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I've always thought of Otep (and, to a lesser extent, Kittie) as pretty decent proponents of Slipknot-ish nu-metal. Operatic stuff isn't really my thing, but I caught a Nightwish set at Download last year and it was epic. If you're looking for female-fronted extreme metal that can stack up...

I'm 18, I live in Scotland and I regularly reflect on the sacrifices made for my right to live a free life. I have a scroll proudly displayed on my wall commemorating a member of my family who died in World War 2, and I will observe the silence on Friday, and more besides it. I'm glad to see so...

I hate to disagree with such a well-written article, but I just fundamentally didn't think as highly of Dead Island as you do. I found the characterisation pretty forced and unengaging, with everyone playing some sort of established stereotype (tough female cop with gun, big strong black guy...

I think that it basically depends on the genre or other mechanics of the game. Regenerating health makes for a more smooth-flowing experience, whereas non-regenerating makes a game feel harder and more tense. It depends on what atmosphere a game is trying to cultivate: should the player be...

I love the Hitman franchise to a fairly insane degree, but this is setting off quite a few alarm bells in my head. Provided I can still stealth through levels the way I could in the other games, I'll buy it. If it turns out they've dumbed it down or tacked on mandatory action sequences, I will...

I personally think that was a very funny and creative solution to the problem, but then again I do have an extremely twisted sense of humour. Nobody really got hurt (except for the guy that got bitten, which I'd argue actually makes him the victim here), but after the initial shock, I'm willing...

I'm considering getting it after Skyrim and the like, hopefully when the price goes down a little bit. I don't mind a game being more difficult than average, and for the most part it sounds like there's nothing in it I can't overcome with a bit of luck and a bit of grinding, but the thing that...

What a brilliantly written article. The standard of quality at The Escapist blows other gaming websites out of the water. Especially IGN. God, I hate IGN these days.

Based only on games I've actually played myself, it's a tie between Brink and Dead Island. They were both over-hyped to hell pre-release. Brink made a big thing out of customisation, but customising your appearance just makes it difficult for your team to be able to identify you at a glance...

Saint's Row 2 Dead Island Fallout: New Vegas Spiderman on the PS1.

Bought Dead Island. Played it sporadically for a week while not at college or anything. Spent a long time meticulously playing through the first act, liking the visceral first-person melee and interesting, beautiful locations of the resort. Reach Act 2. Get bogged down in generic ruined...

I'm a journalism student, so I'd probably end up working with the radio station or the library guys. Maybe as time goes on, I can find work as a gritty, hard-boiled post-apocalyptic private eye type. Then again, maybe I'll just go join the Legion and try to get into the Frumentarii. That would...

They might be a bit dated, but if you can get a copy of either Gex: Enter the Gecko or Gex: Deep Cover Gecko for the PS1 then you surely win at life.

New Vegas was a lot more polished. It had better mechanics across the board, but I felt it suffered in other areas for this. It may have had the iron sights and improved companion AI (and don't get me wrong, I loved these features), the story was pretty dire. For all we were promised that there...

Thrash metal, death metal and grindcore are my favourites, but I'll try everything once (except emo/pop punk etc). Inb4 "grind is punk derived, not metal", I'm counting it anyway. Add me, random metal gamers.