tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33613603424663577482011-07-29T02:05:32.072+01:00Even more gaming and technology goodness than we could fit into our diverse little student magazine.Platformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418640704995552483noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361360342466357748.post-13610736500541810252009-11-11T12:00:00.003Z2009-11-11T12:00:07.090Z

Hi there,We've moved.Platform Online - www.platform-online.net.

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Network Central: PSN, Xbox Live, WiiWare - download deals, new online releases and monthly hot picks direct to your vidscreenThe inevitable video game drought has come once again. The big spring titles are out of the way and now begins the long run up to the holiday season. Luckily enough though digital downloads are here to save the day. Forget disks and boxes, this is the future, granddad.

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Borrowing from open world trailblazers, is this the new gold standard, or still a work in progress?You are Alex Mercer in a city overrun with disgusting mutants and angry military types, all out to get you. But it’s OK, because Alex Mercer is “a walking slaughterhouse”, in the words of the developers at Radical, the team behind the new open world, superhero game, Prototype. Well, I say ‘superhero

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They’re back to clean up the townWhen one of the most beloved comedy films of the 1980s, Ghostbusters, was announced to be getting a game adaption, excitement and much baited breath followed. After all, people been subjected to more than their fair share of terrible movie licensed games. Ghostbusters: The Video Game has rolled into town, and you know what? It’s actually more than half-decent.From

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“Guys, guys. Can’t we settle this with words?”Since the days of great Gladiatorial spectacles, and perhaps even before then, we humans have relished a bit of old fashioned one-on-one violence. Boxing, martial arts, wrestling, schoolyard fights on the muddy pitch - you name it, people watch it. With the exception of the last one, most of these are considered actual sports. Well, there are contact

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Platform Gaming signs-off, concluding a superb year of video games coverage A lot has changed since the beginning of this university year. Platform has grown leaps and bounds in the past year and so has its gaming section. We’ve reported on Nottingham’s biggest games event of the year, GameCity, we’ve interviewed developers and PRs behind some of the biggest games, and we’ve reviewed a truck load

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What do you get with 50,000 volts, some moral choices and a smattering of comic book appeal?inFamous is the first PS3 game from Sucker Punch, the developers of the Sly Cooper games back on the PS2. It places you as Cole MacGrath, an everyday delivery boy, in Empire City, until a huge explosion devastates the city and mysteriously gifts you with extraordinary powers, namely, the ability to

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Gaming’s biggest tradeshow is set to return to its true coloursIf you’ve ever read a video games website or magazine during the summer months chances are you may have heard of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, as it’s more commonly known. Opened in 1995, E3 has become the biggest games-focused tradeshow worldwide. For the majority, this annual event has been held at the gigantic Los

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The gloves are off and the claws are outSlated and hyped by developers Raven as the game that would change it all, finally changing the preconception that any game based on a movie is frankly rubbish. Many would have understandably dismissed these claims as simple self-promotion, however the games out and it’s good.X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a hack-n-slash adventure game that loosely follows the

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Insectoid exterminatorIn our incessant search to be entertained it seems many of the great video game genres of old have felt the brunt of our ever-changing tastes. Hack-n-slash games are one such example that has failed to evolve sufficiently beyond their core audience. Even still, if you enjoy a bit of violent button bashing now and again Ninja Blade may yet yield some worthy adversaries to

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Two to the chest, one to the headAs soon as you turn on The House of the Dead: Overkill it becomes immediately obvious that things are far more different than they used to be. Rougher, grittier and far grainier, providing reverence to its predecessors alongside an intrinsic cheesiness that is definitely not ‘over killed’ - pun intended!This game is a definite reinvention of the renowned arcade

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Anime revenge... Sam Jackson styleBeing a self-confessed ‘Otaku’ I was very pleased to find myself faced with the task of reviewing Afro Samurai. Although I have never actually seen the anime or read the manga I was excited nonetheless that an anime video game had made it to our shores. The only knowledge I had of this title was that Samuel L. Jackson provides the voice of the main character, if

