A few years ago, I was complaining to someone about how bad the controls were when I was playing a videogame. I can’t remember the exact game, but that doesn’t really matter. The person I was chatting to said, “go and play QWOP and then complain about controls.” Seeing this as a personal challenge, I […]
Long gone are the days where I used to play golf, but thankfully my even longer history with playing golf in video games continues, and the latest game to have me putting (no pun intended) on my virtual plus fours and hitting the greens (or missing them entirely!) is PGA Tour 2K21, built upon the […]
Making games is hard! I’ve been playing videogames for nearly 40 years, and I often get the feeling of déjà vu. Ideas get recycled, things get chewed up and spit back out which will hopefully resonate with a new audience. My point being, it must be tough for developers to come up with truly innovative […]
Having completed Destroy All Humans on its original release back in 2005, I was looking forward to revisiting 1950’s America and once again taking control of the alien antagonist Crypto as he quite literally tries to “Destroy All Humans” with a varied array of handheld weapons, psychokinetic abilities and his “flying saucer”. The first thing […]
Mortal KombatPlatform: ArcadeReleased 1992Publisher: MidwayDeveloper: MidwayThis isn’t necessarily a retro review, more of a chance for me to share some memories of Mortal Kombat. I’ve been a fan of fighting games for a long time. The Way of the Exploding Fist, International Karate +, and who could forget Street Fighter 2? I still remember like it […]
If I ask you the question, “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea” and you look at me blankly, then move along. If, however you shout back “SpongeBob SquarePants” you have no doubt been exposed in some way to the absorbent, yellow and porous one known as SpongeBob SquarePants.Like millions of others, I’ve watched […]
Have you ever wanted to kill your sibling? Personally, I’m an only child so I’ve never experienced this feeling. But, I have two daughters and often see them squabbling over the most ridiculous things. So as much as they love each other, I’m sure they sometimes have the urge to smash each other’s faces in!Thankfully, […]
Much like I mention in my review of Hunting Simulator 2, I am once again immersed in a world doing something I wouldn’t normally do, but absolutely loving doing it in this wonderful virtual playground called video games. I’ve been fishing once in real life (over 40 years ago) and soon discovered that it wasn’t […]
I have a soft spot for Isometric games! My childhood was spent playing games such as Batman, The Last Ninja, Desert Strike and Rock n’ Roll Racing to name a few. Of course, there are more modern examples of games using this viewpoint, but seeing isometric games always takes me back to a simpler time […]
Video games are amazing, they can open up worlds and allow you to do things that you couldn’t normally do. Want to race a Formula 1 car? How about pilot a 747 across the Atlantic? You can even battle aliens in outer space should you so wish. They also allow you to do things that […]