(I’m playing the xbox 360 version) Skyrim. All the critics love it, the games press went crazy for it. I’ve just taken a look on metacritic.com and the average critic score for this game – on the xbox 360 – is 96/100. 96 out of a hundred. Damn near perfect. And that’s based on 88 games [...]
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Demon’s Souls – PS3
Video games can’t be art. It’s a refrain that I hear from time to time from otherwise intelligent people, people who usually have very little knowledge or experience of what video games have to offer. It’s an opinion that makes no sense to me, as I don’t understand what it is about an interactive medium [...]
Posted by davidbarb on July 11, 2010
http://thelockedroom.com/2010/07/11/demons-souls-ps3/
Heavy Rain – PS3
Heavy Rain, the latest ‘game’ from David Cage and Quantic Dream, isn’t really a conventional video game at all. It dispenses with virtually all traditional gaming mechanics and instead aims to put the ‘player’ at the heart of a truly interactive drama. The story centres around a serial killer known as The Origami Killer, so [...]
Posted by davidbarb on March 3, 2010
http://thelockedroom.com/2010/03/03/heavy-rain-ps3/
Bioshock 2 – Xbox360
The following words are written about Bioshock 2′s single player campaign. The game also features an online multiplayer mode, but I haven’t tried it, so I can’t comment on it. Bioshock was a game that I loved, a true masterpiece in my opinion, but when I heard that a sequel was in development I felt [...]
Posted by davidbarb on February 13, 2010
http://thelockedroom.com/2010/02/13/bioshock-2-a-return-to-rapture/
First Impressions – Mass Effect 2
I wouldn’t normally write about a book, movie or game on here until I’ve completed it and can write about it in its entirety, but I am going to break with tradition and write briefly about the latest action RPG from Bioware, Mass Effect2. I’m about 10 hours into the game, which will probably turn [...]
Posted by davidbarb on February 2, 2010
http://thelockedroom.com/2010/02/02/first-impressions-mass-effect-2/
In praise of… Killer7
In the name of Harman… In the mood for some retro gaming thrills, I’m revisiting Killer 7 on the Gamecube. Written and directed by the ludicrously talented Suda51 for Grasshopper Manufacture, Killer7 is part FPS and part puzzle game. It is bursting with ideas and originality, and it is one of the trippiest, most surreal [...]
Posted by davidbarb on July 8, 2009
http://thelockedroom.com/2009/07/08/in-praise-of-killer7/
Fallout 3 (360)
When I first played through Fallout 3 I liked it. You could even say I liked it a lot. But I don’t think I loved it. I didn’t feel an emotional connection with it that would have marked it as one of my favourites. Well, I was wrong,wrong,wrong, because this game is a masterpiece and [...]
Posted by davidbarb on June 16, 2009
http://thelockedroom.com/2009/06/16/fallout-3-360/
inFAMOUS on PS3
I am growing weary of video game reviews. Why? Because they’re bullshit, that’s why. Well, mostly they are anyway. This is my problem: Most video games reviews are on a 10 or 100 point scale. Nothing wrong with that, not if the scale were used fully. But it rarely is. You rarely see a 4/10, [...]
Posted by davidbarb on June 10, 2009
http://thelockedroom.com/2009/06/10/video-game-reviews-suck/
