Moments in Gaming 1: Cate Archer vs. Isako (No One Lives Forever 2)

  • November 10th, 2009
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No One Lives Forever and it’s sequel are two games that I particularly enjoyed playing. Set in a mid-century spy movie theme you are playing Cate Archer, a top secret agent for an English secret service called U.N.I.T.Y. who has to take down the terrorist organization aptly named H.A.R.M. The two games are very atmospheric and [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 2: “All In” ICBM Launch (CoD Modern Warfare)

  • November 14th, 2009
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is one of the few FPS games that really impressed me. First, it didn’t feature the same overused WWII theme but a refreshing present day scenario, second, it has a very professional feel to it. The graphics are awesome, the gameplay is perfect and characters and dialog are believable. And [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 3: Grager’s Yacht (Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic)

  • November 22nd, 2009
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Back in the days when computer games still required you to use your imagination to play them there was a role-playing game pearl named Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, one of the many scifi-themed RPGs back then which today are only sparsely seeded in retailer shelves. Future Magic was first released for DOS and a port [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 4: Whodunit? (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

  • November 28th, 2009
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While the main quest of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion didn’t attract me very much -- admittedly I haven’t even completed it once to this day -- some of the side quests were amusingly entertaining, particularly the Thief’s Guild and Dark Brotherhood quest series. Both of these feature stories with some pretty twisted plots and [ READ MORE ]

Moments In Gaming 5: Fighting Force

  • February 14th, 2010
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Today’s installment of Moments In Gaming covers the 1997 Playstation game Fighting Force. It was one of those games in the late nineties era of video games where the fresh 3D technology of the Playstation spawned an avalanche of outstanding 3D games. In Fighting Force you play the role of one ruffian (or ruffine) who is [ READ MORE ]