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Blimey, Gov’! Dad’s Army meets Aliens on the western frontThings have been rough for the old PSP this past year. Fortunately, someone in their corporate office chair (possibly drinking coffee and playing Risk with consumer electronics figurines) has decided to change all that. From Sony Bend, Resistance: Retribution is the first game in what, Sony hope, will see a software revival for the

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Live @ Glo Bar - Trent vs. Staff17 March 2009 - We may have missed out on the varsity cup this year, but thankfully five of Trent’s finest stepped up to the plate to prove that we’ve still got game when it comes to who the quizmasters really are.On a green-fingered St Patrick’s Day evening the team behind, Buzz! the Nation - Clash of the Unis, heaved a couple of expensive TVs, two PS3s, a

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Are you a flyboy?The year is 2014 and private military companies have been legalised. You are an elite pilot who formerly worked for the government of the United States of America, due to military cutbacks you are now employed by one of the military corporations, Artemis Global Security. You are the captain of the HAWX (High Altitude Warfare eXperimental Squadron).This new combat flight sim is

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A ‘revolution’, this certainly is notTo say punching people in the face (virtually) can be such an innately pleasurable experience at times it does come as a surprise that Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution removes any of the enjoyment out of this pristine pastime. This game does well to serve as a warning that no matter how fun a concept behind a game, maybe it is almost impossible to enjoy those ideas

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Viewtifully visceral violenceMadWorld, an inventive third-person action game exclusively for Wii, this is definitely snuff video gaming at its highpoint; the latest in a short but controversial line of games about a character killing other characters in gruesome ways for the viewing pleasure of an in-game television audience.You enter the game as Jack - ‘Just Jack’, the newest participant in

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Headsets, invites, party mode and chocolate eggsTaking some time out of my usually university run-around, this Easter holiday gave me some time to catch up on a few games I’ve not had time for and, best of all, play some online games with my friends.LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2 are the culprits responsible for most of my misspent daylight hours. Being a collect-’em-up magpie, LBP’s vast palette

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Lagging behind the rests, SOCOM doesn’t put up much of a fight on PS3Co-operation is seldom found in heaps when playing online with random people. Individual players often wish to pull off Commando-style hit-n’-runs, assaulting the enemy base all by their lonesome. Of course such plans can be effective, but more often than not they end badly for the solo assassin, when faced with a team who

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Fun with all the blob-shaped colours of the rainbow‘Roll, bounce, roll, roll, and bounce some more’... that’s all LocoRoco 2’s user manual would read if it was made for people who only have five minutes break and work seven-days a week.Hopefully, that isn’t your case, because, given the chance, you’re likely to find the simplistic but mind-tumbling gameplay addictive enough to lose yourself in

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Caesar is starting to lose his grip.As a strategy game set in the classical period Europa Universalis: Rome is in some truly exemplary company. Games such as the original Age of Empires and Rome: Total War have not just had an influence on the strategy genre but on gaming as a whole. Europa Universalis: Rome is a game that deserves to stand amongst these legends.The main game interface is a map

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Downloading... 8% CompleteIf you’ve been brave enough to forgo the frustration and figure out how to hook up your home console to the internet with one of those “oh, so simple” methods, I’m sure you must have experienced at least one of the many joys online console gaming can bring.Whether it’s downloading add-on content for your latest disc-based game, getting sworn at by a bunch of immature

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Surprisingly not that many residents were getting their evil on in the early hours of this morningIt’s Friday 13th for the second time this year and that of course means only one thing. No, it’s not the release of yet another terrible superstitious horror movie cash-in. Resident Evil 5, Capcom’s bodily acclaimed zombie series, has reach our shores after four years of (im)patience waiting.Late

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To Haduken or not to Haduken?Warning people! Your fingers will be sore after playing this highly addictive game. After ten years since the last in the main series, over sixty spinoff games and remakes, countless anime movies and that god awful live action film (yes, the one with Miss Minogue in), Street Fighter has returned. Get ready to play the mother of all fighting games.As soon as you see

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20 February 2009 - casually donning our crisp white gies as if on our way to the local dojo for a bit of sparring, we caught up with Capcom’s UK PR Manager, Leo Tan, at HMV Oxford Street, to get his thoughts on Street Fighter IV’s launch, and find out just what makes this legendary fighting series so special.Platform: After more than fifteen years Street Fighter is back. What’s the reaction been

