Recent content by jez29

Here's hoping that 2:41 - 3:00 is his first line after his first trip in the Tardis. "Doctor, what just happened?" "WE'VE FUCKING TIME-TRAVELLED, YES?" Davina McCall as pope, downloadable rice and robots (preferably Daleks) sounds like a hell of an episode.

My favourite episode of the series so far. I think Vastra, Jenny and Strax might be the best running characters, companions aside, that new Who has introduced. And Strax actually got to shoot stuff in this episode! One for fans of old Who: was that a 'Time-Flight was rubbish' joke I heard...

I write reviews and features for a small games website. It's not my job, I started it as a student and I still do it voluntarily as does the whole team, but I do hope that in the future it might lead to something more concrete. I happened to get the review of ME3, and whilst I didn't have...

Thirded. Or fourthed. Anyway, Kreia is excellent, just as KotOR 2 is excellent. The first one is a big old adventure in the style that Bioware do so well, but Obsidian are way ahead of them when it comes to inventive stories and characters (just not QA, unfortunately). Star Wars is almost...

My thoughts exactly, as far as I can see this is Mount and Blade with perks - which is no bad thing. Looking forward to Mount and Blade 2 far more though, since we know that Taleworlds can deliver the goods.

Down in the Bonehoard, that's the one. The levels were disappointingly small in Thief 3 and I can see the appeal in really mastering the geography of a level like the Bonehoard, but I think I'm too used to more recent level design and graphics to properly get to grips with the bigger levels of...

I might have seen that article, PC Gamer if I remember. They might have been obsessed but it definitely paid off in this case! I played Thief 3 first so I've got a bit more time for it than others, but I don't necessarily admire 1 & 2 so much. Some of the levels are great, like the Mechanist...

Purely in narrative terms Oblivion's main quest was just fine. Standard save the world stuff with a few nice locations and set pieces. The main problem with it was it clashed horribly with the whole ethos behind a Bethesda open-world game. A storyline where the main threat is presented as an...

Cash-in is definitely harsh, but I can certainly see what you're getting at, the first two games have a bit more freedom and the levels are much more expansive. But when it comes to tone I think Thief 3 got things spot on, through the story, art design, lighting and sound. And the...

I may not have played Amnesia, Silent Hill or (gasp!) Minecraft, but this is absolutely the winner for me. I had to turn this level off and only came back to Deadly Shadows two months later. Going up the stairs to the attic is just so tense, particularly when you get this close. Horrifyingly...

I'd agree with that. Moffat's first series was pretty much everything I hoped it would be (the set-up for the Doctor and Amy in The Eleventh Hour is easily my favourite introduction of a new companion), whereas in this one I haven't been so impressed. There have been some great ideas, but it's...

Seconded. On the gameplay side neither of them are without their problems, but in terms of telling stories about character rather than about 'saving the world', there are few better games than these two. Playing Neverwinter Nights 2 is helpful to understanding Mask and I'd certainly recommend...

1789-1815. Start with the French Revolution and run all the way through the Napoleonic Wars. It has everything: Ubisoft could take in Paris, London, Vienna and Moscow; famous historical figures are there in abundance (from military leaders like Wellington and Napoleon, to poets such as Byron...

I first posted these thoughts only Portal 2 elsewhere, but I thought I'd bring it here to you good people as well. Just to make it clear, this is not a review as such (I already do those at another site, sorry...) but a collection of extra, certainly more subjective thoughts about the game...

Having played a preview build of this myself, I'm sitting on the fence regarding the guns. It's not due to mechanics: in single player I thought they struck a great balance between power and accuracy and they certainly won't stop bows from being important, but I'm concerned that in multiplayer...