Tagged: Fantasy

Rengoku

PSP / Reviews

6 May, 2010

Rengoku review

Rengoku was originally released for the PSP back in 2005. Let’s see how the game fairs up five years later after a rerelease on the PSN store in my review of Rengoku. For a two distinct reasons Rengoku reminds me of Rise of the Robots back on the Amiga. Firstly they both share a story about Robots that need to battle each other to the death, and secondly, they’re both pretty bad. Rise of the Robots was a typical 2D Beat em up that tried succeed in a market dominated by Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, it failed. Rengoku on...

Bayonetta image

PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

8 Feb, 2010

Review of Bayonetta

Matt Cuttle has already reviewed Bayonetta giving it a glowing review and score of 9 out of 10. Because Sega also kindly supplied me with a review sample I thought I should post my thoughts as well, especially as they don’t quite merge with those of Matt’s. So here for you is my review of Bayonetta for Xbox 360. Probably just like you my first encounter with Bayonetta was when Sega first started to release promotional pictures of their new gaming heroine. I can’t say I was particularly thrilled; not because I thought Bayonetta was unattractive or anything, but rather...

Darksiders

PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

12 Jan, 2010

Darksiders review

Plumbers and electricians don’t like to be called out unnecessarily and neither does War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Instead of just issuing the powers that be a bill for a callout, he’s decided to get revenge for this unnecessary trickery by working for The Council and ripping out the hearts of some big beasts in the form of some brutal if a little easy boss fights. Darksiders is a third-person action adventure and if you’ve played Devil May Cry or God of War then you’ll see the similarities here. War has a number of different weapons...

Risen

PC / Reviews / Xbox 360

26 Nov, 2009

Risen review

I’ve recently been producing a 24 hour gaming event for the new Dragon Age Origins game. It’s a massive 3rd-person fantasy RPG for PC and consoles so it’s going to be hard for anything to top it. Risen developed by Piranha Bytes recently came through my door so I thought I’d give it a go and see how it fares. The game begins when you, as a stowaway, are shipwrecked on an island called Faranga. You then slowly begin to work your way into the politics of two factions (the bandits and the inquisition) on the island and explore and...

Overlord 2

PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

24 Jul, 2009

Overlord 2 review

I quite liked the first Overlord game. Sure it had a few little problems like the camera control being the same as the control for your minions but nevertheless it was great to look at and fun to play thanks to some silly humour. I was hoping they would iron out some of the problems for this sequel but instead they’ve given us a slightly different game, only with the same problems as before. You play as a new Overlord in this game, starting off as a child you do a tutorial mission where you learn the basics of magic,...

The Lord of the Rings Conquest

DS / PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

29 Jan, 2009

The Lord of the Rings Conquest review

It’s been a while since Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy brought the classic Tolkein book to the masses and made the whole experience in Middle Earth very enjoyable. So it’s strange to see a hack ‘n’ slash game come out so late. Mind you, that hasn’t stopped Star Wars games still coming out so let’s see what Lord of the Rings: Conquest has to offer. The game’s developed by Pandemic, the same people who made Star Wars Battlefront, so in essence what we get here is a similar game but instead of being full of Stormtroopers, laser...

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