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How’s about best out of five next time?Today’s instantaneous modern conveniences have changed the shape of how we all access our entertainment and social past times. Seventeen years ago the golden age of video game arcades was slowly coming to a close. Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Mega Drive had managed to convert many 1980s arcadegoers into smiling home console owners. Many of the hits that had

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Just don’t expect any Fluffy. Eared. Argente. Rabbits.F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the sequel to F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), developed by Monolith Productions. Similar format to the first game, F.E.A.R. 2 is a first-person shooter coupled with an additional survival horror element. You guessed it, Alma is back. The paranormal antagonist continues to impose her presence upon you as

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Call of Duty 4 secures top honours at British video game awardsYesterday evening, 10 March 2009, the annual BAFTA Video Games Awards were held after a year absence. The timely rearrangement of the awards meant that games from the last eighteen months were eligible for nomination, and as such competition this year was particularly tough.EA left with a clutch of awards, including best ‘Use of Audio

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Because players deserve a cosmopolitan gaming universeWhether it’s muscular male heroes sporting bandanas and hefting large guns or scantily clothed bikini girls, all video game genres have their stereotypes. Back in the 16-bit days of gaming’s infancy, characters that were immediately recognisable were the safest bet for developers hoping to build a commercially successful franchise. But in

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“Fifty, d’is game is da sh*t!”Let’s be honest for a second, the first game (50 Cent: Bulletproof) doesn’t exactly fill you with the highest confidence on the success rate of Blood on the Sand. Then again, the tagline on the case doesn’t really help either: ‘their world, his rules’. I was dreading another egotistical commercial of 50 Cent, expanded into a game. As you can tell I’m not a fan of the

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God of War III - Epic scaleKratos is back and now I’m finally starting to understand David Jaffe's (the original creator of the God of War series) crazy hyperboles and rants about the visual prowess of the game. The first teaser was of course exciting but 30 seconds of a pre-rendered Kratos looking stern and agitated wasn't exactly going to keep excitement up for long.We were all eagerly

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Creepier than the bugs in your bedInsects and arachnids have never been ones to be appreciated or embraced by modern humanity, with their excessive amount of legs and almost supernatural presence, the majority of people unlucky enough to have one obstruct their pathway are usually injected with a noxious dose of fear.Deadly Creatures does little to contradict this notion of “creepy crawlies” as

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Show me your badges and I’ll show you mineKillzone 2 is perhaps one of the most anticipated first-person shooters in recent times and as with most current FPSs it comes with an extensive online multiplayer mode. Firstly, the cover mechanic from the single-player campaign has been completely removed, following feedback from the online beta. This makes for more fast paced flowing action, in

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Ensemble’s last stand is a valiant oneThe human race is in danger again, but this time there is no sole Spartan to save us from the covenant threat. This time we have armies at our command to destroy our enemies.Halo Wars is the latest in the Halo franchise, moving from the usual first-person shooter to real-time strategy. Based 20 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo Wars

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Sarge, Johnny’s been eaten alive. What’d we do now?Eidos’ sequel to Shellshock: Nam ‘67 is a very different offering in terms of game play and theme than its predecessor. It is now a first-person shooter with a survival horror twist. Think House of the Dead meets Call of Duty, but not as good as that sounds, unfortunately. The basic premise of Shellshock 2 finds an American GI attempting to track

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Criticising the critiqueJust a brief glance at any one of our reviews and you’ll notice that we don’t place scores at the end. Now on the one hand I can understand this may be as a disservice to consumers. Without the balance (and supposed consistency) of a numerical scale how can you hope to compare two games fairly?When I started as the new Gaming & Technology Editor at Platform, a role I am

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Shh... mummy’s home and she’s not happyThe saying usually goes “home is where the heart is” but with the fifth instalment of Konami’s Silent Hill franchise comes an altered version of that saying because now... home is where the horror is! From a first-person perspective as the character of Alex Shepherd, a soldier recently discharged from duty, the player is immediately sunk into action. A

