I can’t really remember how I first heard about Age of Heroes. I’m pretty sure it was on Twitter. After a little research I learnt that it was a new WW2 film starting Danny Dyer and Sean Bean and based (loosely) around the exploits of 30AU Commando, a British special forces team forced by none [...]
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Far Cry 2 – packed full of gaming innovations…
Posted: 6th June 2011 by Age in ReviewsTags: Far Cry 2, fun, Gun jamming, guns, vehicles
I don’t think it’s going too far to say Far Cry 2 is one of the best games I’ve ever played. Yet apart from a few good reviews around the time of release, there wasn’t much of a fuss made over it. Which seems bizarre to me. A few friends have murmured some annoyances with [...]
LA Noire – talking heads and gunplay
Posted: 27th May 2011 by Age in ReviewsTags: faces, gta, LA Noire, people, places
There’s been plenty of hype and chatter around the new Rockstar game LA Noire in recent weeks. The critics gave it rave reviews and thoroughly good reports all round and you can easily see why. However, I’m not jumping on the “LA Noire is amazing” bandwagon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad game, [...]
BRINK – it’s not just fancy hats and parkour
Posted: 15th May 2011 by Age in ReviewsTags: BRINK, fun, objectives, team game
BRINK was released on Friday. I was so enthusiastic about its release that I stayed up until 3 am, just to wait for the launch and get a taste of the action. Up again at 8am, I dashed to the PC to get back to the action. That’s the short story, over the last 3 [...]
Been wanting to see this film for a while now, ever since I saw the trailer at the cinema. Alas, I’m too poor to visit the cinema as much as I’d like, but luckily there is the joy of Sky box office and PSN. So we downloaded and watched it. I wasn’t disappointed. George Clooney [...]
Back to the Future – The Game (It’s a giggle)
Posted: 11th March 2011 by Age in Interesting Discoveries, ReviewsTags: Back to the Future
Yesterday I downloaded “Back to the Future – The Game” demo on the Playstation Network. As an 80′s child, I was excited to see what the game had to offer. I wasn’t disappointed. Back to the Future – The Game, is built by Telltale games, the same fellows who made the truly awesome Monkey [...]
The Expendables – it is full of “hunks”
Posted: 24th January 2011 by Age in ReviewsTags: The Expendables
One of my crimbo presents included “The Expendables” on bluray. If you don’t know already, The Expendables is a new film, directed and produced by Sylvester Stallone and stars most of the old school action heroes – Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Ludgrin, Jet Li etc, oh, and Jason Statham. The main problem with The [...]
When vampires stop sucking
Posted: 18th January 2011 by Age in Ramblings, ReviewsTags: paradox, vampire films
Vampire films (and the mythology in general) is seriously flawed. Unless you twist the legend to fit your own fiction (as many do), if a vampire bites you and sucks your blood, you’re doomed to become one yourself. This of course eventually leads to the problem that at some point everyone will be a vampire [...]
A good friend bought me Mafia II as a surprise gift the other week when it was a mere £5 on Steam. It was certainly a welcome treat. I had played the demo and was honestly underwhelmed by it. Mediocre at best. Which was rather a shame because I had high-hopes after hearing various pre-launch [...]
Watchmen is another in a long-line of films derived from comic books, but this isn’t another Iron Man or Hulk, Watchmen is far more similar to Frank Miller’s Sin City. Yes, Watchmen is gritty and unexpected. I didn’t read the comic, so I didn’t know what to expect and I’m sure fanboys would bemoan its [...]