My name is Big Boss. It’s night time and I’m skulking through a village in Afghanistan occupied by Soviet forces. At least, I think I’m Big Boss. I’ve just come out of a 9-year coma and there were some strange things that went on at the hospital when I woke…
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April 30, 2017 at 12:00 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Big Boss, game review, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, MGS, Venom Snake
Note: I actually wrote this about three weeks ago, but through laziness it’s been sat in my draft pile for a while. I figure that October is a good month to publish an article about a game that concerns ghosts, possession and demons. I’m sat here watching Dan Bull’s rap…
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October 11, 2014 at 12:04 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: bitching about video games, Deadly Premonition, game review, Murdered: Soul Suspect
Disclaimer: this blog post assumes you have a modicum of knowledge about the Hitman series of games. If not, there’s not much point in reading further! I’ve also tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible. I’m well aware that it’s all too easy to use the internet to bitch…
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January 2, 2013 at 4:40 am | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Agent 47, bitching about video games, Hitman, Hitman: Absolution, Square-Enix
At the time of writing this, Metal Gear Solid 4 is just around the corner on the releases list. To commemorate the occasion and remind myself of the story, I thought that I would push my PS3 to its limits by playing an outdated game created back when high definition…
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April 22, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: game review, Metal Gear Solid, MGS, Solid Snake, The Twin Snakes
This game always struck me as a very odd concept. It appears that the creative company behind the hit Prince of Persia trilogy (Ubisoft) sat down one day and decided to create a Grand Theft Auto clone with PoP’s sensibilities and the political soapbox cyberpunk intrigue of the Metal Gear…
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January 9, 2008 at 10:49 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Altair, Assassin's Creed, game review
Right. FFX. *Rolls up sleeves* It’s been at least half a year since I touched it, and the next time I will shall probably be in about two years time when I forget why I had got bored of it. Final Fantasy 10 is a fantastic game, a deeply moving…
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April 14, 2006 at 11:06 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: bitching about video games, Brian Blessed, FFX, Final Fantasy, game review, RPG, Square-Enix
