I haven't played any of the Killzone games. Even so, as Edge gave the brilliantly atmospheric Bioshock and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune both 8/10 I would have found it dubious if Killzone 2 had got as high a score as them.
Just as many (probably) who love Killzone 2 do so because they look gritty shooters, I am biased. First of all I don't like the title. 'Killzone' sounds like an emotionless way of saying 'Controlled bloodbath'. If only it was as straight forward as that in a Qu...
I'd like to add Alone in the dark for introducing survival horror, Sonic the hedgehog for being a rollercoaster of a game and attracting a lot of people to gaming and the Monkey Island series for being the funniest, wittiest games I've played.
In truth, I think that a great game defines gaming regardless of whether it was the first of that genre.
Although Bioshock has the odd glaring moment- if you stay swimming around in the Atlantic for hours on end (I imagine) at the start you don't tire/freeze (or get attacked by the odd shark) and come to harm and the vita chamber cannot be damaged by weapons- why can't I kill somebody throwing things at me from a balcony with my own firepower?- it is one of the most brilliantly atmospheric games to play.
As I've previously said, either on here or the CVG site, the idea of a steam ...
'According to NPD, the game managed to sell only 140,000 in 2008, despite being released around the same time frame as Fable 2.'
Are they saying that Fable 2 sold well and so it's a surprise that Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and bolts didn't sell well? It's comparing 2 different kinds of games (apart from the fact that Fable 2 is also made by a British studio). Fable 2 wasn't a different kind of game from Fable either.
'If Rare would have stuck to the original platforming...
1. Manic Miner- heralds the British surrealness/irreverence in games that would be seen in games such as Jet Set Willy, Rick Dangerous, James Pond, Lemmings.
2. Donkey Kong Country- great colourful 3D models.
3. Banjo Kazooie- Mario 64 was first but Rare make one of the best 3D platformers.
4. Jet Set Radio- Dreamcast (and the best Xbox game to me)- practically invented cel-shading in games.
6. Resident Evil remake (Cube)- reinvented a great game in such a well pro...
Such a shame that the article fails to acknowledge that Nintendo have squarely tied themselves in with their roots as toy manufacturers and wouldn't want to compete as media centres. I wouldn't want them to- I buy consoles to play single player games (or games against people in the same house)- nothing else.
I've already commented on this on the CVG site (in fact I'd have made the first comment there if I hadn't taken so long to write it):
'Let's imagine, for a moment, that the conclusion that gamers are more likely to drink and take drugs is true.
There is still no excuse for the conclusion that
"The most striking part is that everything we found clustered around video game use is negative."
Relatively little or no books have yet been...
Free Radical were an OK studio for a while (although I've only played Timesplitters 2 and the single player campaign was greatly limited) focussed on one genre, the FPS, composed mainly, at least to start with, of staff who decided to leave a great studio Rare who excelled in many different genres.
People have thought/said for years, if only by their 'oh you're not playing that stupid game' kind of comments, that games are not art. Ebert now states that if a Campbell's soup tin can be art then games can be art but he says that they cannot be 'high art'.
I question some things:
1) Why does being 'high art' seem so important to Ebert as validation of videogames worth when their aim may in some cases to be deliberately, and artistically, focussed on being a li...
I hate the headline: 'The 16 best games that you've never played'.
No, the are 'The 16 best games, in our opinion, FROM 2008 that we supect you've never played even though we don't know you and have never done a poll to establish how likely it is that you have played these games'.
It's not a catchy headline I agree but I hate the attention seeking headlines that are simply inaccurate.
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I've only played one game online- Quake 3 Arena- by many accounts still one of the best multiplayer games. As much as I liked it, I realised that it was because of the interesting level design more than the fact that it was online.
The key cornerstone of creativity in videogames remains creative individuals, working on their own or in teams, to make the games, not the fact that I can kill a sprite operated by somebody across the other side of the world.
To name a...
Stop referring to the next Xbox console as the 'Xbox 720'! (including whoever posted that picture for this article).
It almost certainly won't be called that (unless Microsoft's marketing department are really lacking in foresight and imagination) for the main reason that the number '720' is now synomonous with the entry level standard of High Definition televisions. That would never sound next gen enough.
'Xbox 1080' would be a much better bet as the next Xbox console n...
I know it's opinion and the author does say 'what I believe' but I still can't take a list that doesn't mention Resident Evil 5, Uncharted 2 or Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams seriously (I know we haven't seen much of the last game and it isn't being worked on by Kev Levine but, on the form of the previous game, it is still worth a mention).
Some (or perhaps all, I haven't checked) of the 'PC' games mentioned (e.g. Left 4 Dead) are also available on consoles (Xbox 360 in this case). It seems to me that the inference of the article is that realism in videogames is a good thing. Most people in real life are not princesses. Does that mean that Mario should stop rescuing them?
Some games exclusively made for consoles, as Resident Evil and Uncharted: Drakes Fortune were, have featured relatively realistic female stars (...
The articles says 'Dead Rising may have been the first great zombie game, but L4D is easily the best'.
Even if you don't count 'Zombies ate my neighbours' as the first great zombie game (and there may have been others before that), what about Resident Evil? (I can't remember if the first Alone in the dark game had any zombies in it).
James Pond II- Robocod was set at Santa's toy factory and got 90%+ reiews. Christmas Lemmings was also highly rated. So Christmas Nights is not the only good Christmas themed game.
Fail.
Call me old fashioned but I'd rather read about the games that somebody has played than the ones they haven't.
Otherwise it's like buying a newspaper and reading an article by a journalist saying 'These are the news stories that I would have liked to have covered today but I just couldn't be bothered'.
Yes, what happens is that heat from the 'Red Ring of Death' acts as a kind of solder that immediately repairs most of the scratched discs.
;O)
Can somebody tell me why Killzone 2 is so great?