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Bulletstorm review – FPS meets arcade fun

February 25, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Arcade, Bulletstorm, EA, epic games, FPS, PC gaming, People Can Fly, PS3, PSN, review, Xbox 360, Xbox Live3 Comments

Bulletstorm is a breath of fresh air for FPS games. The Duty Calls parody ad, complete with in-game cries of “boring” was a statement on the state of modern shooters, as if each were as serious a look at war as Platoon, Band of Brothers or Generation Kill. Of course, this Tom Clancyesque style of fiction has as much in common with reality as Plan B’s magical super subs, but that’s another story. Eschewing the gritty ‘realism’ of modern shooters for over the top science fiction is only the beginning,…

Singularity: Equilibrium

February 21, 2011September 26, 2012 Wesley Fok Activision, FPS, PC gaming, PS3, Raven Software, Singularity, Xbox 3604 Comments

Spoiler warning:This post reveals substantial portions of the plot, including the ending. In the wake of nearly every popular cultural phenomenon arrives a flood of imitators. Their reasons for existing aren’t always obvious, however; some imitators are obvious cash-ins, yes, and others are little more than tributes to the original. But some retreads have higher aspirations—inspired by, but not direct copies of. Maybe it’s an attempt to tell the same basic story in a different way, or tweak parts of the formula to make it more appealing to a certain…

Duty Calls walkthough video

February 4, 2011February 5, 2011 Doug Groves Bulletstorm, CoD, demo, Duke Nukem, Duty Calls, FPS, Friday fun, humour, PC gaming, PS3, video, Xbox 3600 comment

Maybe it’s my lack of enthusiasm for the Call Of Duty franchise, or ‘real world’ first person shooters in general, but the above parody hit the nail on the head. On a related matter, if you haven’t yet tried the demo for Bulletstom, I can’t recommend it highly enough. The general mayhem in the demo suggests that unless Duke Nukem can bring his A game in the humour department, over the top FPS fun may have a new king.

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Minecraft – A First Person Builder

October 2, 2010November 10, 2010 Pete Chapman 16-bit ALU, first person builder, FPB, FPS, Minecraft, open source, PC gaming, sheep, TNT, video, YouTube2 Comments

Two weeks ago my sixteen year old son, Reid, was playing with it. Earlier this week Cory Doctorow was writing about it at Boing Boing. What is this thing called “Minecraft”? If you know about it then you’re probably playing it. If not…then…so you don’t feel out of the loop tonight when the people who hang out in the kitchen talking at parties weigh in on this one: here’s a crash course. Minecraft is an online game which uses the visual conventions of a first person shooter for constructive purposes, literally….

Halo: Reach – a review and a fond farewell

September 14, 2010September 20, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, FPS, game review, Halo, Halo: Reach, Microsoft, multiplayer, ODST, review, Xbox, Xbox Live1 Comment

A Fond Farewell When Halo: Reach was announced as a prequel, a lot of gamers expressed their concerns,making comparisons to Lucas’s critical failure with the Star Wars movie prequels. This totally ignores that one of the defining differences between film and video games is that it’s pretty hard to make a game worse than the original. Unless, as a developer, you’re completely phoning it in, a large part of the art of game making, as opposed to film making, is tweaking the elements of gameplay, not just making the graphics…

At X’10 – Halo: Reach sneak peak

August 27, 2010August 28, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, co-op, event, Forge, Forge World, FPS, gallery, Halo, Halo: Reach, multiplayer, sneak peak, video, x10, Xbox 360, Xbox Live0 comment

One of the closed door events at X’10 this year was for the highly anticipated final chapter of Halo, at least from Bungie. Unfortunately, once we were ushered behind the heavy curtains we weren’t allowed to actually record anything, but we did get to see the first single player missions, Noble Actual and Winter Contingency in action. The single player gameplay was exactly what one would expect out of Halo, with even more polish put on the engine itself. While Reach introduces squad play, there’s no real squad mechanic in…

Awesome trailer for a game I have never heard of until today

October 27, 2009October 27, 2009 drsquid FPS, Futuremark, PC, Steam12 Comments

Futuremark, creators of the industry standard benchmarking tools 3D Mark and PC Mark, apparently have be working on a game, something that many people would hope they would do, given the quality of the ‘demos’ in their tools. I for one however was totally unaware that this dream had actually become a reality until today, when I saw this trailer. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Shattered Horizon is a zero G online only FPS. This is a PC only title, and with graphics like…