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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.
Persona 4
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Monday 8 February, 2010
Atlus’s decision to develop Persona 4 exclusively for the PS2 surprised some, as by the time of the games release in February 2009, the format was entering its ninth year on sale. Lower developm... Read More...Far Cry 2
Written by Tom Clare in PS3 Game Reviews, Thursday 21 January, 2010
Given the sustained popularity of the first-person shoot ‘em up over the last decade and the increasing move towards open world games, it was perhaps inevitable that hybrids of the two would bec... Read More...Medal Of Honor: Vanguard
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Monday 18 January, 2010
Medal of Honor’s fourth and final PS2 outing is a dishearteningly threadbare effort. Vanguard is desperately short on new ideas and content, whilst it’s ageing game engine and misguided em... Read More...MotorStorm: Arctic Edge
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Sunday 3 January, 2010
For a series that many saw as having its chief selling point intrinsically linked to its use of the PS3’s more advanced technology, the retreat of MotorStorm’s third outing to the PSP and ... Read More...Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Friday 9 October, 2009
Square-Enix have spent the best part of the last decade gallantly ignoring cries for a remake of Final Fantasy VII, by busying themselves in virtually everything but. Recent years have seen a number o... Read More...Brain Challenge
Written by Tom Clare in PSP Game Reviews, Wednesday 30 September, 2009
Upon booting up Brain Challenge, I felt the grumpy gaming purist in me beginning to surface, telling me that I should really resent what I was letting myself in for. After all, it’s a title that... Read More...Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Written by Tom Clare in PS3 Game Reviews, Wednesday 23 September, 2009
Having ridden the wave of hype and expectation for a seemingly endless period in the run up to its release, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix appears to have become very much a victim of its circ... Read More...Persona 3 FES
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Wednesday 16 September, 2009
As far back as 1996, it was clear that Persona was a franchise harbouring a significant amount of potential. The PSOne original faired best in its native Japan, though its seemingly endless stream of ... Read More...The Warriors
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Wednesday 9 September, 2009
Off the back of three increasingly gigantic hits from their Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar’s next port of call was something of a surprise – a video-game adaptation of cult 1979 ganglan... Read More...Lost: The Video Game
Written by Tom Clare in PS3 Game Reviews, Wednesday 2 September, 2009
We all know by now that the majority of film-to-game adaptations don’t tend to push the medium all that close to its limits, but an increasing trend of late has been for developers to have their... Read More...Persona 4
Atlus’s decision to develop Persona 4 exclusively for the PS2 surprised some, as by the time of the games release in February 2009, the format was entering its ninth year on sale. Lower developm...
Far Cry 2
Given the sustained popularity of the first-person shoot ‘em up over the last decade and the increasing move towards open world games, it was perhaps inevitable that hybrids of the two would bec...
Medal Of Honor: Vanguard
Medal of Honor’s fourth and final PS2 outing is a dishearteningly threadbare effort. Vanguard is desperately short on new ideas and content, whilst it’s ageing game engine and misguided em...
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