Recent content by brazenhead89

Wretched little game. The game's difficulty isn't the issue. The various bugs in the AI, controls and stages add a number of insurmountable hurdles to a title that otherwise might have been playable. As it stands, Metro 2033 is unfinished to the point of being unplayable, and despite the...

The one thing horror games are doing wrong is that none of them are scary! Jump scares and gore just don't cut it, especially now that players can sense them all from miles away. The best horror comes from the unexplained or unpredictable - and I beleive the best example of this so far is...

Oh, yeah, you need context, I agree. Doom, for example, has a perfectly good explanation for zombies and demons. But it doesn't fill the game with exposition, lame plot-twists, or cutscenes, and still manages to tell a story of a man escaping a facility and fighting his way through hell and...

I respectfully disagree that a game needs a storyline to be truly great. Brutal Legend was a game I really looked forward to which had a humorous, simple storyline, but the gameplay was broken as all hell. Yet there were some people I know that played through just to see the end. Why would you...

I'm occasionally sceptical that animal love isn't entirely selfish, but this video has always amazed me, and even warmed my almost permanently-blackened heart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNv2A4Kfx4k&feature=related I bloody love cats.

I've thought about this a lot, and it's bugging me more and more. Not all videogame stories are bad, but most of them, if we're honest, are truly terrible. Even the best ones certainly don't reach the narrative comprehension of books or film. The sad truth is, however, most games rely on either...

This has to be up there. I still remember the puzzles that lay behind those temple walls - one of my favourite gaming levels ever. I have to say, the moment I stepped off the train in Half Life 2 I was immediately amazed at how beleivable the setting was, and how drastic a departure it was...

Armed and Dangerous on the Xbox. A surreal, hard-as-nails shooter with a very British, utterly hilarious sense of humour. Absolutely nobody I know has even heard of this game, which is a shame. Also, Oni. Anime-inspired action game with hand to hand and ranged combat. Hard as balls, mind...

Yep, that's the one! In a wierd way, I would urge people to play it. Yes, it's the first game I've ever played that I HATED rather than just thought was bad, but in the same breath, I think that that's kind of interesting, and part of the reason I'm so interested in critique. I can think of so...

Ditto that, man. It seems to me that a lot of people like the storyline. I'm not even going to BEGIN there, but even so, each to their own. I was more intrigued as to how people could consider the game mechanics particularly good. Enemies respawn right outside the doorways of rooms you're...

Killer 7. Killer 7. Killer 7. I bought this recently and was actually inclined to start a forum asking what people enjoyed about it. Having received cult classic status I was so utterly determined to enjoy it. It is, in fact, poorly designed, riddled with bad pacing, completely bare-bones in...

How on EARTH is this game so critically acclaimed? Now, I'm not here to rip on Killer 7 (despite the fact I think it's the worst game I've ever played), I'm actually here for an explanation.... The thing is, you see, I'm an aspiring game critic and am amazed (or appalled, one or the other) at...

Mine's an odd one, but let me explain. Basically, I find only vintage horror, particularly from the 70s or 80s, is capable of scaring me. Why? I'll try my best to explain. First of all, the lack of CGI. CGI has no place in horror, it's far too smooth, far too clean-cut and far too obvious...

My ex was into a load of the ol' Wiccan rubbish, and tried to convince me that she spent most of her Christmas in the living room talking to a ghost. The next week, as she was in the army, she arrives to meet me from work with her head completely shaved as she fancied herself as "one of the...

I've been returning frequently to Bayonetta, as the level select option is a Godsend. In a way, repeating levels to get better medals, or trying them again in harder difficulties reminds me of Guitar Hero, particularly in regards to how perfecting a level or attempting it again with harder...