Review Blog – Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Agonised about how to rate this one. On the one hand it’s Deus Ex! The gameplay and mechanics are still in tact and Adam (Batman) Jensen is still as awesome and droll as ever. On the other hand it has some MAJOR flaws. For anyone who doesn’t know, DE: Mankind Divided (MD) is the follow…
Review Blog: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Yup, that’s right. This here blog post is a review of a computer game. That being said, my review focuses more on the story being told than the game being played. So last night I FINALLY finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Why do I say this like it’s an achievement? Because it is. This…
Dragon Age (without an) Inquisition
Having hacked my way through giant spiders and tiny velociraptors, my journey through the pitch black cave is finally at an end. I step out of the mouth and the light, though dim, blinds me for a moment and in that moment I feel the earth shake and a roar rips through the air deafening…
Review Blog – Destiny
Just over a month after release and I have done it! I have beaten Destiny. I have reached the level cap. I have completed every strike and mission. I have ignored a terrible PvP experience. I have completed The Vault of Glass. I have become legend. I have… run out of things to do. I’m…
Bland Protagonist Number 1 Saves the Day
So I recently had a discussion argument with a friend of mine over the impact of storytelling in computer games of today. Gone are the days when a game was little more than bouncing a square ball between two paddles and gone are the days when a few lines of text could effectively sum up a…