The online blog of Simon Halliday
The intended fantasy of a game can be pretty powerful. And sometimes that fantasy is something you didn't even know you wanted. I didn't always know that a game could make me feel like a powerful general, able to conquer their enemies with not just fast fingers but fast thinking. But in 1992, huddled around … Continue reading Dune II
The mesmerising space ship docking sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey captures the wonder of the depth and breadth to which human progress has achieved by its enormous contrast between a scene of early man and its rapid cut to the display and majesty of technological and cultural achievements of spaceflight, music, and communication. Everything … Continue reading Elite: Dangerous
'I selected all, I charged, I failed' is just one of the many maxims I've had to learn playing real time strategy games since my first foray in to them in the early nineties. We've progressed a bit in the last twenty years from the old C&C style of 'how many mammoth tanks can I build … Continue reading Rome II
J.R.R. Tolkien never liked the idea of his books making the transition to the world of screen. You would hope then, that Peter Jackson's trilogy would have dissuaded him from this line of thinking. It breathed life in to an already well-loved set of books and fascinatingly detailed world through the entirely different medium of … Continue reading Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Impressive The announcer's voice rings out like he's perpetually introducing a Michael Bay film. It would have probably given me a whiff of nostalgia too if it hadn't been used and reused so much over the years in various guises (people who make those annoying mods for Counter Strike being a prime example). Back in … Continue reading Quake Live
It's been a long time coming, but finally there is a sequel to Jagged Alliance 2. And I say sequel, when really I mean re-imagining. Jagged Alliance - Back in Action takes you back to the island of Arulco where the evil Queen Deidranna has imposed her tyrannical dictatorship on the local populace and it's … Continue reading Jagged Alliance – Back in Action
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