Compared to last year it was quite a struggle to even come up with ten games from this year to include on a top ten list. It seems that a huge amount of titles got pushed back to 2010 and those blockbuster titles that did come out in 2009 were nearly uniformly overrated or just plain shite (I’m looking at you here Halo:ODST, Brutal Legend and Assassins Creed II).
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Month: February 2010
Failure to communicate
Well things started out more or less fine. But leaving material in work and getting back into World of Warcraft sort of scuppered that. I tried to recover but it would appear that my ability to queue up articles to publish automatically failed miserably. Which means that I’m going to have to indulge in some batch posting and back dating. But as I can’t afford to be caught online in work it’s likely to take all weekend.
Mass Effect 2 – The difference between good and great
I really enjoyed Mass Effect 1, unlike Jade Empire it actually managed to live up to they hype. While it did have some technical and gameplay issues (texture pop-in, terrible inventory system and those fucking elevators) it was still a great game. In particular I liked the world it was set in. The story itself was also pretty enjoyable and well constructed. So needless to say I was looking forward to Mass Effect 2 quite a bit. Continue reading…