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“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,…

“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…

“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…

“It’s a competitive world” – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is Rockstar’s second Grand Theft Auto game to go from a PSP game to a better-selling budget PS2 game. In many ways…

“New and exciting ways to kill a man” – Final Fantasy XII

In 2001, Final Fantasy IX arrived in the UK as one of the final popular PS1 exclusives and did so as a love letter to the past of…

“Looks like staying that way” – Pro Evolution Soccer 6

There is a saying often used in football that “the league table never lies”. It doesn’t always tell the whole story, though, and often an important addition is…

“The next match is never far away” – FIFA 07

2006 marks quite a turning point in the duopoly at the top of the football video games world. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 moved a week further back away…

“Safe driver” – Cars

Going right back to Way of the Tiger, Barbarian II, Sensible World of Soccer, there has been a lot of opportunity in taking already successful games genres and…

“Smash and Grab” – Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

I can see where the wow factor would have come from in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In 2001, when Grand Theft Auto III was achieving mind-blowing…

“EA passport” – FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

For all of the attendant pomp and ceremony, the World Cup is just a bunch of football matches, right? That’s the approach EA Sports relied on, with FIFA…