Posts Tagged 'xbox360'

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review: lollipop chainsaw

Posted by Laura Jul 01, 2012 Posted in reviews
review: lollipop chainsaw

The game’s main protagonist, zombie hunting high school cheer leader Juliet, is, like, totally blonde and sugary sweet. She wakes up and it’s so lame because like, it’s her birthday and there are zombies everywhere. Not cool! Out comes the heart-patterned chainsaw and the pom-poms and soon zombie heads are flying, with flips and flourishes [...]

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review: silent hill downpour

Posted by Laura Apr 15, 2012 Posted in reviews
review: silent hill downpour

An attempt to transfer Murphy to a higher security prison inevitably goes horribly wrong, leaving a bus of inmates and prison guards dead and Murphy stranded in “The Devil’s Pit,” a derelict tourist attraction, with no means of escape but a tram car down to… well, you can take a guess. To read the rest [...]

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review: binary domain

Posted by Laura Apr 01, 2012 Posted in reviews
review: binary domain

Binary Domain portrays such a future; a world in which technological development has become so advanced that among humans walk robots which look to be of flesh and blood, which have real memories, lead real lives and possess no knowledge of their true origin. Beneath the skin of these Hollow Children beats no heart, but [...]

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the emotion engine, or Frost the Sodding Horse

Posted by Laura Feb 06, 2012 Posted in features
the emotion engine, or Frost the Sodding Horse

If anything, it served to remind me that I am human, that the game is real for me, and that beneath the 1s and 0s beats a heart just like mine.

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Review: Dead Space 2

Posted by Laura Aug 09, 2011 Posted in reviews
Review: Dead Space 2

Dead Space 2 had a Hell of a lot to live up to. Despite meagre sales, the original Dead Space was one of the best games of 2008, with its macabre gameplay and ‘no one can hear you scream’ philosophy. Drawing on the sci fi horror greats in all ways imaginable, the first Dead Space [...]

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Review: Eternal Sonata

Posted by Laura Jul 22, 2011 Posted in reviews
Review: Eternal Sonata

Like all games of its kind, Eternal Sonata treads a very narrow margin of error. Its grand finale moved me to tears. It would probably move many others to vomit. Eternal Sonata is a combination turn-based real-time action JRPG, based on the dying dreams of legendary classical composer Frederic François Chopin. It’s not your average [...]

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review: enslaved, odyssey to the west

Posted by Laura Nov 21, 2010 Posted in reviews
review: enslaved, odyssey to the west

Pinning down a title like Enslaved is hard. It’s a good game. I would go so far as to say that it’s an amazing game. With big names like Alex Garland pitching in on the script and Andy Serkis co-directing the cutscenes, I wouldn’t really expect anything less. It’s a behemoth of a title, with [...]

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review: fable iii

Posted by Laura Nov 17, 2010 Posted in reviews
review: fable iii

Fable III picks up many years after Fable II left off: the Hero of the previous game has shuffled off this mortal coil and left their eldest son, Logan, in charge of Albion. Logan is proving to be an incredibly ruthless ruler, executing dissidents left and right while wrapping an iron fist around Albion’s industrial [...]

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review: alan wake

Posted by Laura Jun 20, 2010 Posted in reviews
review: alan wake

Meet Alan Wake, possibly the unluckiest guy in the world since Jack swam his way into some city named Rapture. Plagued with nightmares, writers block and strange visions, Wake decides to take a holiday with his beautiful wife to a secluded cabin in the mountains of Bright Falls. You can imagine just how well that [...]

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review: bioshock 2

Posted by Laura Jun 11, 2010 Posted in reviews
review: bioshock 2

The first BioShock has a special place in my heart. It was one of Those Games which got me foraging even deeper into the video game universe. Other games under the Those Games title include Pokemon, Silent Hill, Kingdom Hearts and Tomb Raider. It’s a classic, brilliant title demonstrating near limitless imagination and the beauty [...]