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A blog about all aspects of PC gaming: commercial, shareware and freeware. My tastes tend to veer towards adventure games and RPGs, but I'll give pretty much anything a go. New games or retro, they'll all get a mention. First impressions, mini-revie
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PC Game Review - Neverwinter Nights Platinum Edition
Neverwinter Nights is an old but still very good RPG which is now out in a "Platinum Edition", which includes two expansion packs for the measly sum of ten pounds (about $16.50 at the current exchange rate). [In the UK this was released as Neverwint...
PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3: The Lair of the Leviathan
Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3: The Lair of the Leviathan cleans up a few of the problems that were rearing their heads in episode 2, though I didn’t think it was quite as good as episode 1. Guybrush is trapped inside a giant manatee with his Fi...
PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
Tales of Monkey Island Season One, Episode Two (The Siege of Spinner Cay) carries on directly where the first one episode left off – with Guybrush held at sword-point on his own shop. The fact that the owner of this sword turns out to be, among ot...
PC Game Review - Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode Four - The Bogey Man
The season finale of Wallace & Gromit Grand Adventures, The Bogey Man, sees a welcome return to form for the duo. At the end of episode 3 we found Wallace, due to an unexpected and rather dramatic misunderstanding, engaged (or almost...
PC Game Review - Plant vs Zombies
The zombie apocalypse arrives, you are trapped in your house. What do you do? install barbed wire? emplaced weaponry? Not if you are in Plants vs Zombies! This is the one for you garden lovers with a hankering to slay the undead. You might wonder why...
PC Game Review - Keepsake
Set in a school where all the students have mysteriously disappeared, a young woman who should be starting her training must discover the secrets of a strange academy - and the plot that has engulfed it. After briefly being introduced to the basic ga...
PC Game Review - New Star Soccer 4
New Star Soccer 4 charts the career of a footie player, from the earliest days playing in the non-league right through to (hopefully) domestic and international glory. There are so many countries and leagues available that I won’t even bother tryin...
PC Game Review - Full Throttle
Full Throttle is one of the games that comes from what it commonly known as LucasArts' "golden age" of adventure gaming, and has a sizeable cult following - maybe not quite on the scale of Monkey Island's fan base, but still impressive. For this reas...
PC Game Review - Battle for Middle Earth
The Battle for Middle Earth is a real time strategy (RTS) game set in the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien, and a pretty good one it is too. You can take control of the forces of good or evil as you wage a campaign that will forever change the fa...
Memories of "Beyond Good and Evil"
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PC Game Review - Wallace & Gromit Grand Adventures Episode Two: The Last Resort
The second episode in TellTale Games' Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures, entitled "The Last Resort", brings to fruitition much of the potential shown, but not realised, by the first episode ("Fright of the Bumble Bees"). Everything about this se...
PC Game Review - Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
Following on from the first Runaway game, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle is another traditional point and click adventure game that follows the adventures of Brian Basco and Gina Timmins. Well. That is to say Gina is in the game a tiny bit - whe...
Round of up PC Game Reviews so far
Adventure GamesSam & Max Season One Sam & Max Season TwoAnd Then There Were NoneReturn to Mysterious IslandJourney to the MoonRunaway: A Road AdventureSecret Files: TunguskaRPGSpellforce: The Order of the Game Beyond DivinityRacing GamesMoto ...
