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• Operation Flashpoint retrospective

• barchetta 05/05/2013

  Gah, stupid iphone keyboard...
  
  Anyway, these games always produced more tension and abject fear than any number of survival horror games.
  
  I often felt like I was running away from danger, or around it, more than being aggresive but it was no less rewarding for it. With the huge expanse to play with it was great to try different approaches to tricky situations.
  
  My PC gaming fell by the wayside many years ago but I did try the Xbox version of the original game. It was probably a stretch to far, with the controller valliantly trying to replicate all the commands and the engine breaking at the seams.... Still a vastly superior effort than the limp reboot which simply sullied the name. Reply +11

• barchetta 05/05/2013

  This always raised more tension and even ear than Reply -2

• Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, a turn-based WW1 strategy game for iOS, announced

• barchetta 02/05/2013

  If it captures some of Cinemaware's 'Wings' vibe then I'll be interested..... Reply +1

• Team Fortress 2 played on omnidirectional treadmill and Oculus Rift

• barchetta 19/04/2013

  @Alterego-X
  
  Yea, I guess Move already has that. If you're going to go the whole hog with an omni directional treadmill then some more imaginative methods for other controls would be interesting too, providing they remain intuitive and responsive. Reply 0

• barchetta 19/04/2013

  Jumping/ducking - add motion control a la kinect and voice commands to swap weaponry. Actually, acting out reaching back over shoulder to swap weapon and acting out interactions eg. doors etc could work.
  
  Not sure about the orgasmatron in the corner of my room though. Reply +4

• Gamer Network partners with Play Expo to bring major gaming event to northern England

• barchetta 09/04/2013

  @SirClive
  
  Cheers for that. Not sure I'll be able to use the ruse of a 'longer than expected' trip to Tesco so I may be going mob-handed. Reply +2

• barchetta 09/04/2013

  Any minimum age restriction? I can steer the kids around some of the less appropriate material (who am I trying to kid) but it has been many years since I visited a show - maybe Earls Court in the early 2000s (!). Am I in for a rude awakening or a warm all-enclusive EG welcome? Reply 0

• Code Britannia: Sandy White

• barchetta 08/03/2013

  Great article! Loved this on my C64.
  
  One point. I'd put 3D Monster Maze as an earlier version of survival horror (ZX81) - now I am showing my age!
  
  /All this was fields before... etc. etc. Reply +3

• Watch the BAFTA Game Awards live on Eurogamer

• barchetta 05/03/2013

  Played Journey through with, I'm pretty sure, one person (got some sort of longterm fellow traveller trophy) right through to completion and then sat there for some time revelling in the afterglow.
  
  Never played it since. STILL my Game of the Year. Left more impact than anything else I've played.
  
  Fallout 3 still my favourite of this gen though. Reply +5

• Another 164 Blockbuster stores are closing down

• barchetta 13/02/2013

  Well, looks like my local stores are staying open. Good luck to them. Reply 0

• barchetta 13/02/2013

  Both of my local stores have really decent staff - in fact just bought a wireless pad last night. I'd gone in the night before and found they only had one in the other store. Assistant offered to bring it over for the following evening as she passes the other store on the way to work. Thought that was pretty decent really.
  
  Shame, it's generally the ground troops that pay the price of crazy management pricing decisions. Reply +4

• Watch us play Aliens: Colonial Marines from 5pm GMT

• barchetta 12/02/2013

  They don't pay you enough to be playing this for others' entertainment! Reply +4

• Alien retrospective

• barchetta 10/02/2013

  Played this so much on C64 but never perfected the outcome. I would play with headphones on, mainly to shut out any peripheral noise and focus on the game. One family gathering, I was sat immersed and let out a scream (I was 13 at the time) and it nearly gave my Gran a heart attack. I can still see the panicked looks of the family rushing to help the ashen faced old dear!
  
  Excellent spiritual successor to 3d Monster Maze.
  
  Alien Resurrection on Ps1 was the only other Alien game that really did a good job of ramping up the tension. Reply +12

• Warren Spector's Junction Point shuttered

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  This news lands in the middle of the Disney Infinity launch hype.... classic bad news distraction policy.
  
  Not surprised, though saddened, since the last game really took a hammering. What could have been a fruitful partnership never blossommed really. Reply 0

• New Rebellion PC game out on 14th Feb, but what is it?

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  @StooMonster Think you are on the money. Inverted pentagram, parts of the Reich's fascination with the occult... Some sort of Supernatural sniper? Or a lone sniper sent in to infiltrate/eliminate the occult loving nazi ranks?
  
  Hmmm... Yet to be convinced these would be worth making tbh. Reply +1

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  Rebellion are sat on so much potential it is amazing and depressing that they can't seem to pull their head out of their arse and get crackin'
  
  Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper would be enough to provide generations of fun! Reply +3

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  @evilashchris Would be nice actually, though the video needs a transport cafe vibe and a sawn-off to convince me! Reply 0

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  I still have my Judge Dredd ZX Spectrum adventure game opus around on a old C-30 somewhere.... Penned by my own feverished adolescent hand in the mighty 'The Quill' adventure creation software.... Reply +1

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  @evilashchris
  Heh, now you are showing your age! :) Reply 0

• Facts and figurines: Is there more to Disney Infinity than a Skylanders clone?

• barchetta 29/01/2013

  Oh shit.... Managed to keep the kids off the Skylanders bandwagon - even with the peer pressure. But this? Sure, it probably wouldn't have taken this guise had it not been for Skylanders but if it gets the various elements right then it could be unstoppable.
  
  /starts saving. Reply +6

• The next set of LEGO games is for brand new universe "Legends of Chima"

• barchetta 02/01/2013

  Lego are also releasing some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle kits.
  
  I'd half expected, in the pause until an inevitable Hobbit based game that they would fill the gap... Reply 0

• Eurogamer Christmas update plans

• barchetta 21/12/2012

  Good work this year!
  
  Have a mince pie on me. Reply +1

• UK Xbox 360 gamers get Kinect title Wreckateer free for 48 hours

• barchetta 15/11/2012

  That's the kid's Christmas present sorted then! :D Reply +3

• Freedom Fighters retrospective

• barchetta 11/11/2012

  Or Rogue Ops..... But not Rogue Warrior.
  
  /shudders
  
  
  Just checked the 360 bc list and FF is NTSC only :(
  Rogue Trooper is OK on PAL though! Reply -1

• barchetta 11/11/2012

  @Uberheertje
  
  Yes, Freedom Fighters was great and it would be great to revisit, but do you mean Rogue Trooper and not Rogue Warrior? Reply +4