Recent content by rjwtaylor [deprecated]

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    The Mother of Reinvention

    Speaking of Tomb Raider making a bit of a late comeback with Legend, next on the menu is Anniversary - the first game with Legend's new tricks. Seems like they're pretty determined to drive the franchise back into the ground already. Same goes for another Perfect Dark prequel apparently in the...
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    Guns. Not So Many Guns.

    I agree with the sentiments of the article, but if a game is going to give you control over your actions and not go into cut-scene mode every time a sinister antagonist crosses the screen 9/10 a gameplayers reaction would be to whip out the pistol and blow the sucker to kingdom come. If we're...
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    Reward Card

    I enjoy the competitive side of Gamerscore amongst friends. Where a few of us have all downloaded Contra, for example, we are all trying to get an achievement that none of the others have for bragging rights. If I log on and see that one of them has just one-credited the first level, for...
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    Reward Card

    It doesn't appeal to everyone, but Gamerscore is one of the 360's neat little "carrots" to drive you to play a game more - or even buy games you wouldn't have thought of buying before. When it's implemented well it's a blast, giving left of field challenges that you would never have...
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    Revenge of the Nerds

    Good article, reminded me of my four years at university. I was really paranoid about being seen as a gamer geek in the first year and tried to fit in, but ended up pretty miserable as I wasn't getting involved in the things I loved. By the start of the second year I couldn't pretend to be...
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    Gaming Methadonia

    Sure glad things cost less back when a new Megadrive game was £50! I had a look at my gaming habits around august last year and tried to pin down why I wasn't getting so much fun out of the games I was buying, and why so many of them were lodged somewhere on a shelf gathering dust. In the...