#oneaday Retro Review: Incredible Crisis

Thank heavens for wierdo Japanese videogames, and as far as wierd Japanese games being released in the West go, there aren’t many as odd as 2000′s Incredible Crisis. Essentially a collection of mini-games, Incredible Crisis tells the story of a families attempts to make it to their grandmother’s birthday party without allowing her to realise [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Re-Volt

I was going to cover Bizarre creations’ Fur Fighters this week, but I was unable to give it the time it deserved due to decided to have a “quick blast” on this game. I’ll try and get Fur Fighters done for next Sunday. Anyway, yeah, its another racing game, this time its Re-Volt a game [...]

#oneaday Frustrated movie directors operating as videogame designers.

I’m openly critical of video game developers apparent need to justify the existence of  their latest title by making the “experience” “cinematic”. I often feel that developers tend to over really on what they deem as “cinematic” experiences or use cut-scenes far too often. Both of these issues are seemingly left overs from the PlayStation [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Metal Gear Solid

I usually try and do one of these each weekend for bitparade.co.uk, doesn’t always happen though, but this week I’ve managed it and as you can see, have been covering Metal Gear Solid.   It says alot about a particular franchise that its fans can overlook the fact each instalment has become more and more [...]

#oneaday The all new, sparkly, re-re-released, re-masted, best ever, I can’t believe its not butter, 30% more release

There’s always been a trend in entertainment media to re-release things. Films get re-released all the time, either because of format changes or because the director has decided to take another stab at it (see Blade Runner and Star Wars). However its the Game re-release that gets my goat. I don’t mind the one-off designed [...]