Recent content by Genjutsushi

I totally agree. Why create an intense single player story mode game that is unrelated to the multiplayer? The single player was about tactics and accuracy... the multi is a run and gun frag fest - Counterstrike any one?

Ellen Ripley was a Flight Lieutenant in the space equivalent of the Merchant Navy. In that sense she IS a Lieutenant but not in a military force. When she travels on the Sulako with the Space Marines she is working for Weyland Yutani Coporation as a consultant to the Space Marines who are...

Bottom line in the UK is that most games are multi format releases across both the 360 and the PS3 with very few exclusives in either camp. The Wii is on its own as a casual machine. So when making my console choice it was simple: The 360 was cheaper for the hardware, and the games are cheaper...

I reckon this could be a sneaky ploy by Joe to join Coldplay... The youtube vid is right. Sounds best mixed together!

20 hours trying (successfully) to get our International Drivers Licence on Gran Tourismo 1 on the playstation. My basement lounge had slugs and i twice found the little blighters crawling on my leg while i played... dont regret it, but it was pretty gross!

I'm more of a FPS kind of guy, but my two gems are both racers as these are massively underrepresented on these threads - every one always talks about the wierd platformers that sold 12 copies in Korea in 1995... and Psychonauts. Boxster Challenge on the Playstation 1. Fantastic weighty...

Rainbow 6 Vegas was a terrific visceral thrill. Sure its not a tactical shooter in the accepted PC player sense, but for a console game, its pretty deep. The method of controlling the friendlies is massively improved over the previous game making tactical maneuvers and flanking quick and easy...

Good article and a fine summary of the issue. My take on the issue is that Games appear to be more all consuming than say, film, as they are longer. If you had a film that was really good, and lasted 20 hours, wouldnt you want to spend as much time as possible focused on completing it?