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Tomb Raider Anniversary 2008-09-20 14:17:02 It’s been over ten years since the first Tomb Raider
was released on the PSOne, but as the famous quote states: “Sometimes To Understand Your Present, You Have To Go Back To Your Past” and that’s exactly what Tomb RaiderAnniversary
gives. However can the original allow for further improvements for this well known series?
Well... Read More
Grand Theft Auto IV 2008-09-16 07:08:18 GTA IV is in fact about the eighth or ninth GTA game, depending on whether the one on the Gameboy is to be considered a remake or not. Or in fact, the sixth or seventh depending on whether or not Vice City Stories and Liberty City stories are considered “proper” games. That is quite a... Read More Read more:Grand
, Grand Theft
, Grand Theft Auto
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist 2008-09-12 19:47:14 Throughout much of the nineties, the Turtles
were a permanent fixture on kids TV schedules, meaning the 1993 gaming tie-in was something of an inevitability. What was rather less inevitable however was how good it would turn out to be; whilst the Streets Of Rage games would continue to rule the roost when it came... Read More Read more:Mutant
, Teenage Mutant
Series That Shaped The PlayStation - Ridge Racer 2008-09-09 17:01:17 As a console that would ultimately sell over 100 million units, it’s perhaps understandable that a great many games contributed to the success of the PlayStation
. Ridge Racer
has a special place in the hearts of many gamers as it provided a link to the halcyon days of arcade gaming whilst also showing near-effortless technical... Read More
Ultimate Spiderman 2008-09-06 13:23:59 Being a massive Spiderman
fan ever since I was a wee nipper, it’s always a joy to find something new based on the licence, and so when I heard there was a new spider man game out for the PC, well I had to give it a try. This game is based on a fairly new... Read More Read more:Ultimate
Project Zero 3: The Tormented 2008-09-03 15:49:49 The Project
Zero series first flew onto the Playstation 2 in 2001 re-igniting the Horror Survival scene and capturing the attention of many gamers around the world with its terrifying scenarios and storylines that not only rival the brilliant Silent Hill series but also delves deep into Japanese superstitions and brings everything to life. In... Read More
ObsCure II 2008-09-03 15:38:01 Despite being playable, the first Obscure game didn’t create mega sales or even cause critics to stop and stare. So did we really need a sequel? Does Obscure 2 actually expand on its predecessor to produce a truly horrific, addictive and chill to the bone experience? Well in spite of this, Obscure 2 is actually... Read More
Stand By, Stand By - Chris Ryan 2008-08-30 14:28:45 Chris Ryan’s first foray into fictional writing struggles to hit the highs that its predecessor The One That Got Away managed. Stand
By, Stand By is written with the same attention to detail thanks to the authors SAS background, but beyond this its characters and scenarios are uninspired, meaning it never develops into a real... Read More Read more:Chris
Alien Breed 2008-08-27 18:48:59 This game is a conversion of one of the all time great Amiga games, originally released in 1991 by Team 17, this version was released later in 1993 and boasted a few extra levels and more graphics and colour. The game is a top-down action shoot ‘em up, where you control a guy on a... Read More Read more:Alien
, Breed
Rage Racer 2008-10-04 18:23:03 One the PlayStation’s greatest mysteries was the unenthusiastic commercial response that Rage Racer
was met with. A bold and sleek progression of the Ridge Racer franchise with greater depth of customisation, more cars, more tracks and arcade gameplay tuned to near-perfection, identifying a key factor for the lukewarm reception that greeted what was then easily... Read More
7 Sins 2008-10-01 14:56:35 On paper, 7 Sins sounds amusing, not breathtaking or ‘legendary’, but at least playable. A life simulation game that uses a winning formula of ’sim’ style Gameplay that adds a touch of rude humour and tantalising yet addictive mini games was all the PS2 needed in its long and exhausting life, right? Despite the appeal,... Read More
Steven Spielberg’s Duel 2008-09-27 18:08:33 Where do I start with the excellent film that is Duel? Well it was perhaps unwise to start with my opinion of it; those of an impatient disposition might well be inclined to have already stopped reading at this point. But for those who crave insight, reasons as to my conclusion might be convenient and... Read More Read more:Spielberg
, Steven
, Steven Spielberg
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller 2008-09-24 15:32:38 Many years ago, back in the dark ages of computer games (1994) this game was released by Take Two Interactive. A couple of years later I bought a copy, but it didn’t work on my old PC, so it was doomed to lay at the bottom of my games collection for eternity…
…Well eternity came and... Read More Read more:Thriller
Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist 2008-09-21 18:05:40 Magician was a full-blooded fantasy affair if ever there was one. Though it displayed its traditional, swords ‘n’ sorcery brand of fantasy with pride, it clearly didn’t do things by halves; over the course of the eight hundred or so pages the reader is treated to an endless array of colourful characters and witty dialogue,... Read More Read more:Feist
, Raymond
Jade Cocoon 2 2008-10-24 18:38:23 The true essence of an RPG, in my own opinion, is cut down into certain qualities such as character progression, storyline addiction and gameplay execution and over the decades a certain few has lived up to my expectations. Released in 2002 from Genki, does Jade Cocoon
2 have the right balance of the above to... Read More
Haunting Ground 2008-10-17 19:30:14 With games like Resident Evil, horror survival games, in my opinion have taken a turn for the worse. Action depicts gameplay meaning the ‘horror’ aspect really has been taken out of the game; I mean what has happened to the original ‘scary’ adventures such as Silent Hill and Project Zero?
