Recent content by el_mono

I'm very much reminded of Andy Kaufman reading The Great Gatsby, and therefore I approve of this.

Interesting stuff, I didn't know that and stand corrected :)

My pedant sense is tingling...misuse of the word "myriad" :) Apart from that, good stuff. Glad to see adventure games aren't dead at least.

A good review, well written and you covered pretty much everything. I would say that perhaps removing a few of the line breaks would make the body of text appear shorter but that's a small point. I do however have to question your statement that the job mini games are fun and not a grind. I'm...

When a game comes along with a number after its name, more often than not this means it's a successor to something. As such it becomes hard to judge it on its own merits, without comparing it in some way to what came before. Gears of War 2 is the follow-up to, somewhat predictably, Gears of War...

@Revelo Thanks for the feedback, I realised late into it that I hadn't really covered much apart from what you mentioned but I wanted to keep the length down. Relatively speaking of course. I know I may have overdone the dog part but then that seemed to be all Lionhead mentioned in the...

A good review, I was going to write one myself once I manage to finish the main story mode but there seems little point now :) I agree that it's actually quite nice to have a game that's challenging in places, I'm doing Gears of War 2 in co-op on hard and my friend and I both agree that's it's...

Creating a follow-up to any piece of work is always difficult. If the original was generally regarded as having been pretty darn good already, then producing a worthy successor will always present a degree of challenge. However, if the initial instalment in a franchise was chastised for a number...