Tag Archives: Gaming

Jan
02
2009

Games of 2008: Metal Gear Solid 4

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a strange game to discuss. As a long-time fan of the series it is both a superb gaming experience and an absolutely infuriating one. The game presents itself to players as being almost two separate entities: the one the player is engaged in and the one that Hideo Kojima wants [...]

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Dec
30
2008

Games of 2008: Far Cry 2

Shortly after I started my first game of Far Cry 2, I was treated to an on-rails taxi ride where my driver pointed out some of the unique sites of Africa. There are groups of civilians wandering in hope of escape from their country, varied wildlife, the spreading of a flash fire spreading from a [...]

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Dec
20
2008

Games of 2008: Introduction

It’s been a superb year for gamers. There have been such a vast number quality major releases across any number of genres that the idea of a given gamer feeling “left out” is near unthinkable. The major, well-received releases can be categorized as a 4X RTS or simply a great 4X turn-based game. There are [...]

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Dec
18
2008

The Game Review Symposium: Review Scores

The first part of the game review symposium is now up and covers the topic of the scores attached to game reviews. You can find it here: http://shawnelliott.blogspot.com/2008/12/symposium-part-one-review-scores.html.
If there was any doubt about the usefulness of the symposium before I think the responses to this first part alone should quiet those — though I’d be [...]

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Dec
12
2008

The Game Review Symposium

Before he left his post at Ziff-Davis’ gaming publications (namely Games for Windows Magazine followed by EGM/1Up) Shawn Elliott was one of the best journalists in the game industry. His works at GfW Magazine were always some of the most well-articulated and reasoned pieces to be found in the industry. Elliott’s “claim to fame” in [...]

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Dec
05
2008

The Death of the Death of Game Criticism

Supposedly, there’s a problem with game journalism (part one). It’s worth pointing out that if you have an article entitled “The Problem with Games Journalism,” then the tagline of your site best not be “Independent game journalism.”
Yesterday, Kotaku published a piece by the site’s Managing Editor, Brian Crecente which is entitled: “Death of Criticism: The [...]

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Dec
04
2008

Control Freak

There was a review of Dead Space back in the “Holiday 2008″ issue of PC Gamer that gave the game a very respectable 81%. The review ended with a paragraph devoted to discussing issues with mouse lag in the game:
“[Dead Space] would have been a much more compelling horror game if not for the bizarrely [...]

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