Category: Playstation 3

DOOM 3 was a game I watched land at a distance. By the time it launched I had grown weary of FPS titles and the criticism from the fanbase sort of pushed it to the wayside for me. It was a game that polarized. DOOM 3 made many changes to the format established in its predecessors. DOOM’s previous installments and many clones forged certain expectation with this series. And DOOM 3 would catch flak for changes to the format, to enemy redesigns, to the deliberate focus on dark environments. But how much is warranted?

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The release of DOOM 2016 has rekindled the imagination and memories of many, many people. It’s hailed as contemporary yet a return to form. DOOM reached a lot of people’s computers, and it’s clear that it stuck. At present I don’t have a platform for the game, so I decided to reach out to the installment I had never played in any capacity – DOOM 3. And to frag three pinkies with one shell, I looked to the BFG Edition which also collected DOOM 1 and 2 on PS3. Not the ideal experience, but it worked and so I played these games for the first time in over 15 years.

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GhostBusters was pretty big when I was growing up, and I loved it. Loved the movies, loved The Real GhostBusters cartoon, loved the toys. Just like countless others, I was all for this series. That puts certain high expectations for any new media related to the franchise, especially when it purports to be canon to the original films. And 2009’s GhostBusters The Video Game has such a distinction.

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Guacamelee! Is a game I’d been watching for a while, but didn’t jump on until I received a glowing recommendation from a buddy. It’s been touted as “Luchador Metroid” and that’s not entirely far from the truth. What Guacamelee! Does is blend elements into something entirely unique and fresh. Available on the PSN, it promises to become one of the platform’s standout games of the year.

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The jackal is approaching the end of its years. It was chased into these sewers ages ago and has finally claimed them for his own. And now he prowls, a vicious shadow felling the panthers of the sewer as if they were lambs. No resistance down here, except the Tigers. Mate in tow, he crawls through the muck looking to find a suitable place to pass on his legacy. He drops into a nest – it’s crawling with tigers! He barely makes it out alive, and makes a hasty retreat across the sewers to the one other place he remembers. It’s farther, but hopefully it’s safer. He makes it there while he barely has any virility left. His line is secured, for now.

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“HD Remakes” are becoming more and more common. I’ve already written about the ICO/Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection but just as common are revamped games released through digital distribution channels. These are not always just new textures and reworked resolutions. Sometimes it is a complete remake, as is the case of Spelunker HD.

And while Spelunker HD is certainly a remake, it is still quite reverent of its source material and is unabashedly old school in its design and execution. A lot of games I talk about on this blog have a love/hate dichotomy. This is taken more towards the extreme with Spelunker HD which retains the infamous flavour of the original release.

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