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“Old friends” – Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

If the success of Shadow of the Colossus was the perfect proof-of-concept for games as award-season movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend is a good match for a…

“It’s just business” – The Godfather

In the mid-00’s, we were fully in the phase of others working out what they could learn from the success of Grand Theft Auto. Some of this came…

“Toutius Sextius, do you know him?” – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

I had saved the town of Kvatch from falling completely to the demons of Doom-world (alright, ‘Oblivion’), but it wasn’t that simple. Death and damage had already been…

“Stop buying your albums from the supermarket” – FIFA Street 2

In my post on FIFA Street, I talked about MC Harvey’s performance in the game, doing ”quadruple service as commentator, hypeman, provider of advice, and stand-in for the…

“Drop everything that moves” – Black

For all of Medal of Honor’s massive success for a couple of years, and the phenomenon of Halo, in early 2006 we still hadn’t quite reached peak First…

“Shrine of Worship” – Shadow of the Colossus

The Chart-track chart commentaries I have been putting at the end of each post tend not to get involved in matters of quality. From Juiced to Grand Theft…

“Congratulations on the Xbox 360 launch!” – Dead or Alive 4

I remember the first time I saw an HD game. It was after the PS3’s launch in 2007 and it was someone playing Motorstorm on a big screen…

“Let’s make a movie” – Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

[To finish off 2005, I welcome back Agnes Forrester, who you can find on twitter as @cartridgepink. Agnes previously wrote about A Bug’s Life and Sonic Labyrinth. Thanks…