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PS3 Game Reviews
GBF's chief area of focus currently is on PlayStation 3 game reviews. Sony's current generation hardware plays host to games across a range of genres, a great deal of which we intend to cover here. PlayStation Network games will also be featured. We will cover everything from the launch titles to up-to-the-minute releases.
PSOne and PS2 Game Reviews
Sony's earlier PlayStation formats are covered in extensive detail. Dating from 1995 onwards, the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 formats have hosted more than 2000 different titles between them, giving a lot of material for PSOne and PS2 game reviews. Though GBF has already published over 150 game reviews charting these two formats, which can be accessed via our search engine and categories on the side-bar, we've still barely scratched the surface, and intend on adding more game reviews to the storied histories of these consoles. As well as reviews, GBF have feature articles,that examine the history of the most celebrated or otherwise noteworthy series of titles to have appeared on the PSOne and PS2 consoles.
Retro Game Reviews
Among the most popular reviews on GBF are those based on retro games. We cover the highs and lows of eighties and nineties gaming and the era when sprites and 2D platformers were all the rage. Retro game reviews are often overlooked critically in the modern media, but we aim to give a broad range of acknowledged classics, obscure gems (and everything inbetween) their minute in the spotlight; the formats currently include the SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis), Super Nintendo (SNES) and SEGA Mega-CD (SEGA CD).
Xbox 360 Reviews
Tom, the main writer, has never been much a fan of Bill Gates's flagship, the Xbox 360, but Dan Moore has one and so hopefully there will be more game reviews for the Xbox 360 shortly when he finds the time. These will be in addition to the solitary Xbox 360 game review at the moment, that being Grand Theft Auto IV. In the pipeline for Xbox 360 reviews are Sonic Unleashed, a game of two halves, and Perfect Dark Zero.
Need For Speed Carbon: Own The City
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Saturday 24 July, 2010
The Need For Speed juggernaut rolled on as popular as ever in 2006 with its tenth instalment Carbon appearing in various guises on more than a dozen formats. Lacking the pyrotechnics of its HD counter... Read More...Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Thursday 15 July, 2010
It seemed odd that a Japanese RPG would publicise a minor cameo from Devil May Cry star Dante extensively on its box-art, especially given just how far removed Lucifer’s Call is from the action ... Read More...Astonishia Story
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Sunday 11 July, 2010
Astonishia Story’s claim to a footnote in history is that it was among the first South Korean developed RPG’s when released for the PC back in 1994. However, the first much of the wider wo... Read More...Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Tuesday 6 July, 2010
Logan’s Shadow is a game that feels so high-production, so meticulously designed and so chocked full of content, that you can’t help but wonder why Sony didn’t champion this adventur... Read More...Crash Tag Team Racing
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Friday 2 July, 2010
Crash Bandicoot seemed to be on an all-too-familiar descent from prominence following the departure of its creator Naughty Dog, with the so-so Nitro Kart and lacklustre platformer TwinSanity failing t... Read More...Dante's Inferno
Written by Tom Clare in PS3 Game Reviews, Tuesday 29 June, 2010
Long-time purveyors of a conveyor belt culture that has seen a slew of frequently-updated incremental sequels, EA have won back a lot of support recently with a concerted attempt to promote new (and s... Read More...WipEout Pulse
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Monday 21 June, 2010
If ever you wanted a textbook example of how not to go about PR, then surely the farcical PS2 release of WipEout Pulse in 2009 is it. Sony’s plan of attack seemed less intent on marketing the ga... Read More...Bayonetta
Written by Tom Clare in PS3 Game Reviews, Saturday 12 June, 2010
Given the praise that Bayonetta was met with and the creative clout behind the project, it’s hard not to feel a little disappointed by the end product. The scores it obtained throughout much of ... Read More...Half-Minute Hero
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Saturday 29 May, 2010
It says a lot for Half-Minute Hero that its warts ‘n’ all homage to the 8-bit era amounts to only a fraction of the games enormous appeal. Beneath its retro veneer is a remarkably creative... Read More...Behind The Sun
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 25 May, 2010
The success of Walter Salles’s 1998 classic Central Station symbolically marked the end of two decades of trauma for the Brazilian film industry. It was the harbinger of a new era of quality fil... Read More...Need For Speed Carbon: Own The City
The Need For Speed juggernaut rolled on as popular as ever in 2006 with its tenth instalment Carbon appearing in various guises on more than a dozen formats. Lacking the pyrotechnics of its HD counter...
Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call
It seemed odd that a Japanese RPG would publicise a minor cameo from Devil May Cry star Dante extensively on its box-art, especially given just how far removed Lucifer’s Call is from the action ...
Astonishia Story
Astonishia Story’s claim to a footnote in history is that it was among the first South Korean developed RPG’s when released for the PC back in 1994. However, the first much of the wider wo...
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