Forging onward with a passion for retro gaming and all the atounding things we find in today's
modern gaming world with direct connections to games we loved 40 years ago!
While the game does lack a few extras that could pad it out into something larger - such as extra modes — and the online matchmaking could do with some work, MvC3 manages to bring the madness of its predecessor into
the modern gaming world with a much - needed update.
Not exact matches
The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First
World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought
with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and
gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building
modern Britain.
This week the crew brings you the latest on
gaming with Band Hero, Need for Speed: Nitro, Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier, Excitebike:
World Rally, and an in - depth look at Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 2
with surprising results.
The console's been in our hands for quite a good amount of time now, I've spent the last few days playing games and testing the OS, together
with pouring all of my
gaming efforts throughout the weekend and yesterday on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — which is definitely great both when it comes to watch it and play it, unlike any other
modern open
world game out there.
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.
Elite: Dangerous Elite: Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing
gaming's original open
world adventure to the
modern generation
with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative, and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.
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.
A Link Between
Worlds looks and plays like the 2D Zelda games of years past (e.g. the original Legend of Zelda, the Oracle games and A Link to the Past, which ALBW is a sequel to), except
with shiny 3D graphics of
modern gaming.
Elite Dangerous brings
gaming's original open -
world adventure to the
modern age
with the 400 billion star systems of the real Milky Way Galaxy, re-created in its full galactic proportions.
Sometimes you just want a bit of classic genre
gaming — a straight - up open
world RPG
with plenty of things to do and choices to make, perhaps sprinkled
with a few unobtrusive
modern twists, and beautifully presented.
A Link Between
Worlds provides
modern twists whilst keeping
with the classic
gaming formula and is, hence, a very good mix of both new and old.
You can catch the full list of award winners from the 28th Annual Golden Joystick Awards below: * Action Game of the Year sponsored by Nuts — Assassin's Creed II, * ITN Game On Shooter of the Year — Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 2, * Racing Game of the Year in association
with T3 — Forza Motorsport 3, * RPG of the Year in association
with GamesRadar — Mass Effect 2, * Puzzle Game of the Year in association
with NGamer —
World of Goo, * Fighting Game of the Year in association
with Official Nintendo Magazine — Super Street Fighter IV, * Sports Game of the Year sponsored by Mousebreaker.com — FIFA 10, * Strategy Game of the Year in association
with PC Gamer — Plants vs. Zombies, * Music Game of the Year in association
with Total Film — Guitar Hero 5, * Online Game of the Year sponsored by Game Gears — League of Legends, * Downloadable Game of the Year sponsored by Green Man
Gaming — Plants vs. Zombies, * Habbo.com Portable Game of the Year — Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver, * Soundtrack of the Year in association
with Metal Hammer — Final Fantasy XIII, * MSN One to Watch — Call of Duty: Black Ops, * UK Developer of the Year in association
with Edge — Jagex, * Ultimate Game of the Year in association
with GamesMaster — Mass Effect 2.
With three
Modern Warfare games, the two Black Ops titles, three entries in the main Call of Duty line and one spin - off (Call of Duty:
World at War), you wouldn't be wrong if you called it one of the biggest franchises in all of
gaming.
Meanwhile, in the
modern world of videogames,
with increasing emphasis on the multiplayer side — which brings the need to communicate
with team - mates — a
gaming headset is fast becoming a necessity.