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Posts Tagged ‘ps3’

WipEout AD

I just downright love WipEout HD. Yet, it suffered some serious neglect after other games were released right after its launch last year. Small wonder then, that when the Fury expansion was announced, I used it a springboard to return to its clean utopian anti-gravity racing tracks. There are multiple reasons why I like the game and oddly [...]

Trashy Physics

Generally speaking, I don’t like physics in games. So in a way, I don’t likeTrash Panic. This downloadable PlayStation Network puzzle game for PS3 has a great concept: efficiently arrange random pieces of trash in a trash bin by destroying stuff. The most used technique to do this, will be to break your pieces of trash [...]

InFamous Urban Exploration

While everybody seems to be focused on the differences betweenPrototype and inFamous, I found myself curiously forgetting about the entire comparison as I was playing the latter. It’s not that inFamous is perfect, but for me it comes awfully close. Why? Because it is truly an ‘open’ world. This sounds a bit weird of course. Ever since Shenmue started [...]

When Easy Is Not Easy Enough

“Should you be bombarded with one-hit-kills when you are playing a game on Easy?” That, in short, is the main question that got stuck in my head during the credits after my second playthrough ofUncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Naughty Dog, 2007; PS3). I set the difficulty to Easy, as I already completed it once on Normal [...]

Hard Death

It has been ages since I have completed an 8-bit Mega Man title, so the release of Capcom’s Mega Man 9 has been nothing short of a blessing to me personally. Now the first thing people will tell you about the game is that it is hard. Not just hard, but rather the stuff of legends: “So [...]

Much Ado About Accepted Controls

This article was previously published in Dutch at games blog Bashers. What follows is the English translation and edited version of said article. How you control a game defines the entire experience. Control is the only thing you can rely upon with the game world, so it would be rather efficient if the controls matched your [...]

PixelJunk Eden, Controls From Hell?

For some reason PixelJunk Eden (PS3) is causing a whole set of different reactions than I expected. Personally I love the game, though I did reminisce a bit about its controls on Bashers (NL). The weird thing seems to be that a lot of players in my gaming sphere not only think the controls are weird (they [...]