Tag Archives: Appreciation Section

I say ‘welcome back’, because while we’re used to numbered sequels to this, the original SoulCalibur, the game was itself a sequel to arcade/PSone beat-em-up Soul Blade – a game that’s equally worthy of praise for its true 3D backgrounds and fights that actually looked like two people having a …

GTA III was a huge step away from the games I’d grown up with. Sure, I’d already played the first one on PC, but while it was a guilty pleasure with its civilian-flaming challenges and criminal underworld plot, on the surface it still looked like harmless children’s games thanks to …

Get ready! In the early 1980s, the idea of a 3D racing game where you drove through screen after screen of scenery was a pipe dream. But then Yu Suzuki came along and blew everything out of the water with Super Scaler technology. It could throw around huge, screen-filling sprites …

Imagine a world without Pikachu. Not very nice is it? A drab, post-apocalyptic wasteland that has had all the cuteness nuked out of it by homogenised buzz-cut war blokes, their brains algorithmically engineered with the un-science of violence. Yes, I know, I’m a grown-man and Pokermonz is for little babies …

So it’s 2005. I’ve recently seen F.E.A.R. played on my friend’s PC. It looks very, very special indeed. And even better, my friend’s PC isn’t as good as mine, so there’s no way I’m not going to be able to run it. So I buy a copy. And it doesn’t …