Warning! This post contains spoilers about Alice: Madness Returns.

So, I pre-ordered Alice: Madness Returns for the PS3 a little while ago, and was really looking forward to it. I had played the original American Mcgee’s Alice, and while I only have vague recollections of it, I at least remember enjoying it. So, the game has been out a little while now, I finished the whole thing and it’s finally time I got around to writing down my thoughts on it.

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The first part of the game is a big one and quite a disappointment to be honest. Starting up the game I go for Story Mode straight away, it seems to me at least that’s where you’d start. Unfortunately Story Mode is just not the best representation of the game. The difficulty quickly moves from doable to ‘oh god, my fingers’ and it just isn’t fun. Now, hardcore fighting game fans (and some of them are probably morons) probably like this, it makes it hard enough for them. But plenty of people aren’t these kind of fans. Read More

It always terrifies me that (I’m going to be mean and say supposed) ‘supposed’ (in scare quotes and everything!) highly regarded review websites write reviews with such obvious bias. ‘But…’ I hear you say ‘the bias can’t be that bad, can it?’

Well, for example when you put two long running game series together – in this case we’ll say Dynasty Warriors and Pokemon. A lot of big review websites describe these games in pretty much the same way – that they haven’t changed at all (despite the fact that they have, but we’ll get to that). But apparently because most of them watched Pokemon when they  were kids this makes it okay and it get a high scores. Dynasty Warriors on the other hand is slated for not ‘innovating’ (again, in scare quotes! I’ll explain why in a bit too). Read More

So, we bought Dynasty Warriors 7 a couple of days after release after seeing a friend’s (this friend) copy. We bought it from Amazon for about 35 pounds, instead of the ridiculous 45 pound price in Game.

So how is it?

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It’s crafty fabric cute vs. crafty fabric cute. But do they score well where it really matters? On charm? General good game design? Multiplayer? Longevity? Cost?

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…or alternatively “Dead Space 2 – and how the game news media proves it’s really not worth reading by putting out the same reviews (for crap games) as each other.”

Despite having played Dead Space 1 and having very little positive to say about it, I’m determined to remain optimistic and keep trying horror games when they come out (or I’m determined to keep being conned out of my money, which ever way you see it). I am also determined (mostly – with some encouragement from Peter Reviews) to finish a game when I start it to be able to give a full opinion on it.

So, what’s my opinion? In short, it’s a pile of crap. But the short version doesn’t really explain why or really do its absolute crap-ness justice, so I’ll continue. Read More