On PS3 and 360, Lego Star Wars III is a great looking game. Combining gorgeous environments with sharp detail and an unbelievable amount of geometry and enemies on screen at once, its a real visual treat.
Fantasy Author and Narrative Director
Month: March 2011
You know that here at CalmDownTom we’re big fans of the Mount & Blade series, right? Well to get you ready for the upcoming Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword we have 5 copies of it precursor, Mount and Blade Warband to give away.
Battlefiled 3, Eden, turn based stretegy and dirty, dirty 3DS stories.
Tiny Wings is one of those games that’s almost impossible to fault. It achieves every goal it sets itself. Bright, cheery, compulsive, cheap (59p/79c) and immediate, it’s the product of a brilliantly talented single games designer.
Many great games have been cruelly overlooked because of terrible box art while many others have been successful in spite of it. Here’s my selection of some of the very worst.
Crossover combat, Dust, natural disasters and fatalities
You may have seen the utterly ridiculous complaints made by fans of Dragon’s Age 2 that the game is “too gay”. Accusing games of failing to satisfy the straight male market is a bit like those idiots who say the most discriminated-against group in western society are middle-aged white men.
Duke Nukem delayed, untrustworthy robots and Snakes on a plane.
Whether its obvious (but plausibly deniable) rascist billboards, fake viral videos or tasteless PR stunts that offend very carefully chosen minorities, there’s no lengths to which modern games marketing won’t go to avoid actually showing some gameply footage.
Can Rift cause a rift beween rival MMORPG’s and their players?….sorry…
We recently highlighted Mount and Blade in a retrospective and previewed the newest game in the series: “With Fire and Sword”. We were lucky enough to catch up with Mika’il Yazbeck of Taleworlds who told us all about the past and future of the Mount & Blade franchise.
The original Dragon Age may have had flaws, but it never lacked ambition. The question was, what changes would Bioware make for the sequel?