By Duncan Voice
This review actually began life as a comparison piece between Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. After getting to polishing off point though, I soon realised that BC2 is so awesome, it deserves it’s very own arrangement of words. Plus I have strong feelings of aversion toward Bobby Kotick and his merry band of minions at Activision, and such feelings were painfully obvious.
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By Joseph Viney
War is hell, as they say. As time progresses and military technology becomes sharper and more devastating the chances of getting equal footing on an already rocky battleground are receding further and further away.
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By Marty Mulrooney
Steve Ince is that rare breed of game designer that embraces the gaming community wholeheartedly. He has been involved in the creation of some of the biggest adventure games of all time, including Beneath A Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series. Over the years, I have seen him chatting with gamers in various forums, discussing not only his own work but other games within the adventure genre as well. He is as much a fan as a creator and this enthusiasm always shines through.
Nothing has ever been quite as surreal as popping Broken Sword: The Director’s Cut into my Wii a few months ago whilst twittering with Steve about the series: like many of the old Revolution Software crowd, Mr Ince is always a pleasure to talk to. Hopefully, I can now pass this pleasure onto Alternative Magazine Online’s readers as well. Without further ado, I am delighted to present a recent conversation between myself and Mr Steve Ince…
Filed under Alternative Musings, Games
By Marty Mulrooney
Those who know me well will attest to the following: I am a big wuss when it comes to scary films and video games. Which is actually quite odd, as I was reading Stephen King’s The Shining at age 10 without even thinking twice. I love horror novels, but scary games are often played for a while and then left on a shelf gathering dust where they can’t hurt me. Yet having recently bitten the horror gaming bullet by playing both Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 on PS3 despite my low scare threshold, I decided Silent Hill: Shattered Memories would be my next tentative step into the world of interactive horror…
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