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PC Planet gave Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 95% in 2005. I grew up with GTA, played the original on PlayStation, went through London, GTA 2, GTA III and Vice City, and still never particularly liked San Andreas. The opening bicycle sequence is one of the first things I remember about it, mostly because I […]
PC Planet gave Clive Barker’s Jericho 91% in 2007. I played it on Xbox 360 when it came out and returned to it once later. Reading that score now, I can recognise the game the reviewer describes, but I remember being frustrated far more often than I remember enjoying it. The monsters, blood, ruined buildings […]
Xodus is a pretty damn impressive project. An open-source attempt to bring Xbox PC games to Linux, working on the pieces Microsoft has never provided there. I like seeing developers take something that supposedly needs Windows and start pulling that requirement apart. I have spent stupid amounts of time getting Windows software working through Wine […]
Empire Earth II wanted to put most of human history on one battlefield. Fifteen epochs, fourteen civilizations, changing resources, borders, diplomacy, weather and armies that could grow from early warriors into machinery from the future. PC Planet Denmark gave it 85% in 2005. I understand the attraction. I also understand why, after all that ambition, […]
I have seven Hitman games in my Steam library, and I still would not call myself a Hitman fan. Blood Money got some of my time. Absolution got considerably more. I have played a little World of Assassination too, but the older games mostly sit there. Having a series in my collection does not mean […]
