by James ‘Bassman’ Bass It’s time for a change; normally I use this segment as a vehicle to evoke some lost nostalgia, a dormant memory of some great game finally coming back to life after ‘x’ number of years. But not this time. This article will be devoted to something more current; an encounter I […]
by James ‘Bassman’ Bass Driving; it’s a fundamental part of our human development. When traversing the pitfalls of the teenage years our lives are structured towards three simple goals; finishing school, having intercourse and learning to drive. In console terms the driving genre has a similar amount of structure. Games normally fall into one of […]
by James ‘Bassman’ Bass The Sega Dreamcast; quite possibly the most underrated, misunderstood console of all time. A labour of love and the company’s last bastion in the home console wars. Has it really been over a decade since this gem’s light extinguished? It doesn’t feel like it and if you ask any ‘Cast owning […]
by James ‘Bassman’ Bass This one…this one’s a big one. Devil May Cry; ‘DMC’, the daddy of the third-person action/adventure genre. Such an effortlessly cool game; no fancy game modes where you face wave after wave of the undead, no ridiculous in-game advertisement or ability to link your high scores to Facebook (even though that […]
By James ‘Bassman’ Bass Ok, ok. So I know it’s an obvious one, but to omit a discussion about GoldenEye when recollecting a list of your favourite games? Simply ridiculous. Rare’s FPS masterpiece is just that: a masterpiece. A (pardon the pun) rare occasion when film and game merge in harmony and the result […]
by James “Bassman” Bass The Ultra 64 (or as the majority of you will know it, the Nintendo 64); what a piece of hardware! Four controller ports, acute loading times, smooth graphics and Mario 64 from launch. There literally were no downsides. Well…strictly speaking that isn’t true; Blurry textures, horrifying slow down and inflated prices […]
By James “Bassman” Bass Hands up who remembers the Sega Saturn? Now hands up who actually bought the Sega Saturn? Didn’t think so. Back in 1995 there was the release of a (at the time) little known games console dubbed the PlayStation This of course you’ll be aware of. What you won’t be aware of is that just a […]
by James “Bassman” Bass First Encounter Assault Recon; so much more than a cool acronym; in late 2005 it was the only thing I could talk about. Allow me to paint a picture; it’s November 14th-my birthday- and following 2 weeks of absolute hell on a Cypriote army base (don’t ask me why) I return […]
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