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“More style points” – John Woo Presents Stranglehold

A couple of months and several million miles away from 2007’s procession of summer blockbuster adaptations, Stranglehold is also based on a film. Specifically it is a video…

“Petty morality” – Bioshock

The underwater city of Rapture is an amazing place. I tend to love when games do big things with their settings, and Bioshock really goes for it. There…

“Many uses for the Wii Remote” – Wii Play

The current UK #1 game is Horizon Forbidden West. It has now returned to the top of the chart in May and June 2022 three times. This is…

“Now, that’s a car” – Transformers: The Game

There is a central freedom to Grand Theft Auto which helped power its success and got picked up by so many of its successors. Move around a city,…

“Saving a lot of data” – Pokémon Diamond

It’s not just the DS’s touchscreen which changed the game; its clamshell form brings an additional bit of tactile magic. Open it up and a world inside comes…

“Any passing Slytherin will do” – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[As with previous Harry Potter games, I have donated the total I’ve paid for Order of the Phoenix media including this game to a British charity supporting trans…

“Fundamental movement” – Forza Motorsport 2

Way back when I was playing through 1995 I talked about how the way the games industry is organised, with rival console exclusives, leads to both a general…

“Even your mother would be embarrassed at your oafish moves” – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

The game Spider-Man 3 was a continuation of a well-received series, made by a respected developer, using a movie series which was a perfect fit for the type…

“I offer you power” – God of War II

[After another bit of a gap from guest posts, I’m very happy to introduce one again! I’m once more welcoming David C James, whose previous posts here include State…

“That loopy thing” – Pokémon Ranger

Nintendo’s casual revolution didn’t just start with Wii Sports. Over in the slightly less fraught handheld gaming arena, the Nintendo DS had launched the best part of two…