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“Mega ultra power dosing” – Crackdown 2

Ponder the orb. All around in Crackdown 2, as in the original game, there are agility orbs which permanently boost your powers when collected. Collect them and you…

“Nowhere to run now, Dan Brown” – Alan Wake

There is a concept which rings somewhat true to me of an “anxious interval” in cultural nostalgia. As described by Elizabeth Sandifer citing Momus, the interval is “the…

“Shoot lights to create shadows” – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Seven years and six games into the espionage of the Splinter Cell series, it was about time for the entry where Sam Fisher’s own organisation are turned against…

“Ain’t no love in the world of international espionage” – Just Cause 2

For the past month I have been playing Just Cause 2 alongside The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It’s been an interesting experience because it has…

“The Dallas Cowboys go to war every Sunday” – Battlefield: Bad Company 2

I knew extremely little of Bad Company when I started Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ( basically that it was a first person shooter) and thought that I got…

“Kill everything that gets in your way” – Aliens vs. Predator (2010)

One thing that this project has kept on showing is that there is never just one story happening in games at any given time. When movie action games…

“Look Daddy, it’s you!” – Bioshock 2

Bioshock had big ideas of overturning standard approaches to video game storytelling, questioning philosophies, the horrors humanity can fall to, and the nature of free will. It even…

“They still die when you shoot ’em” – Mass Effect 2

When Bioware struck out from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with their own space opera RPG setting in Mass Effect, they planned for it to be…

“The signs were serious” – Forza Motorsport 3

Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…

“Here comes the dance of triumph” – FIFA 10

FIFA 10 has an achievement called “Real Fan” which is earned by playing the game for fifty hours. Since I played it on Xbox 360 both when it…