Black Ops review – only several months late

Call of Duty: Black Ops Format Reviewed: Xbox 360 Black Ops was released late last year. Its now March, and i’m sitting down to write a review. Why? Well, basically i’d actually forgotten i’d even played the game. Then i realised i hadn’t written a review in a while and thought, “Hey, didn’t i play [...]

Dead Space 2

Do you know when i first heard ‘creepy crying baby in a horror game’ sound effect? It was Doom, on the PS1. (which was actually a really great version, and had a soundtrack far superior to the shitty MIDI synth crap on the PC, fact fans). That was in 1998. It is now almost 14 [...]

2010′s mild disappointments #2

It’s never fun slagging off a game you love. Unless its Killzone 2. A game i quite enjoyed yet rather enthusiastically tore strips off over its numerous, teeth grindingly shit frustrations. But it’s with a heavy heart that i must include a game i love more than internet pornography itself, Dead Rising 2 on my [...]

Reviewing a review: Why Eurogamer’s Wolfenstein review can go suck one

Eurogamer, for those of you not aware, is a website where sufferers of low level downs syndrome are allowed practice their remedial english class via the medium of videogame reviews. Reviews range from ‘poor’, to ‘shit’, to ‘unfathomably shit’, and it’s largely down to the fact that most reviewers on the site are incapable of [...]

Resident Evil 5 – First impressions

Resident Evil 5 – Demo Horrific, for all the wrong reasons Well well. Resident evil eh? One of the longest running series in gaming, alongside Metal Gear & Tomb Raider, on every format under the sun from the Sega Saturn to the Dreamcast and all points in between. The Resi template had become as stale [...]

Zombies in videogames – A retrospective

Zombies. Second only to Nazis, and Zombie Nazis as the gamers cannon fodder of choice. If (when) the inevitable zombie apocalypse happens, it wont be the Bruce Willis’es, the Arnold Schawrzeneggers’es, or even the nerdy dude with the glasses in ‘The hills have eyes’ remake who killed all those mutants and proved hes not a [...]