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Entering the fray at last, but will it make a name for itself?Tentatively peeking over a supply crate, you survey the chaos before you as the blaring red eyes of your enemy close in on your position. Flames and explosions in every direction. Allies brutally shot to pieces by submachine gun fire. Overhead lightning violently sparks, momentarily illuminating the rest of the battlefield through the

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No rings for old ropeWhere did EA and Pandemic go wrong? It has been six years since The Return of the King was released in the cinemas. EA games have refused to take this very tired license off life support and have dragged it, kicking and screaming, into the next generation. Like a condom pulled over a person’s head, The Lord of the Rings license is fitted, very uncomfortably, over the Star

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Saddle up for some swords and slayingYou probably haven't heard of it, but Mount & Blade is basically an open-ended action RPG set in the medieval era. Critically acclaimed for its intense horseback battle system, let’s have a look at the rest of the game.In terms of quests, story (if you can call it that) and progression, it's not that different from what you'd expect from an RPG of this type.

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Stuck in the trenches but still going strongOperation Market Garden: the greatest airborne campaign in history. That’s right, this time it’s Nazis we’re shooting. The German army routs eastward, chased through the Netherlands by the surviving veteran cast of Brothers in Arms. Like Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood before it, Hell’s Highway offers a true-to-life insight and recreation of this

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28 January 2009 - Dr. Andrew Hague, technical manager at Blitz Games Studios, held a delightful panel for students seeking to find a career in games design. An experienced programmer himself, Andrew was kind enough to answer a few probing questions following his talk.Platform: From what you mentioned in your panel it seems like there is a collaborative culture at Blitz Games.Andrew Hague: Yeah,

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What, no ‘Green Onions’?When EA released the original Skate in 2007 it did what skateboarding games had been attempting to do for years and that was offer a decent alternative to the Tony Hawk’s franchise, which unfortunately has lost its way in recent years becoming more and more about gimmicks and Jackass cameos, than about the fundamentals of skateboarding. The question on everyone’s mind

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Guerrilla Games emerge from the shadows at last with their ruthless Helghan army... ready to conquerIt’s that time again. Yes, yet another shooter-to-end-all-shooters is about to arrive. Impossibly large multiplayer modes, perks, chainsaw guns, helmeted heroes - is there anything left that hasn’t been done to death already? Well, looking to prove just that is Guerrilla Games’ premiere PS3 title,

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Paradox dip their feet in a tale of Elven historyElven Legacy is a fantasy, turn-based strategy game due to be released in March 2009. The game features two campaigns centred on Elves and Humans. Races such as Orcs and Undead also feature and can be used in skirmish missions and some bonus missions during the campaign. The campaigns follow a general direction, however, players do have a choice on

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Are you sure this isn’t just another fable?Business is a funny thing. You work half your life to build a trustworthy and tech-savvy team, a family, with which you craft a brand that means something special to consumers, and then, your parent company has a reshuffle and decides to shut you down like the whole thing never happened.Last week saw the closure of Microsoft’s longstanding real-time

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Some of the upcoming titles set to spin in the curved Blu-ray box this year2008 was undoubtedly a great year for the PlayStation 3, with exclusive titles such as MGS4, Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet to name but a few, but you may now be asking yourself what to expect for it in 2009. Well, wonder no further. 2009 is shaping up to be another formidable year for Sony’s shiny black behemoth and

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Xbox 360 had another phenomenal year in 2008, what’s on the cards for 2009?2009: the year that Xbox 360 enters the 'safe zone' that is the console sales peak. The console is cheap, Xbox Live is the current superior online console gaming experience, and the Xbox 360 boasts a vast library of quality software. This library will be expanding again this year, with both good and bad games. Here are ten

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Worried that Nintendo’s console-for-everybody isn’t getting enough love? We’ve served up our top pick of upcoming Wii games for 2009With Xbox 360 and PS3 getting all of the big release these days the family friendly waggle box hasn’t been so good to gamers look for a little more substance than subpar party games. Thank goodness, then, for these ten delectable titles we’ve managed to unearth amid

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We highlight some of the upcoming treats keyboard aficionados have to look forward to in 2009Here we go again, another year of games to anticipate. Although, we might add, 2009 looks much more promising than 2008 for the PC. Real-time strategy, role-playing, action - they’re all in development for the ever-improving PC system. Consoles may have converted many, but the PC still remains an

