Category: Video Games
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Upon first glance, you will almost certainly think that gaming has gone backwards. With the polished style and intensity in graphics to which we have now become so accustomed, it’s hard to see what would grab your attention about the blocky pixels of Minecraft. But if you dig deeper (quite literally), you will find a…
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Apart from being a better game in general, the main thing that sets The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim apart from its predecessor Oblivion is the fact that you don’t feel as if you’ve been put into a gaming environment; you feel as though you’re a part of a whole other functional world – a world…
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Space Rogue was a game that in its day very much broke the mould for top-down 2D RPGs by including in it a flight simulator. Taking inspiration from the Star Wars character Han Solo, and adopting the gameplay of popular 80s fantasy role-playing game Ultima and the space flight simulation and trading concept of Elite,…
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For the first review in the brand new Retro series of video game reviews on The Edge, I thought I’d go with my favourite game of all-time, naturally. In my opinion Final Fantasy IX has everything that a video game needs: an emotional and engaging storyline, relatable and genuinely interesting characters, and an epic amount…
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Late 2011 is currently set to see the emergence of several third installments of best-selling shooters, including Resistance, Modern Warfare, Battlefield, etc. However, the first of these inevitable blockbusters to prise our student loans from our greedy little fists is the hotly anticipated Gears of War 3. Previous installment Gears of War 2 split fan…
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The Edge takes a look at the brand new first trailer for the upcoming fifth installment in the Grand Theft Auto series.
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Rockstar Games are best known for their immensely popular Grand Theft Auto series, the gaming franchise that introduced us to free-roaming ‘sandbox’ gameplay — a vast world in which one ‘freely roams’, visiting certain locations if they wish to do certain set missions. This meant that the world’s youth could sit mindlessly for hours, going…
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Strangely enough, video games are seemingly the only medium where sequels are routinely better than the original. It wasn’t going to be difficult for Valve to outstrip the first Portal in terms of length or story, but with such a unique game mechanic came the fear that any sequel would be hard pressed to match…