I thought all was lost when... Read More
The Legend Of Spyro: A New Beginning 2008-10-11 19:33:34 Spyro’s third PlayStation2 outing (and sixth console appearance in total) saw something of a rebirth for the purple dragon. Despite its immediate predecessor, A Hero’s Tail, managing to recapture a good deal of the variety and simple, fun platforming antics of the revered PSOne instalments, many felt change was needed to allow the series to... Read More Read more:Legend
, New Beginning
, Spyro
‘48 - James Herbert 2008-10-08 18:09:59 James Herbert
has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as “The Rats” and “Haunted” to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horror and rightly so.
Up until recently I didn’t know much about Herbert as I was stuck in a bit of a... Read More Read more:James
Steel Dragon EX 2008-11-11 09:21:36 2D scrolling shoot ‘em ups, whether they’re of the vertical or horizontal disposition, seem to have become a dime-a-dozen on the PS2. As the genres strong points and weaknesses tend to be expressed universally throughout the range available, separating the best from the also-rans can often come down to little more than personal taste.
SteelDragon
... Read More
A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist 2008-10-30 17:55:37 A Darkness
At Sethanon happily avoids the pitfall that seems to trip the last leg of many potentially-great trilogies from time to time, as it continues the Riftwar Saga’s fine line in quality dialogue, characterisation and storytelling, whilst also providing adequate closure to a great trio of novels.
***WARNING – the following text contains minor story/event-based... Read More Read more:Feist
, Raymond
Dead To Rights 2 2008-12-11 19:26:25 It’s hard to shake the feeling that Dead To Rights
2 was conceived a generation or so too late. Little of Namco’s usual style, flair and assured quality are in evidence, meaning the player is left to battle with dated gameplay mechanics and a half-baked story that’s defined by its anonymous cast. When mixed with... Read More
Warriors Orochi 2 2008-12-08 18:48:26 As you may already have deduced, Warriors
Orochi 2 is rather similar to the fifteen other ‘Warriors’ themed hack ‘n’ slash ‘em ups that have invaded the PS2 over the last few years and the target audience thus remains much the same; those who find its gameplay unchallenging and repetitive will find plenty to dislike,... Read More
Christmas Period on GBF 2008-12-07 19:34:17 To celebrate the festive season, GBF have a quintet of new PlayStation 2 reviews coming your way over the next few weeks, where we pass judgement on KOEI’s mass-slaughter fest Warriors Orochi 2 and Namco’s shoot ‘em up Dead To Rights 2. Elsewhere, retro shoot ‘em up fans will get their fill with the unheralded... Read More Read more:Christmas
, Period
*GALLERY* Lunar: The Silver Star (Mega-CD) 2008-12-05 19:24:12 The process of translating a Japanese RPG must be quite a task – even the most modestly sized of role-playing games contain thousands of words of dialogue, and then there’s the question of whether a joke in one language will still be seen as funny in another. Many games contain genuine humour, whilst others highlight... Read More Read more:Lunar
, Silver
Lunar: The Silver Star 2008-11-23 16:41:01 Having been largely ignored upon its 1993 Mega-CD release and also the subsequent reimaginings that appeared on the Saturn and PlayStation, Lunar
: The Silver
Star has gradually amassed something of a cult-status. Developed by GameArts, it acts not only as a precursor to the brilliant Grandia, but in its own right, Lunar’s simple but effective... Read More
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