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Taking the PC graphic adventure to the dank caverns belowPenumbra Collection is a series of games developed by Frictional Games and republished by Paradox. The collection contains Overture, Black Plague and Requiem. However, the latter is not intended as a direct story continuation of its predecessors, but as a more experimental effort focusing on gameplay over narrative.The first thing I'll say

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Somebody better tell Poirot to pack his things, because Professor Layton is in the houseYou know how the old saying goes... ‘Curiosity killed the cat’ but not for this Professor, for this Professor, curiosity gets you interesting, entertaining and stimulating game-play! As those of us with a DS know, there is no scarcity of brain training and mini-game collections floating around in the DS game

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Zombie-flesh-eating-headshot-team-survival-excellenceFinally, the end of the world as we know it is here, and boy was it worth the wait! A city in ruins, ruins on fire, and zombies leaping, crawling and shambling all over the place. The pandemic has left those infected deranged and mutated, but the true victims of this terrifyingly plausible outbreak are the four survivors - the Vietnam vet, the

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Rollin’ with da club in West Side’s roughest neighbourhoodAfter a three and a half year gap, Rockstar Games street racing franchise makes its debut with Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and is the first instalment to focus on a single city. Choosing LA for its extensive straights, wide freeways and hills, the game continues to summarise Hollywood’s interpretation of illegal street racing to fantastic

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Presenting the most brutal deaths this side of industrial miningAfraid of the dark? Well you should be, because there is something there and it’s not afraid of you. Dead Space is the latest in games made to have you reach for that cushion and not want to turn the lights off. You take on the role of an engineer, Isaac Clarke, called out to an asteroid mining ship that is in need of repair. Isaac

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Is it time for Lady Croft to hang up her holsters?Tomb Raider: Underworld is the latest in the slow, painful, dying series that should have probably been stopped after Lara’s fourth venture to collect shiny ancient bits. The story follows on from the ending of the not-so-brilliant Tomb Raider: Legend, that revealed Lara’s mum, who went missing when Lara was a child, is still alive - how clichéd.

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Conquest, politics, exploration, cream tea and guillotinesEven without the expansions Europa Universalis III Complete is a huge game that offers a sprawling period of strategic play, spanning from the day after the fall of the Byzantine Empire (1453) until the beginning of the French Revolution (1789). You can control any of over 250 countries during this time span from the large great powers of

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Ready to prove that they’ve still got itThere’s nothing quite like a fresh start to reinvigorate a tired series. And an absence for more than fifteen years immediately brings with it some potent reactions when a surprise reboot is announced. Misshapen promises of the past are forgotten as fans eagerly soak up the sumptuous new age visuals, reminiscing about the carefree days of their youth. Will

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Sackboy has landed and the party is only just beginning...It’s easy to mistake LittleBigPlanet for just another platformer at first, but upon closer inspection it becomes apparent that this is a game unlike anything you have ever experienced before. LittleBigPlanet is a diverse playground and a new breed of video game that empowers users with the ability to create and share. It’s alive with

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Marcus Fenix and COG are back and even burlierIt is a tricky process to portray blockbuster scale and grandeur in a video game. Ultimately the ideal can be either make or break because it’s such a fine line to balance upon. As with previous big budget releases, even the thought of a blockbuster game sequel brings in huge amounts of sales. The question of whether the game is enjoyable comes into

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A classic platformer rekindled once moreHaving never played any of the games from the Prince of Persia franchise, I came to play this game as somewhat of an outsider. That's not to say that you need to have played the previous games to understand the storyline, it holds its own as more than just part of a franchise. The graphical art style took me by surprise. At first I was unsure of the almost

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Run Faith, Run!Mirror’s Edge is one of those games that I could not help but feel initially hesitant to try. You’ve seen the trailers, it looks very unique, but the big question is how does it play? Well, the answer to that question is better than expected. You play as Faith, the protagonist whose occupation, a Runner, involves her using the city’s rooftops to pass messages between contacts in a

