Originally written and posted on April 14, 2009. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift The original MotorStorm was an incredibly attractive game, unfortunately held back by its bare bone features and lack of content. The core gameplay was (and still is) a lot of fun but there just wasn’t enough of it to merit a full price purchase. [...]
Originally written and posted on June 16, 2009. Infamous Infamous is a third person sandbox style game developed by Sucker Punch Productions exclusively for the PS3. While Sucker Punch has had experience in 3D platforming with the Sly Cooper series on the PS2 (the company’s only other notable franchise), Infamous is only their first project [...]
Originally written on October 17, 2008. Burnout Paradise Racing games tend to camp out on two extremes of a difficulty spectrum, which often makes them very hard for me to enjoy. On one end of the spectrum, there are piss easy and unremarkable romps through juvenile cookie cutter track designs that lose any sense of [...]
Originally written and posted on February 6, 2009. Push Action films get a bad rep for being blue collar boom fests with nary an intelligent thought or idea to be found in the greased up testosterone fuelled protagonist, and if the conscious director wants to remedy this predilection, their first instinct always seems to be [...]
Originally written and posted on January 7, 2009. Slumdog Millionaire I think it’s safe to say that Danny Boyle is the most unpredictable director working today. In fourteen short years, the man has covered heroin, zombies, childhood fantasy, science fiction, and now Bollywood. It really makes you wonder if there’s anything the man can’t do. [...]