Recent content by Michael Brockbanks

The problem with doing a new generation for the franchise now is we're still coming off the hangover of episodes 1-3, which starred a different generation of characters, most of whom were incessantly bland, lost in a hodge-podge of glorified toy commercial, completely missing out on everything...

From what I've seen so far, the gaming industry, at least, seems to have a good handle on this. Ubisoft (oh ye purveyor of the egregious season-pass) came out immediately to say they would NOT be stopping ANYONE uploading their stuff to YouTube, be it reviews, let's plays or whatever. And why...

I'd personally argue that the winner of this generation is Microsoft. Not because of the Xbox One (I'm not a complete imbecile), but because of the number of people, including myself, choosing to forego this generation of consoles an join the PC brigade. Given that this is supposed to be a...

The one saving grace of this film is that it was so awful, when some near-unheard of director stepped forward with the wacky idea of starting the series all over again, WB said, 'Yeah, why not? It could hardly be any worse.' You want a cheap and cheerful Adam-West-style Batman film to lighten...

I have a select group of critics follow, not because they share my tastes/opinions/background/whatever, but because they entertain. Yahtzee, for example, is one of my favourite critics of *anything* and outside of disdain for generic war shooters, I rarely agree with him. It is, however...

I understand to a degree why publishers and manufacturers prefer to keep shtum until the official press-release: they've set a date for announcements, they don't want to show their hand too early and if the rumour-mill gives their impending product more time in the collective consciousness than...

I would LOVE to see Ten Nights of the Weed. Could have been a Troma classic!

I'm pretty sure Alucard wasn't hugged enough as a child... To be fair, I'm inclined to agree with RL's main point (which has admittedly been lost somewhat in accusation and hyperbole) that it seems any strong female protagonist has to be given some kind of backstory that starts her out as a...

To be fair, they seem to have blended the tutorial with the story's introduction before they let you loose on the island (which I understand is to be wide open for exploration), so I can personally forgive it for cutting to cinematics every minute or two during the demo. That said, some of...

Played it at the Eurogamer Xpo and I was underwhelmed. **In a nutshell, I found it clunky compared to previous games, and the atmos overly grim. What follows is me getting a little carried away with my rant...** I've been a fan of the series since the original. Admittedly, II was my...