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Shellshock 2 (360)

Written March 2009 for http://www.xboxgamezone.co.uk Worst game I have played yet, I hope I don’t come across worse anytime soon! Every once in a while, it feels like a game comes along to test my patience, to test my stubbornness, hell even to test my blood pressure, it’s there just to push me that little [...]

Lord of the Rings Conquest (360)

Written for http://www.xboxgamezone.co.uk March 2009 Everyone loves Lord of the Rings, don’t they? Well, actually, I don’t. I quite liked the books, but I wasn’t fussed with the films at all which is a bit of a surprise considering my love for all things dwarfy and elfish. Arguably this puts me at an immediate disadvantage [...]

Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (360)

Written for http://www.xboxgamezone.co.uk February 2009 Back in the late 1990s, when the Playstation 1 ruled the roost and the idea of a Microsoft console was a pipedream, there were two indominatable forces when it came to likeable platformer characters: Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. They weren’t quite up there with the likes of Mario [...]

Interview with Capcom’s Ben LeRougetel on Resident Evil 5

Featured on http://www.xboxgamezone.co.uk Q. Previous Resident Evil titles have seen the player working very much alone. What made you decide to move to a full co-operative experience this time? A: Action titles nowadays, really the expectations are that they offer co-operative play. Obviously Xbox provides Xbox Live; it’s easier to deliver a co-op experience. It’s [...]

Resident Evil 5 Hands On

Featured on http://www.xboxgamezone.co.uk As a slightly superstitious sort I never expect anything good to ever happen on Friday the 13th. However that was all to change when kleaneasy and I were invited along to check out the latest installment of the critically acclaimed Resident Evil series at Capcom’s London Headquarters. We were given access to [...]