...]
Tags: EA, Elliot Mears, PS3, Review, Shadows of the Damned, Shinji Mikami, Suda 51, XBox 360
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Sat, June 25 2011 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » No Comments
Game: Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Format: Nintendo 3DS Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Resident Evil 4’s The Mercenaries was perhaps the greatest game extra ever made, taking peerless action gameplay and stripping it down to its barest essential component: kill or be killed, a perfect loop of risk and reward. Popular enough to see a [...]
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Thu, June 23 2011 » 3DS, Reviews » 13 Comments
When it was announced that Goichi Suda of No More Heroes and Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil 4 were teaming up to create an action game, you might have expected them to produce something of consummate technical skill and baffling artistic mentallism. And you would have been right.
Tags: 360, EA, Electronic Arts, Elliot Mears, Goichi Suda, Grasshopper Manufacture, Preview, PS3, Shadows of the Damned, Shinji Mikami, Suda51
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Mon, June 6 2011 » Previews, PS3, Xbox 360 » 4 Comments