What’s most remarkable about Heavy Rain is that it’s remarkable before you’ve got the controller in your hands. The characters are captured to a higher level of detail than we’ve ever seen in a PS3 game. Every voice you hear, whether it’s someone you can talk to or just someone in a passing crowd, is coming from the lips of a virtual facsimile of the voice actor.
Who would have thought Relentless Software, the folks behind the Buzz! games, were hankering after making an adventure game? Well, turns out it wasn’t such a bad idea, with episodes 1 and 2 of Blue Toad Murder Files becoming available on PSN from 17th December.
It's hard not to love Richard B. Riddick; effortlessly cool, sharply intelligent and a completely homocidal brick shithouse to boot. The sociopathic, silver-eyed, anti-hero of the movie Pitch Black and it's various spin-offs is one of the best Sci-fi characters invented in the last ten years. Which is why it's easy to understand the annoyance felt by XBOX owners when it turned out that the original videogame prequel Escape from Butcher Bay wouldn't work on their shiny new XBOX 360s.
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