Invade-o-Trons from Planet Q Paul E. Collins Starglider’s Review: Claims to be the worst Space Invaders clone ever made, and I would be quite ready to agree. it even tells you that there is an error that occurs quite often.BUT… it does play, and error aside, it is possible to play. Still, it is an awful game! 6/10 Dunny’s Review: This is a BASIC port of the classic 70’s smash, “Space Invaders”. And what a mind-numbingly great port it is too. …
Never before has a game made me so angry. It’s not the sort of game I’d ever normally consider playing, and I didn’t know that much about it apart from that it was by David Cage (which itself meant very little as I’ve never played a Cage game) and involved a murder story. I thought it was a bit like one of the Telltale Games adventures, but more “cinematic”. But, coerced by two people I considered, until this point, as …
Of every games console or computer I’ve ever owned, the Sega Mega Drive is probably my favourite. It was my first console, and the one I own most games for. It also saw me through most of university, despite the N64, Saturn and PS1 all having just come out – I obviously didn’t have any money to buy them. It wasn’t until the end of 1999 that I bought something newer, meaning I’d had a full 8 years of Megadriving. …
Last week, there was an update for the 360. It was supposedly innocuous, simply providing the groundwork for some features not yet accessible. It wasn’t supposed to do anything to the system. Except, of course, for me. I can now no longer access the Marketplace. Joy! I can sign in and out of Live, send and receive messages, play games online, and all that – but the Marketplace is just… gone. I can still download stuff, by going to xbox.com …
Completely impractical, and later levels will be totally impossible, but playing Super Mario Bros with a theremin is… different. Kind of reminds me of playing Bubble Bobble on the Master System using a pair of pliers.
Well, I didn’t think I’d ever get there, but today I managed it. Unlike many other games, I really feel my skill within the game had actually improved, and it feels like a much more realisitic skill progression than the Tony Hawk style of stats and levelling up. In skate., it’s me that improves, not my skater. That’s not to say everything is better than Tony Hawk, though. The Pro Skater games are more arcadey and less realistic, but big, …
