In a light news (post-PAX) week Phil gives his final impressions of two That Game Company games; Flower and Journey. Tom also manages to play Killzone 2 again, and still find new things to say about it.
Hilarity Ensues, Thanks for listening,
- Phil
Tom Towers (left) and Phil Fogg prepare for their clan meeting. Err, rather, their Journey convention.
Tom Towers and Phil Fogg go over all the new console and pricing news of the week.
Tom also finishes out the Max Payne franchise and gives an Aural Review of Max Payne 3 (in addition to outlining the plots for Max Payne, 4, 5 and 6.
- Phil
Max loves the night life.
It's our fourth BIG SHOW, and so we go all out with first impressions of Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, Papers Please, Earthbound and Game and Wario. A feature on third-person shooters can be found as well as an Aural Review of Max Payne 2 from Tom Towers.
We cover the latest news from Gamescom and around the gaming world, thanks for listening.
- Phil
Phil Fogg returns to talk NPD's, Microsoft's latest reversal and some first and final impressions of games new and old, including Bastion, Max Payne, Thomas Was Alone and Vanquish.
This week we not only give our best and worst gaming experiences of the week, but also lengthy discourses on Microsoft's strategy, Nintendo's woes and the plight of the modern writer (and history of when writers had it good).
Thank you for listening and please, if you enjoy or hate our show, tell a friend.
- Phil
This week we have first impressions of PayDay 2 and some Final Summations of Thomas Was Alone, Vanquish, Red Faction, Another World and Worms Revolution (as well as the week's biggest news).
Thank you for listening, and please, share our show if you like it.
In the next show we'll be talking about Bastion, among other things, so I figured I'd pull out a review from Tom's past. This was lost to the sands of time when robotgeek.co.uk went under, but I've brought it back to life for all the internet to read, right here.
The kid shoots up a convenience store.
First-Person Action RPG's. There are not a lot of them, so far as I know there are two that have been published, Zeno Clash and Zeno Clash II which makes them the absolute best (and second best) in their category.
Now I think about it though, wouldn't Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls series also be described as First-Person Action RPG's?
Well, in any case, Tom Towers, my esteemed and long-suffering co-host has reviewed the newly released Zeno Clash II over at laserlemming.com.
While the characters might still be complete with their funky hair and primitive dispositions on the PS3, the world itself is only a shell of its true self. And any moments of intensity from the PC version that weren’t taken from you by a glitch, are taken from you here by the unreliable and at times unplayable frame rate.
That is one pissed off crab.
Wow, I went a whole week without giving you all a post, sorry. But to make up for it, we have one of our best shows ever. The explanation for the image below is in the show, as well as our impressions of Zeno Blade 2, Retro City Rampage and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine along with Pikmin 3 and the week's other news.
$150. Will Phil Buy It?
This week we've both played Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, Bioshock Infinite, and Tom has a few views of his own on Worms Revolution and Mystery Game.
We also go over the week's news. Thanks for listening.
- Phil
Semper Fi!
Tom has reviewed the latest re-make of Leisure Suit Larry, the groundbreaking Sierra adventure game from the 80's/ 90's.
The simple puzzles combined with the fact that the rest of Reloaded moves along at a wandering, nonlinear pace across an equally flexible structure only helps to exaggerate the finicky nature of the interface and vice versa.
You can read it all over at laserlemming.com.
All Praise Al Lowe