Heavy Rain is Quantic Dreams stab at a new genre in video gaming, the “Interactive Drama”. It’s a murder mystery with plenty of twists to capture the player, a sublime cast of characters, and a whole cinematic approach to everything. With more mature themes and moral choices to make in a normal everyday world where normal things happen. Asking the question “How far would you go to save someone you love.” But does it work? Oh hell yeah! The story follows four main characters, developing their background stories, whilst investigating a series of serial murders committed by the “Origami Killer”. The ...
There are some games that transcend all genres, and all gamer tastes. Atari Adventure, Chrono Trigger, Halo - these games are the games that most people will remember the rest of their lives, and subsequently force their children to play at the age of gamering. Perfect Dark is a great game,but NOT one of those games. One of the first console FPSes to have really big douchebaggedry (Poison Knives in a corpse = fun!), Perfect Dark was Rare's big effort to improve upon the Goldeneye N64 engine, and they do improve upon it in so many ways. Well, the remake is ...
Why is business so intense? Why do companies in industries such as the videogame industry have to flaunt their product and plaster all the positives across their promotional interface to make more sales? This is what Sony and Zipper have done with their console MMO. They’ve taken the absolute best situation, squeezed out all of the positives from this situation and left a mashed up piece of shrivelled matter behind which acts as the negatives. Never has a piece of matter such as this been so important. Remember those early previews, how 256 players would battle it out, and they’d take ...
One thing that seems to have exploded on the videogame front this generation is user created content. At the forefront of this boom is the acclaimed LittleBigPlanet, the cutesy platformer with the most adorable little character and addicting levels. With LBP having seen releases on PS3 and PSP, Sony were sure they were onto a winner. And so they decided they’d warrant a LBP type racer, known as ModNation Racers. This was announced at E3, all the way back in June, where not only did we hear about the game first, but we also got a live demo by the games publishers. ...
This is the final week. I understand you busy gamers are just so busy that you’re busyifying this article. I assume busyifying means something like shortening or making words up to mean something. I can’t be 100% on that. You get on a plane, train, or an automobile that you’re hopefully not operating. Reading a book just doesn’t feel right, listening to music isn’t stimulating enough, and you’re not tired enough to sleep right now. What to do? Whip out your portable gaming console and start tweaking away on the portable gaming smack! But now here comes the big issue. What ...
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