The brilliant Phil Harris of Blazing Griffin comes back to his favourite hobby: review-ifying!
Fantasy Author and Narrative Director
Month: September 2012
The charm of the little characters was really addictive – reminding me of older times, playing games like Worms and Canon Fodder.
Minecraft Battle of Hoth, New Splinter Cell, weird add for Rabbids Eeerz and new Dishonored footage
Its pretty far from revolutionary, and hardly essential, but the puzzle design is so good and there are enough nice little touches that it is well worth playing for anyone who loved Portal, 2D platformers or both.
If Tom asked me to describe Endless Space in just a few words, I would tell him to think about a fusion between Sid Meier’s Civilization and Star Craft.
By the time that you’ve performed your first stealth execution and witnessed a poor guard be eviscerated, you’ll be clamouring to kill everyone in the whole level the same way.
Playing this on the train is also very amusing, more for the reaction of other people than the game itself.
It’s a game with personality, and the core of the experieince is good, honest, face-punching fun.
Fall of Cybertron is a decent shooter with enough content to keep it interesting past the 10-12 hour single player campaign.
I thought, “I’ll give it a quick shot, 2-3 minutes, just to see what it’s like”. Next thing I know, I’ve not done any work for the past half hour. Whoops!
With a clever main gameplay idea, tough but fair puzzles and a nice (if divisive) look and feel there’s a lot to like about Out There Somewhere.
Zen Studios have been an unrivalled force for most of this console generation, starting with Pinball FX on Xbox 360, they’ve gone on to conquer PS3, 3DS, iOS and Android. Now they’re adding Sony’s Vita to that list as they release Zen Pinball 2 for PS3.