Feb 14, 2011

The phrase ‘JRPG hero’ conjures up a certain image in your mind and, whilst I may not have every last detail, I have a pretty good idea of what you’re seeing in your mind’s eye right now. Young, male, probably blonde, sharp hair, almost certainly holding some sort of sword. It’s like I’ve ripped your head open and I’m...

Nov 10, 2010

Format: PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: NCsoft Developer: Paragon Studios Players: MMO Site: http://goingrogue.eu.cityofheroes.com Seeing as the City of Heroes universe is virgin territory for us at Critical Gamer, it may seem odd that we review the six year old game’s latest expansion, Going Rogue. In a convenient coincidence however, the vast majority of...

Nov 1, 2010

What would be in your perfect world? In ours Dubya would never have decided to “help” Iraq (where nobody would ever have heard of Saddam Hussein), it would rain chocolate peanuts, and Ant & Dec would have followed through on a suicide pact many years ago. None of which Perfect World Entertainment can help us with, sadly; but their Director of...

Sep 16, 2010

It’s just been announced that troubled Cops ‘n Crims MMO APB is to close its doors. After a poor critical reception for APB and the later announcement that developer Realtime Worlds had gone into administration, hopes were resting on the game being sold to an outside buyer. It seems that sadly those hopes have been dashed following this announcement...

Sep 10, 2010

Now subscription free, jetpacks, futuristic weaponry… the idea of Global Agenda gets us surprisingly excited for an MMO. After grinding to level 18 by repeatedly slapping passers by in the face, we hunted down Hi Rez Studios’ executive producer Todd Harris and forced him to answer our questions at minigunpoint. CG: Why make Global Agenda an MMO,...