A quick reminder of how we review competitive gaming design. It's all about the 1, 2, 3: 1. A level playing field. 2. Effective skill-based matchmaking. 3. Accurate and fair skill & result-based ranking. Street Fighter V seems to do a very good job at all of these on the surface. In fact, despite everything … Continue reading Street Fighter V: Competitive Design Review
Format: XBox 360 Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 260 hours Modes of play: TBC Challenge Review: This is a solid fun challenge game with mainly good checkpointing & fantastic AI that makes even fairly standard FPS encounters more interesting. It's good in single player and actually better in co-op as finally, … Continue reading Halo Reach – Review
Format: XBox 360 Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 12 hours Modes of play: TBC My thoughts on Call of Duty as a game series. Challenge Review: As a single player challenge title, it’s a pretty dull standard first person shooter with scripted AI. In addition COD3 has some atrocious voice acting … Continue reading Call of Duty 3 – Review
Format: XBox 360 Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 15 hours My thoughts on Call of Duty as a game series. Challenge Review: As a single player challenge title, it's a pretty dull standard first person shooter with scripted AI. Competitive Gaming Design Review: I didn't really play this much as a … Continue reading Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare – Review
Format: XBox 360 Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 78 hours Read my thoughts on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as a competitive game here. More on my thoughts on Call of Duty as a game series in general. Challenge Review: Whilst the single player parts are pretty dull scripted affairs … Continue reading Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – Review
Format: PC Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 22 hours Modes of play: Single Player, Online Leaderboards Bastion looks & sounds really pretty and it's quite novel these days to see an action adventure game from an overhead isometric viewpoint rather than a 3D one. This … Continue reading Bastion – Review
Format: Xbox Live Indie Games Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 19 hours Modes of play: Single Player Apple Jack 2 is basically another 61 levels of Apple Jack. So there's not too much to add to my previous review of that as it really is more of the same. Jack still … Continue reading Apple Jack 2 – Review
Format: Xbox Live Indie Games Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 36 hours Modes of play: Single Player Apple Jack is a fantastic platform game with great puzzle elements. It's emphasis varies greatly from level to level, however it's generally more on the platforming 'execution' side than the puzzle solving, but both feel … Continue reading Apple Jack – Review
Format: PC Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 30 hours * (* unknown exactly how much of this was active time, as I frequently left the game on pause & in the background a lot more than usual) Modes of play: Single Player Half-Life 2 has all the flaws of Half-Life and it's … Continue reading Half-Life 2 – Review
Format: PC Reviewer: Remy77077 Approximate Time Spent playing at time of writing: 29 hours * (* unknown exactly how much of this was active time, as I frequently left the game on pause & in the background a lot more than usual) Modes of play: Single Player I've written quite a bit about Half Life before, … Continue reading Half-Life – Review
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