Guest reviewer Grant Cheetham returns to State of Play bringing us the up to speed with Ubisoft’s side-scrolling motorcycle stunt game.
Enjoy.
Trials Evolution : Gold Edition brings the highly popular 2012 Xbox Live Arcade Trials Evolution along with the previous entry, Trials HD, to PC. Developed by RedLynx, this 2.5D platform racing game bring to the market much of what is missing from many AAA titles today, a simple and fun challenging experience. The game excels at what it is, but some aspects still fall short of what it could be. Continue reading Trials Evolution: Gold Edition PC review→
According to DONTNOD, the French developer of Capcom’s Remember Me, in the future memories will be recorded. Once upon a time, such a concept would once have been exclusively in the realms of high-brow science fiction. But in a world where everybody carries a camera phone and most of us are always connected via the internet, it is only a matter of time before someone merges the technological hardware with our wetware.
Remember Me is set in the Neo-Paris of 2084. It’s a futuristic setting in a city that combines the old-world of the French capital (watch out for the Eiffel Tower), with a Blade Runner-ish dystopian look; but with less rain and more blue sky. Continue reading Remember Me Xbox 360 review→
I’ve just read through the first twelve issues of The Massive from Dark Horse Comics. I picked them up on a whim, the post-apocalyptic adventure-at-sea premise pressing all the right button for me.
The book began as a three-part series in the pages of Dark Horse Presents, a book whose alumni inclused Frank Millar’s Sin City. Basically the world has gone to shit, with literally every type of environmental cataclysm occurring simultaneously; like the Earth just put its foot down and said enough is enough. Continue reading Comic-book review: The Massive→
Microsoft’s controversial move towards an internet controlled, digital-based DRM afflicted games marketplace has cause some debate here at Vicbstard.com.
For over a week Grant and myself have been debating the merits and pitfalls of Microsoft’s Xbox One strategy. Whilst I must profess to being rather the fan of Microsoft’s consoles, my Xbox One pre-order being already in the bag, I don’t quite share Grant’s optimism for an always on digital future.
I’ve already had a sneak peek at FIFA 14, but as you’d expect the rest of EA’s slate for the year ahead looks equally amazing. There’s a few surprises as well, like Mirrors Edge and Command & Conquer.
Check below for the E3 trailers for EA’s upcoming releases, as kindly supplied to me by my good friends at EA Australia. Enjoy!
This is the first E3 that I’ve not actually followed ‘as it happened’. With the launch of two consoles and the amount of media coverage I wasn’t missing out by not staying up all night to watch a few glitzy presentations. Besides, my Twitter feed was full of media peeps all tweeting exactly the same thing.
Bloody hell. My mail box is full of press releases. Whats going on? E3, that’s what.
I’ve not had the chance to look at any of the E3 stuff myself, to I can’t tell you anything. What I can do, however, is spam this post with some of today’s unedited press releases (with my bad formatting). Here goes! Continue reading Monday E3 press release round up: spam post→
According to DONTNOD, the French developer of Capcom’s Remember Me, in the future memories will be recorded. Once upon a time, such a concept would once have been exclusively in the realms of high-brow science fiction. But in a world where everybody carries a camera phone and most of us are always connected via the internet, it is only a matter of time before someone merges the technological hardware with our wetware.