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America’s history is about to be rewrittenAt some point in Resistance 2’s single-player campaign you’re likely to pause for a brief moment, to take in the enormous magnitude and splendour of one of its many set pieces. And then that will be followed by some hasty dodging as Auger fire starts to rain down around your head. Sequel to one of PS3’s standout launch titles, Resistance 2 ups the ante in

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Welcome to the alternative safari experienceImagine yourself as a mercenary thrown into Africa. Apart from being anything far from paradise you immediately run into a string of bad luck in this foreign land and after being ambushed by a band of guards you contract Malaria. Can things get any worse? Far Cry 2 is a first-person shooter with a choice of characters to play as and your mission from

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Rapture returns to inject its way straight on to PS3The thrilling, atmospheric first-person shooter first released on PC and Xbox 360 last August has finally made its way to the PS3, bringing with it all its original glory and a few new nifty features only available in this definitive PS3 version. Namely, the inclusion of the new survivor difficulty setting, the all important Trophies and

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Can the battles of the Pacific Front hope to rival COD4?With a legacy of highly successful titles in the Call of Duty series, the fifth instalment Call of Duty: World at War has a lot to live up to. Developer Treyarch, returns to the series World War II roots aiming to expose wars true face rather than the glorified versions often shown in video games. Unlike previous instalments of Call of Duty

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Tweaking the nuts and bolts of their platforming roots with a whole new adventure on Microsoft’s box of hardcore heavenIt’s been eight years since we last saw Banjo-Kazooie on the N64, now the tag team bear and bird have returned for another battle with the evil witch Gruntilda, but has time and age taken hold of our beloved characters? As the game opens we find ourselves with an out of shape

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Twist some metal and burn some rubber on an island paradiseBarrelling down a sheer mountain face at high speed, as the burnt carcasses of rival racers tumble through the air beside you, is tremendously thrilling. And things will seem even more gripping if you manage to actually make it across the finish line in one peace. Taking place on a remote island paradise full of beautiful sunset vistas

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Who knew the apocalypse would be so much fun?The Capital Wasteland: an irradiated no-man’s land littered with settlers and law-bringers, but crawling with thugs, bugs and super-mutant hulks. Despite nearly five million copies leaving the shelves after the first week of sales, Fallout 3 leaves the confusing aftertaste of a similar conflict between the giant shoulders of the Fallout franchise, and

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“Unit 2, move to point Delta and secure us some Chinese food!”After the news that Ubisoft would be releasing a game capable of being completely controlled by voice commands, it’s not surprising how people could be spectacle of how this might turn out. Tom Clancy’s EndWar is set in the not too distant future. The world has three new superpowers the USA, Russia and the newly formed European

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Pinch those luscious grapes and this time it really will cost youWhen Lionhead Studios revealed, even before the release of the Xbox 360, that a sequel to the grossly successful fantasy RPG, Fable, would headline the next generation of Microsoft’s console experience, gamers responded with an understandably mixed response of admonition and burgeoning anticipation. Once again, notorious designer,

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The streets of Stillwater have changed - the Saints are back and thirsty for revenge!Saints Row 2 takes place from the third-person perspective with a character customised by you from scratch with voice, gender, age, weight and even ‘crib’ modification. You are thrown back into the city of Stillwater, but not before your customised character is excitedly revealed from beneath a set of mummy-like

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Those awkward party moments are here once moreSony’s singing success is back on PlayStation 3 with another varied collection of artists. Trying to imitate Shaun Ryder’s nasal tones as you sing Happy Monday’s 'Kinky Afro' is one thing. It’s another when you’re vying for harmonious victory against your friends and recording the whole embarrassing session to relive. SingStar Vol. 3 showcases thirty

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Gaming some ABBA GoldSidestepping divided opinions on the Meryl Streep movie, Mamma Mia and the star-studded foursome, that made it more than just a spicy-sounding-Italian-dish, are ‘hot’ right now. So naturally, it was only a matter of time before game publishers came knocking to take a slice of their gold plated pie. Fortunately, this didn’t take the shape of a poorly executed dance-based movie

