The damsel in distress thing doesn't work on the whole in games as we usually play the hero
Some gamers could empty a swimming pool filled with cola in less than half an hour
There were no real surprises and no delicious lemons; it was just so massively meh-inducing.
Another round of wrestling with the Sims 3 launcher had me spitting venom recently; just the sheer number of hours that I have spent just trying to patch the game and trawling the internet to see if anyone shares my woes is ridiculous. Given the time that has elapsed since I last tried to patch the game and get the launcher to do its job, or else install the patches…
So it’s been in the news recently that the BBC want to create videogames based on their existing TV franchises. I’m going to come out on a limb and tell you that all of the games are going to be terrible. In the most likely circumstances, they’ll sell well, but be terrible overall, and at best will just be ripoffs of games currently in the market. Now, I’m not entirely…
Being a long-time PC gamer, I’ve played my share of PC games in the past, and then some. By far the biggest collection of PC games I own are “point and clicks”, which to the uninitiated involve walking around, picking stuff up, solving puzzles, MacGyvering stuff together, and chatting people up (Well, interrogating them really). So I’m here to share my love of this overlooked little genre.
“The Secret Of…
With the release of Sims 3 last June, EA delivered a revamped, gorgeous, if somewhat empty feeling Threequel to their obscenely popular franchise and sales, predictably, went through the roof. Close to one and a half million units sold in the first week of release alone and the game dominated PC sales charts in 2009; it has been riding consistently high in many territories ever since.
As a long time…
Us gamers have a vast knowledge of what to do when the earth is in danger – whether it’s an alien invasion, an airborne Zombie Virus or a nuclear holocaust, we have the gaming knowledge to keep our virtual selves alive in desperate times. But what if one day a virus does break out, turning the whole world into zombies? Or nuclear war does hit, taking the all the world’s…
