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Review: Walking Dead Episode 1 : A Game Of Tough Choices

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1 week ago
by Michael Dawes in , , ,

Telltale games turn their attention to zombies in an episodic adventure series based on Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comics. Do zombies and modernized point-and-click mechanics work well together?

 

 

To those of you who haven’t read the Walking Dead, or seen the (excellent) AMC TV adaptation – It tells the stories of the scattered human population after a zombie apocalypse. The narrative focuses on the interaction between characters and how they cope with the breakdown of society. Its closest approximation is George Romero’s classics if they went on forever in a constant loop of despair, More >

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Let’s hear it for zombies!

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3 months ago
by Michael Dawes in

I’ll get this out of the way first; I love zombie media. This article is in defence of the poor shuffling dead guys, and anyone making games featuring them. Over the past year or two we’ve seen a backlash against anything with zombies in it. There have been people calling it a fad, unoriginal, boring.

They’re wrong. Zombies hold a valuable place in gaming, and shouldn’t be so easily dismissed. (more…)

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The Last Of Us : Bad spores, good stories

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5 months ago
by Michael Dawes in

One of the biggest announcements at this year’s VGAs – The Last Of Us. The surprise for most was that it’s being developed by Naughty Dog. That alone has put it on most people’s radars. Though gameplay is shrouded in mystery it looks like an action/horror game with ND’s expected level of characterisation, acting and attention to detail. If you can’t wait to find out more about the game there are at least some interesting movies, games and TV shows that have explored a similar premise of killer infections. Here’s a list of some of the more obvious ones, though I’m sure I’ve missed a lot!

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GOTY? Guess again.

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6 months ago
by Michael Dawes in

You don’t need to be psychic to predict how the media’s GOTYs are going to turn out this year. Yes, there have been big budget hits and long awaited sequels. There have been exciting new franchises, returns of characters long left in stasis, and multiplayer gaming of a quality possibly superseding any year before.

But despite the big guns, the money makers, the games that are pushing gaming further into (and beyond) previous levels of cinematic mastery, there is one huge curve-ball. A game that has entertained, educated, scared, challenged, inspired and awed people of all ages. More >

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Reviews In Review: Replayability = Worthless?

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6 months ago
by Michael Dawes in
The first in a series of opinion pieces on flaws, inconsistencies and oddities in the gaming media.

What do you think a review means by replay value? It’s often cited as pivotal to a game’s overall quality. Many publications offer a replay value or “Lasting Appeal” rating that contributes to the final score. Whether they have a separate rating for it or not, you always get users commenting on replayability and how it affects their purchasing decisions. The length of a game’s single player campaign is always brought up, usually with someone saying “$60 for a 6 hour campaign!?” or similar. This More >

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