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Off-road acrobatics are hotter than new rims this seasonCombining extreme sports with a flight of the imagination, such an exemplary yet simple game design has been overlooked on many consoles this generation. Pure brings absolutely nothing new to this formulaic buffet. Pretty much all design choices mimic the architecture of SSX. Fortunately though, breaking away from the monotonous onslaught

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Could you lead a tribe of anomalous creatures to galactic dominance?It is not uncommon for a game to focus around the development of a character or protagonist. Such maturity is usually accomplished through a well balanced combination of gameplay, and narrative. In Final Fantasy X, Tidus witnesses how an industrial society and the exploitation of machines can impact a society 1000 years into the

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Underfoot, undercover and underachievingHit the accelerator and dodge through rush hour traffic to lose the cops. Need for Speed Undercover, the latest iteration of EA’s long running racing franchise, sees them return to the cop-evading structure of 2005’s well received Most Wanted. The 411 here has you going undercover in Tri-City to stop a dangerous crime syndicate smuggling, what else but,

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Wishing you a frag filled festive season...Blinding lights in every direction and throngs of students in Christmassy outfits parading the town at every opportunity, the festive season has once again arrived in Nottingham. 2008 is coming to a close at long last and what a year it’s been. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Fable II, MGS4, Burnout Paradise, LittleBigPlanet, GTA IV - 2008 has literally been

Platformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418640704995552483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361360342466357748.post-57579784379277759962008-12-13T05:04:00.021Z2009-11-08T15:54:29.266Z

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A-Z of video game reviewsSpace for expanding in the future...

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A-Z of video game reviews#50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (PS3, Xbox 360)AAfro Samurai (PS3, Xbox 360)BBanjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Xbox 360)Bioshock (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)CCall of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, DS, PS2)DDead Space (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)Deadly Creatures (Wii)EEuropa Universalis III Complete (PC)Europa Universalis: Rome (PC)

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Who we are and what we’re aboutPlatform Gaming is run by a dedicated team of student writers bringing honest and intelligent coverage of video game & technology culture to Nottingham Trent University's student magazine, Platform.Still in its infancy, we hope you’ll join us as we bring new features including interviews, event reports and greater community involvement to Platform’s Gaming &

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GameCity 3 may be over but you can relive all its highlightsIt’s finally complete! Yes, at long last our coverage of GameCity 3 is right here on the blog. I hope you enjoy reading and viewing all of the things I saw and snapped at the festival. The best part definitely had to be meeting all the fantastic developers and special guests who attended the show! I think the Stewards (many of which were

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GameCity 3 wrapped up in style at the Britannia Ballroom with the launch of Save the VideogameFollowing a frenzied run through the rain sodden streets of Nottingham, I arrived at the luxurious Britannia Ballroom once more to end my GameCity 3 adventures. Those who’d made the effort enjoyed some brilliant music from the likes of Power Play and Press Play on Tape, a selection of free drinks

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Keith Stuart laid down some gaming trivia and the EDGE scoring system on some of my more outlandish dev ideasMy last trip to the fabulous Mogel-E-Azam for GameCity related business was for the Guardian Gamesblog Quiz. Hosted by Keith Stuart, long-time games journalist, this exciting event pitched game fans, journalists and developers against one and other in effort to win some fantastic

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Coming Soon...

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After being mobbed by cameras and notepads like he had just created the next Beatles album, Alex was generous enough to escape the land of media moguls to have a short chat with us about what it’s like to be involved in indie development, his thoughts on GameCity and how he feels now that the world-changing LittleBigPlanet is ready for release.Platform: How does it feel now that you’ve finally

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Media Molecule, creators of the hugely acclaimed LittleBigPlanet, presented this year's BAFTA Vision StatementPlay. Create. Share. These are the three simple words that have elevated Media Molecule, the close-knit developer based above a toilet store in Guildford, to the status of modest gaming royalty. Their crowning jewel, LittleBigPlanet, is a revolutionary title that allows users to create

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This final curry-fuelled discussion took us deep into the mind of Tom Armitage – coder, gamer, photographer, writer and sufficient cookThe final lunchtime session at Mogel-E-Azam was taken by Tom Armitage, a thoughtful web designer and coder from London. His eccentrically ad hoc depiction of the future, titled ‘If Gamers Ran The World?’, was delivered in a more minimalist manner than that of the

