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First impressions: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Posted by Lee On August - 16 - 2010 5 Comments
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Scott Pilgrim comes to PSN and XBox Live and Lee shares his initial impressions on the comic book/film game on the PS3…

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Red_Dead_Redemption

For a game that has gotten almost universal critical acclaim I’ve got to say that it hasn’t quite grabbed me like I hoped it would.  I mean the graphics are generally fantastic and the concept is great I’m just not getting into it. There are a couple of things I think that stand out as  [ Read More ]

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First impressions: Far Cry 2

Posted by Greg On August - 14 - 2010 1 Comment
Far Cry 2

As you would be well aware by now, Lee is a fan of Far Cry 2. As a result, I couldn’t resist giving it a go. Indeed, he had already sent it to me via our respective significant others before I had to ask. Ultimately, I think I am a little disappointed. Not a whole  [ Read More ]

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transformers

Greg starts playing the latest Transformers game and, as expected, it’s completely rubbi-… wait a minute! This is really fun!

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First impressions: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted by Greg On May - 13 - 2010 1 Comment

There’s something about the Final Fantasy series of games that has always interested me yet the gameplay does not always hold my interest for long enough. At times it can be repetitive or frustrating to the point where I don’t enjoy it any more. This was definitely the case when I gave some of the  [ Read More ]

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Uncharted 1 after Uncharted 2

Posted by Greg On May - 8 - 2010 0 Comment

I finally found it at a reasonable price, so I bought Uncharted. The catch, however, is that I already played and completed Uncharted 2 late last year. Considering the number of times Uncharted 2 was declared “Game Of The Year” for 2009, was I going to be disappointed by Uncharted? What must not be forgotten  [ Read More ]

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First Impressions: Street Fighter IV

Posted by Lee On May - 3 - 2010 7 Comments
Chun Li suggests that Ryu should probably cook his own dinner...

It’s been a long time since I visited the world of Street Fighter. Street Fighter 2 on the Super Nintendo actually.  Since then there have been a bunch of versions of SF2 and I imagine Street Fighter III though I don’t recall seeing anything about it.  But then I saw a demo of the current  [ Read More ]

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First impressions: God of War 3

Posted by Lee On April - 14 - 2010 2 Comments
godofwar3

The measure of a man is what he does with power… It’s been a while since I played the first two God of War games on the PS2.  I loved those games because they were so well put together, I liked characters and the action was great.  I didn’t bother picking up the God of  [ Read More ]

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Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

As I mentioned last week in the first Mashing Buttons podcast… What’s that? You haven’t listened to it yet!? You should go rectify that, all the cool kids are listening to it. …as I was saying I mentioned in the podcast that one of my favourite gaming genres right now is first person war/battle games  [ Read More ]

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PSWii Remote

Posted by Lee On March - 18 - 2010 0 Comment
It's the PSWii remote - chock full of pun goodness

I’ve been dying to use that play on words ever since I heard that Playstation was making a Wii Remote equivalent. So I obviously haven’t played with this yet but I figure I’m an authority enough after looking at the picture and skimming the basics of the article to comment.  I look at this picture  [ Read More ]

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