Lord_Alan reviewed Mass Effect for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.5! Two years on from its release, the Xbox 360 is really beginning to hit its stride. Big titles that were announced in 2005 are finally being released and they don't come much...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Sonic Rush Adventure for the DS...
...and gave it a 8.0. Once upon a time, the only way to get a handheld Sonic fix was with the Sonic Advance series on the Game Boy. With their mediocre level design and bland gameplay, they were...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Rez HD for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 10.0!!! I loved the Sega Dreamcast, but apparently no-one else did, with the console being withdrawn after only a couple of years on the market. This may explain why its 2001 swan...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed N+ for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 8.5. Hi kids, Big Bird from Sesame Street here! This week's review is brought to you by the letter N- well, N+ actually, the latest obscure title to make it to Xbox Live Arcade. N is...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Lost: Via Domus for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 7.0. Lost is a divisive TV series if ever there was one. You've either been glued to your screen since the first episode, or thought it was pretentious rubbish. It's lucky that I fit...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.0! It's two in the morning. You will be getting up in four hours to get ready for work. You're hunched over a controller shooting streams of bullets at nondescript, faceless enemies...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed The Ninja for the Sega Master System...
...and gave it a 1.0. The Ninja hails back from 1986, the year I was born. Back in those days, games didn't have things like polygons, bump-mapping, animation, or gameplay. In the Ninja you play the...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the GameGear...
...and gave it a 1.5. Based on the smash-hit film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a rip-roaring adventure that'll take Indy across the globe in search of the greatest treasure of them all- the...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the...
...and gave it a 8.0. There are two kinds of man in this world: those that look good with a moustache, and those that don't. Luckily elder statesman of gaming Solid Snake has joined the ranks of...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Spore for the PC...
...and gave it a 9.0! Drop the words 'evolution' or 'creationism' into a conversation and depending on the audience, there's a good chance that sparks and Bibles may fly. For a game that allegedly...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Fable II for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.5! Do you remember when games were easy to play? I had lots of fun playing Sonic with my Dad when I was five. Nowadays if I handed him a copy of Oblivion it would be like giving him...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Sonic Unleashed for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 4.0. Dear Sonic, We've been together for a long time now, but lately I feel like you've changed and you're no longer the same hedgehog I fell in love with all those years ago. We've...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Braid for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.0! Time. It is fleeting, it heals all wounds, it is either on your side or against you. Whatever the case we are a people obsessed with something we don't even fully understand, a...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Prince of Persia for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 8.0. The current vogue among game developers is to resurrect old franchises with a shiny lick of high-definition paint. Some are successful like Tomb Raider and Fallout, while the...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Chrono Trigger for the DS...
...and gave it a 9.0! Once upon a time, there was a game developer called Square Enix. After several years of inventing and refining the concept of the role-playing game with their Final Fantasy...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Street Fighter IV for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.0! There is an intrinsic quality of Street Fighter that accounts for its continuing popularity: beating the crap out of people is fun (in a game!), doubly so if it's your boastful...
View ArticleLord_Alan reviewed Shadow Complex for the Xbox 360...
...and gave it a 9.0! Someone needs to fire the architect behind the Shadow Complex. There are unsecured man-sized air vents everywhere, purple security doors easily disabled by a purple foam gun and...
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