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Polishing the Halo
15th November 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Do you remember 2001? What a year; it felt like the future had arrived, despite the lack of hover cars.
Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter began their ownership of cinema goers’ hearts, Russell Crowe dominated the Oscars, we saw the launch of Wikipedia and the death of George Harrison. Fittingly, then, it was also the year Halo was released.
Halo Combat Evolved was, I’m told, a revelation in console gaming.... -
Gears Of War 3: A Review
22nd September 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I love a good cliché. Don’t you? The way a whole subject or personality is summed up one easy-to-notice bite and damages everything it was trying so hard to cultivate in its own style.
Things like grumpy commuters, Hollywood hot-shots like Charlie Sheen or moaning about not having the heart to dump someone even though you’re not that into them anymore. So cute.
Then there’s Gears Of War 3. This ‘blockbuster release’... -
How portals and a cake make sequels difficult
20th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Remember Portal, eh? What a brilliant game that was. Do you remember when you first played it?
Expecting little more than a glorified display of a funky new physics engine toy, we were given the perfect video game: a brilliant fuse of logic, story, mechanics and quirky end-game music. Ah, yes. What a game.
Or, maybe you’ve never heard of Portal. You wouldn’t be the first to scratch their head at this,... -
Warning: Halo Reach may seriously damage your social life
4th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
What really pisses me off about Halo Reach is that it’s really good. You might think that’s an odd thing to say, and you’d be right. I was aiming for an interesting opener.
As a follow-up to Halo 3, video gaming’s master of online, first-person shooting, Reach was guaranteed to be involving and plot heavy, with a slew of juicy new, and finely tuned, online features. What do you know, it... -
Eurogamer Expo 2010 – Disappointing
6th October 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The videogame industry is one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. Every year it excels with new technology and innovation and has garnered millions of eager fans in the UK.
So why was the 2010 Eurogamer Expo, Britain’s biggest videogame expo, such a massive disappointment?
I’ll tell you why; most of the games were brutish shooters, all clones of each other in most respects. There was also a woeful... -
What’s the big deal about Halo?
24th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The other week, one of the biggest releases in the recent history of entertainment made over $100 million in sales in around seven days. Impressive, eh?
Of course it is. But just how impressive depends on your disposition towards video games. Halo Reach, the last Halo game in what will probably be a while, was released to critical and consumer acclaim.
The creator of the game, Bungie, has been inundated with awards...
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A product of Scotland and a second-generation child of modern media, Richard's natural ability to form accurate and correct opinion has seen him work for a number of actual printed publications. He's tinkered with gadgets, condensed huge swathes of Cult TV and Sci-Fi into his head and has even stood on stage to tell jokes what he wrote himself. Now living in North London, he dedicates his life to guiding you through our planets maze of media hell.
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