Tag: PlayStation 3
The closer I move towards the present day, the more out of reach much of the history gets. Online elements became a central feature of more games, and barely more than a decade later the servers are shut down and they’re gone.
Back in 1998, Gran Turismo arrived close to fully formed as a deep racing game with impressive handling and an upgrade loop that made playing it an experience…
Fighting a god from a vantage on top of a giant, God of War III starts with operatic grandeur and scale, turning and twisting as part of an…
There is a cutscene near the start of Uncharted 2, a flashback revealing the inciting incident for its plot, which took me by surprise. It involves lead character…
There is no getting away from the same central truth that was there in 1995 and 2005. Popularity and formats come and go, and that truth remains. Cricket is a long, slow game.
Obvious inspiration is taken from some of the best bits of Gears of War and Halo, and high fidelity recreations are presented. All of Killzone 2’s mechanics are executed with impressive precision. That leaves just one problem, which is that it has a gaping void in place of personality.
From Commodore 64 to Amiga to PC, I grew up playing so many different football games. Many of them (and more besides) reached the top of the charts….
Playing through the UK’s chart-topping games of the PlayStation era cemented a link in my mind between two of the biggest of them. Metal Gear Solid and Final…
There was a whole decade across the ‘90s and ‘00s in which console gaming in the UK, at least in terms of a machine to connect to your…