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FIFA Football 2004 spent five weeks at the top of the UK charts, consolidating the position of the series after its early 2000s wobble. Particularly with a new…
Amidst the year of sequels, Star Wars: Battlefront still provides something of a first in the list of UK #1 games. Online multiplayer has been a prominent component…
The Sims 2 took the series forward in its simulation of life and death. The death part was straightforward and nothing new for games at all. Many of…
Contemporary reviews of Conflict: Vietnam mention its position as part of a wave of games based on the Vietnam war, alongside Vietcong: Purple Haze and Shellshock: Nam ‘67,…
I’ve talked previously about 2004’s status as a year of sequels, when all the most successful games were built on established franchises. None were more established than this…
One of my favourite musical tricks is the prominent absence, with my favourite demonstration in the song “One More Night” by Canadian indie band Stars. It starts with…
[For a guest post I am once again pleased to hand over to excellent writer and Spider-Man fan Shaun Musgrave, who last appeared here writing about Onimusha. Shaun…
By 2004, the scene for British developers making third-person driving/shooting gangster games in vastly detailed cities was increasingly crowded. Rockstar’s 3D Grand Theft Auto games took the original…
Codemasters, Xbox, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 24 April 2004
Ubisoft, Xbox, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 27 March 2004