Category Archives: fps

Borderlands: Genre Pollution

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

With Borderlands, a game described as a “role-playing shooter”, developers Gearbox hope to capture the audience that spends many sleepless nights wandering through forgotten strongholds while pillaging corpses and undefended treasure chests. They want to make the grind of the … Continue reading →

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Gaming Made Me, Part 2: Critical Mass

Posted on August 7, 2009 by

This is the second part of a two-part series. Read “Part 1: Discovery” I started thinking about writing full length reviews of video games in late 2001. I was still at University. I was going to make a website and … Continue reading →

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sinking creativity to new depths

Posted on May 15, 2009 by

Now that proper BioShock 2 video previews are circulating instead of scanned magazine covers and wild fan speculation, I can’t help but feel like the gaming public is being duped and they don’t even realize it. Or maybe they don’t … Continue reading →

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your cover has just been destroyed. now what?

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

When Red Faction: Guerrilla‘s friendly tooltip “Hit LB while near a wall or an obstacle to take cover” popped onto the screen, my eyes were rolling to the back of my head in pre-emptive disinterest. But I played through the … Continue reading →

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F.E.A.R. 2: in which you see ghosts and fire a gun and wear power armor

Posted on February 18, 2009 by

The demo for F.E.A.R. 2 has two themes running through it that are clearly at odds with one another, and they do a fine job of convoluting the game’s purpose. On the one hand, the introductory mission of F.E.A.R. 2 … Continue reading →

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dead air

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

When I saw the name of this mission in Left 4 Dead, my thoughts turned to a last stand at an abandoned small town radio station, where the four Survivors must send out a distress call to anyone who would … Continue reading →

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Playing catch-up on the XBox 360

Posted on December 30, 2008 by

I took advantage of the Boxing Day shopping frenzy over the weekend and picked up an XBox 360 Pro Holiday Bundle at a discount that was hard to ignore. This is a purchase I had been deeply considering since my … Continue reading →

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Some Deep Thinking on BioShock

Posted on December 23, 2008 by

Beneath the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, there is a hidden metropolis established by a megalomaniac tired of dealing with the confines imposed on him by the modern world. In the wake of a civil war that tore this city … Continue reading →

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no one left behind

Posted on November 26, 2008 by

Last night I played through the “Death Toll” campaign in Left 4 Dead with my game group. Which, to avoid sounding like I have a surplus of friends who play games is really just me and a good friend of … Continue reading →

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Left 4 Dead impressions

Posted on November 12, 2008 by

Updated November 14, 2008 Left 4 Dead goes out of its way to create an interactive horror movie. The movie poster introducing the upcoming mission, the four horror movie archetypes forming the group of survivors, a city overrun with Infected … Continue reading →

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