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Month: January 2013

Devil May Cry (PS2)

January 31, 2013 by Alexander Young Leave a Comment

With the recent release of Ninja Theory’s reboot of the series, DmC, interest in the Devil May Cry franchise is higher than it has been in quite some time. A retrospective look, then, at the title that started the franchise with such success is timely and also coincides with Game Over… Again’s reacquisition of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: capcom, devil may cry, ps2

Brütal Legend (X360)

January 19, 2013 by Alexander Young Leave a Comment

The collective reverence held for Tim Schafer across the video games industry is truly something special: one of the two minds behind the first two Monkey Island games, involved with Day of the Tentacle and The Curse of Monkey Island and writer of the cult classics Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, anything that has his name … [Read more…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: brutal legend, tim schafer, xbox 360

Randomness in rules

January 15, 2013 by Alexander Young Leave a Comment

Games are, at their most basic, little more than systems of rules; systems of conjunctions, disjunctions, conditionals, biconditionals and relations that provide structure to and set out the way in which a player is able to interact with the world. Using such-and-such an item will lead to an increase in a player character’s health; combining … [Read more…]

Posted in: Musings Tagged: encounters, items, randomness, rpgs

A Cupboard Full of Things You’ll Never Use

January 13, 2013 by Alexander Young Leave a Comment

I struggle to part with possessions: this is something that is immediately obvious to anyone who happens upon my abode. Old copies of Edge intermingle with video games from the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 era, with a small contingent representing the commercial woes of the Dreamcast and Xbox hanging around on the periphery of these … [Read more…]

Posted in: Musings Tagged: hoarding, musings, rpgs, rts

Anarchy Reigns (PS3)

January 13, 2013 by Alexander Young Leave a Comment

Heart; passion; love: this trifecta is something that we have to struggle to achieve in video games of late. The mass marketisation of the medium has led to some unfortunate financially motivated decisions, most prominently the release of identikit game after identikit game, with the singular difference between one game and the next being the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: anarchy reigns, platinum, review
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