Sony’s Wonderbook is an “augmented reality” addon for the Playstation Move. In the Wonderbook package you’ll get Book of Spells, which is the launch title, and a 12-page hardcover book that has various symbols printed on it – the Wonderbook itself. The Playstation Eye camera uses the symbols as a reference point so that when [...]
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I’ve been trying to come up with a classier term to describe Medal of Honor Warfighter, but perhaps it’s best to just be blunt: it sucks. I wonder if anyone at Danger Close knew this when they were developing it, if the playtesters reported back to the developers “hey guys, you’ve fixed all the bugs [...]
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Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper is one of the many third party launch ports for the Wii U. Mitchell McCausland dives into the abyss to figure out whether labelling it a “launch port” is an insult or not… Hardware launches can be such a finicky thing, especially with the launch line up. Sometimes they are small [...]
View Post koei, tecmo, warriors orochi 3 hyper, wii u
Sleeping Dogs has had a long and troubled development history. Initially called Black Lotus, development on it started way back in 2008 at United Front Games. Activistion then decided to make it a new entry in the True Crime series, entitled True Crime: Hong Kong. Later on they decided to just call it True Crime [...]
View Post open world, open world game, playstation 3, sleeping dogs, Square Enix, united games front
Littlebigplanet Karting is a faithful reconstruction of the littlebigplanet formula for the kart-racing genre. But does that devotion for pitch perfection deter it from being an engaging racer? Mitchell McCausland digs deeper into the cushy tracks of the Imagisphere to find out… God I love Stephen Fry. His ability to eloquently dictate even the pedestrian [...]
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A long, long time ago I used to edit the tracks in Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed so they were entirely downhill without any corners, just so I could switch to bumper-cam and make the cars go ridiculously fast. Even though there was virtually no challenge to the game once I did [...]
View Post Criterion Games, Electronic Arts, NEED FOR SPEED, Need For Speed Most Wanted, nfs, PS3, RACING
A change of hands has proven to enhance the greatness of Halo 4 in many regards, as Mitchell McCausland writes. Today, I caught up with an old friend. When we last saw each other there was a sense of closure in the air. We knew that while our time together was bliss, the time had [...]
View Post 343 industries, bungie, cortana, halo 4, master chief, Microsoft, Xbox 360
XCOM: Enemy Unknown successfully revives the Microprose classic into the modern age with grace and poise – yet aspects of its diehard formula may not go down well with the modern gamer, as Mitchell McCausland discovered all too well. Reboot. Remake. Revival. It is all the rage. In the age of rising development budgets and [...]
View Post 2K games, Firaxis Games, microprose, playstation 3, xcom, XCOM:Enemy Unknown
Reviewed by Mitchell McCausland. “Save us, oh beloved Harvey Smith, save us!” chant the crowd of disenchanted gamers as the flood of sequels push their way to their chambers. Tinkering away somewhere near Lyon, France, creative directors Smith and Raphael Colantonio and the merry band of devs at Arkane Studios have conjured up a game [...]
View Post arkane studios, bethesda, corvo attano, Dishonored, dunwall, harvey smith, Raphael Colantonio, Xbox 360
In 2010, core gamers finally got the adult Zelda game they’d be clamouring for years, the surprise was that the hooded protagonist wasn’t Link and the developer wasn’t Nintendo, Vigil Games had made their own take of Zelda featuring the massive horseman of the apocalypse, War. Darksiders follows the structure of a classic Zelda game, [...]
View Post DARKSIDERS II, PS3, ROBERT SAKALUK, rpg, thq, Xbox 360