Posts Tagged ‘playstation’

[Retrocity] Driver

March 21st, 2010

Right, time to stop being lazy. Retrocity has returned!

Today I’m looking at a relatively modern game, released in 1999 for the Playstation, and then ported to Windows and Mac a year later. This game gives me a chance to reminisce a bit. As you may know, I’ve never owned any gaming machines other than a PC and a GameBoy Color which is lying around in a cupboard somewhere. But I first came across Driver on the Playstation. Back in those days, I would go round to a friend’s house. A friend who was obsessed with gaming. You might know him; his name was Tom. When the Megadrive was turned off, it was Driver that kept us entertained. We’d take it in turns to lead police cars on a chase up and down multi-storey car parks, or shunt cars onto the tracks and watch them get demolished when the tram came along. » Read more: [Retrocity] Driver

[PS2] Final Fantasy XII review

November 24th, 2009

Final Fantasy XII is a PS2 exclusive game created by Square-Enix in 2005, to hit shelves in 2006. The final fantasy franchise was its busiest it had been for a long time around this period with many games released very close to one another (Namely 12, 4 Advance, Advent Children, and Dirge of Cerberus) however this game was by far the biggest game title to be released.

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[RR] [PS2] Shadow of the Colossus

September 26th, 2009
Editors note: This article is FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUULLL of images, blame Rob for the sheer number
Box

Box

Before we start, I would just like to say that this was my favourite PS2 game.

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[PS2] Dynasty Warriors 5 Review

September 17th, 2009

The Dynasty Warriors series by Koei, started on the PS1 as a simple beat-em-up with weapons, kinda like Soul Caliber. With the second in the series it changed to a more RPG style slash-em-up in big maps. This 5th version of the series has currently the most characters, stories, stages and weapons.

Cover art for dynasty warriors 5

Cover art for dynasty warriors 5

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[PS3] [PSP] Sony open casting for The Tester

September 3rd, 2009

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Sony has opened its doors for a casting call for a new reality show called The Tester. The show will involve gamers from the San Diego area pitting their skills against each other to determine who will become the new reality TV show star we all hate. Finalists from the series will become official game testers for PlayStation and will be able to study “the best games we all want to play”.

This series of programs will follow a group of select gamers as they face-off in a series of elimination challenges designed to test their mental toughness, endurance, and video game knowledge as they compete for a job working as a PlayStation game tester.

… “mental toughness”? “Endurance”? What, are they going to be playing Ratchet and Clank on a treadmill while solving Fermat’s theorem? Someone give this guy a rowing machine, I’m sure he’s up to the job. Video after the break.

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