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Jonathan Smith, Development Director of TT Games, shared why some of his design philosophies for making games have changed and teased us about the future for LEGO titlesPlatform: During your presentation you spoke about making video games more accessible for children. How has your design philosophy changed, in regards to difficulty, since you’ve been making LEGO games?Jonathan Smith: We were very

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Building family fun, brick by brickReturning to Gatecrasher on a chilly November 1st, GameCity had already seen the likes of video game classics such as GoldenEye 007 and cultural phenomenon like Rock Band, the final day of the festival had a tough act to follow. This was no problem for Jonathan Smith, however, as he presented a wholehearted look at how his company, TT Games, goes about making

Platformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418640704995552483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361360342466357748.post-15796989809194310062008-12-07T04:06:00.007Z2009-02-04T01:24:30.773Z

Things got spooky when Rock Band, Jonathan Coulton and Resident Evil invaded the Britannia Ballroom on HalloweenFollowing a feverish day’s work I headed to the Britannia Hotel to wrap up the second day of GameCity with a suitably themed Halloween party. The mood was upbeat at this informal get together and gave fans the opportunity to chat to some of the guests that stuck around after their

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They eat brains and get Guinness World RecordsIt’s not every day that you get to fumble your way through hundreds of undead zombies as Michael Jackson’s Thriller fills the air around you. But that’s just what happened on Friday 31st October as the residents of Nottingham marched on Market Square.This exciting (and not to mention bizarre) event was one of the biggest highlights of GameCity this

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The guys from Harmonix sat down to tell us a bit about what they think of GameCity, the National Videogame Archive and their student years.Platform: What do you think of GameCity so far?Alex Navarro: It’s pretty fascinating. It’s very different from the kind of festivals that we have in the US. I think the closest thing you’d equate it to is something like PAX, which is a very fan oriented kind

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Bigger than sliced bread, The Beatles and... Jesus?There may have been no groupies in sight, but Harmonix arrival at Gatecrasher was greeted with whooping and applause as they took the stage. If there was any doubt that Harmonix are worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles and Jesus, panel host Margaret Robertson soon cleared that up with a few well cited online comparison charts.

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Ever wondered how video games get rated in the UK? Jim Cliff from the British Board of Film Classification was here to break it all down.The second speaker to take the well polished floor at Mogal-E-Azam was Jim Cliff BBFC examiner, to remind just how seriously they take the games they rate. Currently the UK has two video game rating systems in use: BBFC and PEGI. But while PEGI is a voluntary

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Eleven years on from their N64 smash hit, the creators of GoldenEye 007 sat down with us to talk about its legacy and give students some sound advice.Platform: For those unfamiliar with your work tell us a bit of history about GoldenEye 007?Martin Hollis: It was a first-person shooter, it came out 1997 in US and it was one of the first console FPSs. I think it had a big influence on the

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Martin Hollis and David Doak, the creators of the massively acclaimed N64 first-person shooter GoldenEye 007, presented the definitive commentary on the gameBefore Master Chief ever set foot on Halo, before Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4 mesmerized players with its online multiplayer, there was one FPS that revolutionised the genre – GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64. After being commissioned by

Platformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418640704995552483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361360342466357748.post-68126323500276406132008-11-22T15:13:00.006Z2009-02-04T01:24:30.776Z

...from a bed! If you’re familiar with the UK podcast scene chances are you’ll have heard of One Life Left, the gaming podcast with an impromptu satirical edge. Hosted by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury, this special live appearance took place on the first floor of Mogel-E-Azam and I arrived just in time for the start of the show, after departing a rather low-key DS night.Settling

Platformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418640704995552483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361360342466357748.post-65951376385246839872008-11-22T10:47:00.011Z2008-11-23T17:23:21.382Z

In these times of financial crisis the number of independent developers is dwindling, so it’s good to know that independent games still have a voice. That voice is Indiecade, a team of experts who work tirelessly to assist indie developers and showcase their work at festivals around the world. Indiecade were stationed at the rather quaint Malt Cross, at this year’s GameCity. Here are some of our

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