Author: Joanne

  • Digital Dilemma – Spare Parts

    Dear Jo, You probably don’t know me. Sure, you’ll know Soap, Price, Ramirez, Ghost… but you won’t know me. I’ll tell you what, you can just call me ‘Other Guy’. Everybody else does. I’m just as skilled as everyone else. I’m a soldier, but you wouldn’t think so. I go on high profile, dangerous missions……

  • Digital Dilemma – New in Town

    Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing with the utmost urgency. I have been living in this city for a grand total of two months, and already I have ran into a boatload, no, a shipload of problems. It started small. A naked man ran by and kicked me as he was running. I thought it was…

  • Digital Dilemma – The Best Undead

      Dear Jo, My name is Jeff the Zombie. You can just call me Jeff, though. I had to write to you because if I tried to call you, the words would come out like ‘Euuuurghhh, mrggggghhh’ because my tongue is missing and my brain is rotting, or something. I’m a bit sensitive about that so we’ll…

  • Digital Dilemma – Like a Boss

    Dear Jo, I am writing to you in dismay. I am an all powerful being. If you kill me, you do not kill me. In fact, you make me mutate. Not just once either, but three times! Can you imagine how powerful you have to be to be able to do that? Let me tell you… it’s pretty…

  • Digital Dilemma – Leon’s Worries

    Dear Jo, My name is Leon Kennedy. You may know me as the protagonist from such games as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4. Now, as you know, these are the most popular titles in the franchise and I can’t help but feel that it’s down to me, somehow. Maybe it’s my floppy hair……

  • Back to Basics

    A new game has taken the world by storm. Forget Modern Warfare. Forget Mass Effect. Forget your fancy graphics and your multiple choice endings. This game doesn’t need any of those things. This game has no story, no elaborate character development, and its only control system is a finger. Yet millions of people can’t put…

  • Sympathy for the Henchmen

    It must be hard being a henchman. An enemy. Bullet fodder. You walk in circles, day in, day out, just to earn a wage… and what do you get? A bullet to the face. Your final moments, if you are spared time to think, spent wallowing in the realisation that the whole of your department…

  • The Darkness 2

    The Darkness was one of the early releases on the Xbox 360, and one that didn’t quite get the recognition it deserved, in my humble opinion. For years, I truly believed that the game would be a forgotten gem, and that we would hear nothing else on the subject. When I heard that a sequel…

  • Remembering a Genre

    I got Zelda: Skyward Sword for christmas. Hurrah! I love Zelda! Unfortunately due to my inability to read small print when jumping about shouting ‘I have Zelda!’ I did not notice the requirement written on the box for a Wii Motion Plus. As it was Christmas Day when I discovered that I could not play…

  • Tekken Hybrid

    I like a bit of Tekken, me. It’s the one fighting game where you can actually button bash yourself into some decent combos and pretend you’re actually good at it. Tekken Hybrid is a combination of a HD remake of Tekken Tag Tournament (originally on Playstation 2), a prologue/sneak peek of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and…