My Words and Works
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 was a very late acquisition for me. Ordinarily I would have gotten it the day it came out, particularly since I enjoyed the first one a great deal. However financial circumstances and general unwillingness to pay £40 for a game (which is being unfair considering the same game in Australia would have cost me approximately 1.5 to 2 times that, but I still...
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I’m not sure what to make of Fallout 3: New Vegas. I knew when I started this game exactly what to expect because of one simple statement – “It’s the exact same as Fallout 3″ – and it wasn’t wrong. This game really is exactly like Fallout 3. Game play, controls, character interactions, landscape. It really is the same game with a new location and a new...
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I recently picked up this game after re-watching Zero Punctuation’s review on it and I picked it up on a whim. I had gotten to a point in Fallout 3: New Vegas (review pending) where I was getting frustrated and wanting something else to play and Just Cause 2 seemed like a fun alternative and it was…right up until the point I got bored. That might sound harsh and in the game’s...
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I’ve been writing these for a few weeks now. Initially for a work project but over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been perfecting them and making sure they are exactly the way I want them before deciding to put them out on the web. The premise of the Image class is a simple one. This class allows the programmer to load and manipulate an image hosted either locally or at a web address....
read moreThere are many things that can keep a person playing a game for many, many hours. One of the biggest and most important of these is story. Story is a key component in many games, particularly RPG and adventure games. Other game categories don’t require it as much such as sporting and fighting games, but for the aforementioned styles, its critical. Imagine game series like Baldur’s...
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