This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here: Huge success.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
I normally wouldn’t ever include a recent release on any “top x” list be it a game, book, music or film but Portal has to be an exception. It is absolutely fantastic. I’ve said so before and I’m saying [...]
I don’t have any more to add to this than I already said a short while ago so I won’t try. I’m including this game partly as the token console entry but also because the games are sheer, unadulterated fun. The sequel gets in because it’s got more stuff in it like drivable [...]
I’ve already written about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas this year so I’m not going to harp on about it in depth. It had to make this list – or at least the series did and of the three games I’ve played, San Andreas makes it in account of it’s expansive game area, the [...]
This entry should be no surprise to anyone who’s worked out a pattern in my gaming habits or to anyone who knows anything at all about games. Although the mechanics of the game weren’t fundamentally different to it’s predecessors, Half-life stood head and shoulders above the competition because of the way it was designed [...]
Deus Ex is a phenomenal game. I always thought that there was only me and a few other people who had played it and even now, seven years later, I’m stunned by the people who still reckon that it’s one of the best games ever. DX is a first person shooter but, like [...]
In the comments about Dan’s Top 20 game list, Matt said “The best Star Wars game level ever is was the Battle Of Endor in [Rogue Squadron 2: Rebel Leader].” He was partly correct: he got the right level but the wrong game.
X-Wing Alliance was the final part (to date) of the [...]
Despite watching loads of films lately, I haven’t reviewed any here because I seem to have committed myself to wittering on about 20 video games that I like rather than writing a couple of posts to summarise all of them like more sensible people have and so therefore tying myself up in a never fucking [...]
I’ve just finished watching the Dr Who episode Blink that everyone’s been raving about. I didn’t get to see a vast majority (i.e. any) of the episodes when they first aired earlier this year on account of timey-wimey being all non-linear and wibbley-wobbley and stuff. Well, that and not having any television reception [...]
By rights I probably shouldn’t include System Shock 2 in this list because I’m not even half way through it. Despite being released in ‘99, it bypassed me totally. What can I say? 1999 was a good year in gaming and I had a lot of other stuff to get through. [...]
(Updated with an afterthought below)
Back to the realms of the CRPG now. In 1998, Bioware released Baldur’s Gate – a game based on the Dungeons and Dragons ruleset and built using the Infinity engine. The Infinity engine would be subsequently used in severeal further D&D games including Baldur’s Gate 2 and the Icewind [...]
