“As of writing this review I have a level 53 Barbarian and I'm on Hell difficulty. It's taken us a decade to get here but we're all finally playing Diablo III! Has it lived up to the hype? Personally, I don't think it has but it is what it is, and to each their own. This is just my opinion, feel free to disagree. Overview The first playthrough was quite enjoyable and I didn't mind the story. I was definitely sucked in and was addicted, trying to get through the game. After D3 was released it was a long weekend for us so I got to spend the majority of 3 days going through it and finishing the game as well as trying out multiplayer and utilizing the Auction House. Story and Gameplay The story is a little bland and character development is only really limited to main characters, even then there's not a whole depth to backstory on them. You can pick up audio tomes throughout the game which adds lore about monsters, the environment, and story. These make for nice touches to the game and help make the world...”

“When a developer isn't content with current conventions, it's time for them to go against the grain. We haven't seen a rhythm game in quite a while (I'm on the fence with Child Of Eden, although that is a fantastic game regardless), and we all have Activision to thank for that, so.. hope you don't get too comfy with shooters getting released every ten seconds. Anyway, Sequence is what happens when you give a rhythm game some light RPG elements and... that's about it. It does have the potential to be a great game, but it always feels like it could be oh so much better with more content. In fact, that's what it lacks – content, like more than just the one element. It feels like half a game, really. Story: Ky wakes up inside a mysterious tower. An equally mysterious person known as Naia serves as his guide, as she guides him to the safe room and explains some fundamental things about the tower without getting into the juicy parts. Obviously, Ky wants out, so he has to get to the seventh floor and defeat...”

“Hands down, my favorite RPG of all time is The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall. I loved every minute of this game, even the parts that would annoy me in other games, mainly because what it does right, it does absolutely right, even if given the limitations of the PC in 1996, and especially since it has such a big world to explore. That's the beauty of this series – there's always so much to do with a lot of space to do it in, and I felt that Daggerfall capitalized on this concept the best. In short, I love this game. In fact, this review isn't as much of a review as it is my love letter to Bethesda for making this game, or at least to the boys and girls behind Daggerfall. After you've done creating your character (as in, naming your character, choosing your race, choosing your class and tweaking various base stats), you'll find that your character had been shipwrecked in the country of Daggerfall. After escaping from the dungeon, you'll find that there are two quests that you need to do – first, you need to...”

“Blade Kitten is a game about a kitten (well, catgirl) swinging a blade around while shooting out any number of humourous remarks. Apparently it's also based on a web comic of the same name, but I wouldn't know much about that. All I know is that I saw it on the Steam store and thought "do want". Visually the game mostly scores pretty well. The anime inspired style of the game works very well as the world of Blade Kitten is painted in cel shaded graphics, which also works well as a nice throwback to origins as a web comic. Character designs are very nice, although most of this attention is showered upon Kit herself, whose wild pink hair and wide selection of costumes makes her the most appealing character to the eye. Of course, the designers have taken care to ensure other individuals in the game universe fit in with their respective roles, like the military soldiers with suitably scifi armour and weapons. Of course, the levels look great too, as Kit ends up travelling through cities, sewers and...”

“NyxQuest was a bit of an impulse acquisition, where that accursed winter sale on Steam enticed me to obtain quite a number of games to add to an ever growing backlog. It's really the first proper platformer I've played on the PC though so I was eager to see what Over The Top Games could do with what was their first project. The game is rather loosely based on Greek mythology, where Nyx is some kind of heavenly angel/goddess who is good friends with Icarus (yes, the same guy who had that slight incident involving wings and the sun). However, one day Icarus goes missing and Nyx descends to Earth to find him, only to find the planet burning at the mercy of the titan Helios. Needless to say, I didn't actually care about the plot. What little exists is fed to you via some simple dialogue scenes as the gods speak to Nyx via disembodied voices and a few still image cutscenes that relate to certain events. Gripping fiction this is not. The sound fares no better. The almost ominous chanting of the gods as...”

“For a game that will only run you £5.99 (Or about 12 US dollars in the majority's case), Garry's Mod is one of the most popular Steam games, and the best sandbox game, ever to be created. The game recently scored 1.4 million copies sold, and trust me, I wouldn't think any game that's so cheap, money-wise, would sell that many. The main point of Garry's Mod is to build contraptions and make them work. These can range from cars to boats to trains to helicopters and a countless amount of things you can do. To build these you use props, simple models that were taken from existing games. Speaking of existing games, the other main idea is that you collect as many Valve games as you can so that you can use it's resources in the game. To start you off, you get quite a lot of stuff from Half Life 2, such as NPC's, weapons, models from the game and ragdolls. My personal favourite category is the HL2 Vehicles section, where you can spawn usually wrecked car bodies and try and bring them to life with the wheel tool...”

“Counter-Strike: Source is one of the most difficult online games I have ever played. I can come to a conclusion that it's the worst Valve game, personally. Gameplay Counter-Strike: Source is a remake of Counter-Strike, and consequently retains its team-based objective-oriented first-person shooter style gameplay. The aim of playing a map is to accomplish a map's objective. There are many types of objectives that a map can have, but the ultimate goal of the game is to win more rounds than the opposing team, which is accomplished by fulfilling the map's winning conditions. Some winning conditions include defusing a bomb, planting a bomb and preventing it from being defused by the other team, rescuing all the hostages on a map, preventing the hostages from being rescued, and defeat all the members of the opposing team. When playing on a server without modifications, if players are defeated during a round, they do not re-spawn until the next round, unlike in many other first-person shooter games, where...”

“Star Wars: Battlefront II was a highly anticipated sequel following the big splash the original made. Providing large-scale battles reliving everyone’s favourite conflicts and settings of the films, the Battlefront series offers up something different from the usual “here’s your super powerful character, now go save the galaxy” scenario. And this sequel offers two new elements that got all the fan kids and guys that still live with their mum in the basement squealing: space battles and the ability to use hero characters. Despite this, it does raise the question of whether the game can avoid the lure of being stale, with only two films of extra content between the two titles to add. The game controls as well as its predecessor, all running off your standard shooter layout. You get the pleasure of being able to switch between first- and third-person, depending on your playing preference. You can also issue commands to other troopers to great effect with some practice, such as stationing them in strategic...”