A game that’s written
in constant rhyme
feels quite different
to any other title
It’s alright to groan
at this style of review
but it helps set the tone
for what you’re getting into
An Ubisoft game
that isn’t shit,
Child of Light
just might be it!
I recently picked this game up on the cheap and it’s been an unexpected ride. Far from a cut-and-dry puzzle game, Hollywood Crimes comes with a bizarre morbid atmosphere brought to life with creepy live actors who take their roles very seriously. The concept makes no apologies for its blatancy, you’re a contestant in a Puzzle Game Show in 1961 and weird things are happening between rounds. A killer leaves touch screen puzzles (with instructions) behind at crime scenes and the FBI calls you for help. Yes you, the Game Show contestant who has competed in 1 round!
Continue reading “James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes 3D – Hotel Death”
(Original Script by Matto. Image and Script Editing by Grubdog.)
In case you haven’t heard the news yet, all that free advertising Nintendo gave to Rayman Legends turned out to be absolutely worthless on Nintendo’s part: Rayman Legends is no longer a WiiU exclusive and it’s being put multiplatform, and as such it making gaming journalists, analysts and haters hard in the pants. The reasons given are batshit stupid but what is even more insane is the fact that the game, which is pretty much finished, has been delayed by six months and is now forced to compete with Grand Theft Auto V. Continue reading “In Today’s News, UbiSoft just screwed over Rayman Legends”
ZombiU opens with uncertainty. Just what the hell are we getting into? Is the game good, bad, scary, ugly, beautiful? Music plays with a scattered melody as a man stands alone. Sweat drips from his face as the hopelessness of his situation sinks in, he’s surrounded. He threatens to give the scene a 4 out of 10, but the zombies pay no mind. They walk the streets with lopsided confidence. They know how dangerous they are, and soon everyone will.
Wii U has certainly had a big impact on my gaming world, and getting my first real fix of Just Dance (bundled with the console) is one reason why. I’ve tried to play this game a number of times and always failed, dismissing it as something that didn’t even work. I’m moving the Wii Remote up… the girl on the screen is moving the Wii Remote up… why aren’t I winning?
It has been a few weeks since the WiiU launched, and I am loving it. Miiverse is amazing, ZombiU is amazing and New Super Mario Bros U is pretty close to topping Super Mario Bros. 3 is terms of being my favourite side-scrolling Mario game. While the game journalism side has already been torn apart by Grubdog, its time for me to tear apart the other BS part: the third parties. Continue reading ““I like my new WiiU, but I won’t make games for it!””
As we near the Wii U launch, we also near the launch of a surprisingly-original Ubisoft title in the form of ZombiU. It’s a fresh take on the survival horror genre, and is more of a Resident Evil game than Resident Evil 6 is.
The gist of the story is that John Dee, head magician of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, made a prophecy of a disaster that would eventually come to pass as the zombie apocalypse presented within the game. The player is not the main character of the story (the main characters are the NPCs you meet over the course of the game), but instead takes an interesting angle in that we step into the shoes of a random Joe on the streets of the plague-stricken city of London. Once they die, it’s Game Over for Joe #1, and we move onto the life of Joe #2 (or Jane #1). It’s a fairly straight-forward story, or at least what little of it we know of at this point in time…
But is that the whole story?
Are there ghosts lurking within the shadows of London? Why are they there? What purpose could they possibly serve in what was a seemingly straight-forward story of survival in a Z-Day situation? 27 days remain…
Zombi U was the best game at the entire Expo. That concludes the Zombi U impressions, now let’s take a closer look at the GamePad.
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