Archive for October, 2011

#484 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Posted: 30th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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96th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: PS2 Year of Release: 2001 Developer: KJEC Publisher: Konami Normally I’d like to do a little intro of the game here, give a short summary of what it’s about or what you’re doing. When trying to do it for this game, I must admit that I wasn’t […]

#475 Max Payne

Posted: 26th October 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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95th game played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC Year of Release: 2001 Developer: 3D Realms Publisher: Rockstar Games Now for another game chosen in part because of our memories of it. In this case, seeing friends play this game a lot, while I was intrigued with the gameplay, options and style. I’ve […]

#275 Super Metroid

Posted: 22nd October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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94th game played so far Genre: Platform/Shoot ’em Up Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo R&D 1 Publisher: Nintendo One criticism that has been levied at our blog is that when we review classic games (such as Paradroid and Earthworm Jim) we tend to look at games through modern eyes. Whilst […]

#754 Flywrench

Posted: 18th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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93rd game played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: PC Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Mark Essen Publisher: N/A A game so obscure that it doesn’t even have it’s own Wikipedia page? Well I never thought we would actually get this with a list game but here we are with Flywrench, an indie puzzle/action game that […]

#476 Halo: Combat Evolved

Posted: 14th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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92nd game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft We DID warn you in our post for Call of Duty 2 that it would be time for a little bit of Halo (yes purists we are only calling it thus instead of the more longwinded, yet […]

#630 Call of Duty 2

Posted: 10th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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91st game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision Whenever you launch a new console you really need that killer app to make sure you can tie in gamers early. Like how the original Xbox had Halo, which we will be covering very soon, […]

#245 Sam and Max Hit the Road

Posted: 6th October 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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90th game played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1993 Developer: LucasArts Publisher: LucasArts Take a smart-alec talking dog. Add a homicidial rabbit. Have them solve crime – preferably as violently and destructive as possible. Add to that plenty of (at times crude) humour, and you get Sam & Max. Starting off […]

#646 Guild Wars

Posted: 2nd October 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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89th game played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: ArenaNet Publisher: NCSoft And here we go, the first game in a genre of nine. The MMORPG are generally associated with its own type of players, with grinding to the beyond and players that are not always at nice… although at […]