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).
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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).
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Hello! And welcome to the long overdue second episode of Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play, a series of articles from The Newb Review where we recommend some bloody good games that have been far over-shadowed, often by games with lower quality, but higher marketing budgets. Episode 1 (an article on the fabulous game Henry Hatsworth in The Puzzling Adventure, found here: http://rt.nu/9jissu) came out some time ago. However, as something of a new year’s resolution, our very own Crofterz has made it his mission in life to unearth these valuable gems for you, our beloved newbs.
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Hello and welcome to the very first installment of “Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play”, a series of articles in which I (Crofterz) act as some kind of know it all, deity and tell you about some truly brilliant games which may have flown under your gaming radars. In this edition I’m going to [...]
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