‘VG Reviews’ Archives
Torchlight – Review
Believe it or not, I'm not big on RPG's and dungeon crawlers. As far as the later goes, Torchlight is actually my very first game like this that I have given a good go. So I'm not really fit to review this title from the standpoint of a fan of the genre, but I can still view it from an objective point of view. My first impressions with this [...]
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Once upon a time my mates and myself had a little game called 'Operation: Blow shit up.' We would start in any FPS game and deliberately set out to destroy as much property as possible by the use of explosives. Grenades, C4, pipe bombs, IED's, stickies, mollies, tanks, gas cans, you name it; if it exploded we explodeded it (yes, I did say [...]
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Review
I held a great deal of initial interest when approaching this title. Finally, after a couple of years out in the wilderness Battlefield was coming back home in force. It seemed DICE & EA were ticking all the boxes in aligning this game as the spiritual successor to the studio’s strong PC pedigree of multiplayer titles. However, I won’t [...]
Mass Effect 2 – The EPIC review
In this day and age the word 'EPIC' is far too over used. But what does 'epic' really denote? Something that is large in scale, and/or large in detail. Something that can not be viewed/heard/interacted with completely in a relatively short amount of time. Something that gives you things to think about long after you have left it alone. Battles can [...]
Review: Gratuitous Space Battles
This week in my limited gaming time I have been totally engrossed with Gratuitous Space Battles (henceforth "GSB") to the detriment of everything else, everything. Sure, I have plenty of quality home console games waiting for me; yet there is something about this indie title from sole developer Cliff Harris of Positech Games that really [...]
Blast From The Past: God Of War II
So I was bored over the Xmas/New Years break and decided to pull this game out again and have a crack at it. When I originally got it, it was brand new on release. I had literally just finished playing the original God of War and wanted more. So it was ironic that the second installation was about to be released around the same time. Now, for [...]
Review: Left 4 dead 2
The premier zombie shooter franchise returns with it's second installation. And this time, rather than just more missions and new skins, there's a whole lot more to offer. For those living under a rock for the last year and a bit, the world has been gripped by an infectious disease that has been turning people into raging zombies in the ilk of [...]
Review: Cheap games on steam
Alright, so steam of late has had some good games going for very cheap prices. Now this isn't exactly new to most steam users but I'd thought I'd do some quick reviews of games I have bought off steam for cheap. Oh, and I'm not going to get into the debacle of Cod:MW2 and Borderlands being priced against the local market instead of the US market [...]
EndWar
Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time strategy game released during the noise of last year's holiday period. If you are unfamiliar with the title, EndWar adapts its own approach to RTS controls on a console... make them completey unnecessary - well almost, but I'll get to that. Most of the game can be played through the use of voice instruction [...]
Gears of War 2
So last Sunday I clocked Gears of War 2 with a mate playing split-screen locally. Why then has it taken me the better part of 4 days to post up something about this achievement? I mean a games been clocked, so expect a review right? umm no... the answer is simple... there isn't much to say about Gears of War 2. I walked away from GoW2 feeling [...]
