Armed to the teeth with an impressive array of weapons and abilities, the game pits the player against all manner of extra-terrestrial creepy - crawlies; and whilst it looks and feels like a platformer from a bygone era, Axiom Verge has been designed with
modern gaming in mind, even offering the player the opportunity to manipulate the world through the kinds of unintentional glitches that affected its ancestors.
Not exact matches
When it was announced
in 2013 that Gearbox, the studio who had acquired the rights to Homeworld after THQ went bankrupt, would be not just re-releasing but also remastering the game for
modern systems, it's fair to say certain sections of the
gaming world lost their collective
minds, myself included but before that, for those of you who are new to this, just what is Homeworld?
The one thing I really hate
in modern gaming is loading times — I don't
mind it if a game takes a while to start up but then it runs great, or if we have the occasional few seconds here or there — but Monster Energy Supercross seems to take a little too long to load up.
With this
in mind, they decided to do a full remake, rebuilding the game systems to suit
modern tastes and using current
gaming technology to recreate the world of VII.
In my
mind this is the best portable retro
gaming system for the person who just wants to play and experience some of the best games made over the last 30 years, and you also get to own possibly the best current handheld system with many great
modern games still to be released for it.
But before gamers go crazy and start spreading false rumors and say the
gaming business is bigger than film, keep
in mind that
Modern Warfare 2 sells for at LEAST $ 60 and a movie ticket
in 2008 was $ 7.18, according to boxofficemojo.com.
Which,
in turn, has led to this, perhaps the most retro -
minded and stubbornly archaic JRPG we've played
in years — but proof that this sub-genre is still relevant
in modern gaming.
Those games destroyed friendships more than built up a fun, party - like atmosphere Also, they required some
gaming skill whereas the
modern titles are created often with non-gamers
in mind.
The KeyOne may not be built with
gaming in mind, but I was able to play
Modern Combat 5 without any lags or stutters.