So - I’ve long been a fan of the Conflict series of games. It started out with Conflict: Desert Storm in which you played a team of special operatives (each with their own unique abilities and functions) who performed various missions through the Desert Storm campaign. You had your rifleman, your support (MG), your Sniper, and your Special Assault (Silenced weapons and Shotgun). In general the game was great fun and was made moreso by the ability to play cooperatively with a friend (One controlled the Rifle/Support while the other controlled the Sniper/Assault) (more…)

IO Interactive and Eidos Inc. have provided a variety of extremely good titles for the gaming community. Kane & Lynch was hyped up to be an intense shooter game with a very good storyline and in a sense, it delivers on that promise. But I can’t help but feel slightly cheated by the lack of length to this title. I mean - it’s sensible to assume that a good shooter is going to take a bit of time to get through, but this game took me a whole like…5-6 hours…5-6 hours?! I mean, I know that it’s difficult to put in intense shooter action and not feel like its really dragging on, but there are times where I just have to wonder why it is we cannot seem to get a good 8 hours of gameplay out of these titles that are coming out these days. (more…)