http://www.makethisgame.com Encouraging new game ideas that take advantage of todays technologies Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s been a while since my last Blog, and I knew it would take something really big for me to get the finger out and put pen to epaper. I was a huge fan of the Thief series. The first game created the genre "First Person Sneaker". The main character was ... http://www.makethisgame.com/thief-to-return-new-thief-gamethief-4/ I’ve been playing or better say grinding away at WoW in my spare time for last year or so. I had played it for months then lost interest (surprised?) but have since taken it up again. Due to the siesta in gaming with it I’m not an uber high level ... http://www.makethisgame.com/world-of-warcraft-crafting-made-redundant/ Having "battled" through a Travian sever I am well aware of just how competitive it can get as the game draws to a close (The End Game). I saw cheating on a grand scale. Players with multiple accounts. The GF Meta alliance even went as far as to hack into ... http://www.makethisgame.com/travian-plus-have-you-any-gold-buying-the-end-game/   If your in anyway into your console RPG's, you'ed of realized as i have that up to now the Xbox 360 really hasn't unleashed many jems in the genre. Sure we had Oblivion but outside that the rest were sub-par at best. Blue Dragon, Enchanted Arms, Eternal Sonata, these games ... http://www.makethisgame.com/mass-effect-game-of-the-year/ Its finally arrived, after months and months of drooling over screenshots, gameplay vids and developer interviews Assassin's Creed hits Xbox 360 and PS3 with the PC version to come early 08.But was it really worth the wait? Simply put, NO!. How can a developer take such a beautiful engine, intriging ... http://www.makethisgame.com/119/ NWN was a must for any fans of the RPG genre, the successor to the superb Baldur’s gate series and long forgotten, eye of the beholder classics. Full 3D view and slick interaction justifiably made it the flagship for next generation RPGs. NWN II was initially staggeringly in its depth ... http://www.makethisgame.com/never-winter-nights-ii-%e2%80%93-mask-of-the-betrayer-blog-review/ [poll=5] Well the most hyped game of all time has come and gone in a few short days!!! Crysis, the proud creation of German Developers Crytek had promised to "Bring PC Gaming Home". Flaunting "next-gen" graphics and an action packed story line....is this the PC game to rub in the faces ... http://www.makethisgame.com/crysis-review-pc-gaming-has-a-new-poster-boy/ Crysis wood physics bug At the moment i'm playing my way through the full game, and im happy to report I have not found any physics bugs like this in the final release of the game. So far I have only seen a gun get stuck in a wall and make ... http://www.makethisgame.com/crysis-physics-bug-cryengine-2-bug-crysis-water-bug/ Opposing Fronts Review Having downloaded from Steam and had a few technical frights with the horrid “game is currently unavailable”error, I was very excited about playing the follow up to the best game of 2006. Like Dawn of War (DOW - another Relic title), it seemed very hard to improve on ... http://www.makethisgame.com/opposing-fronts-coh-company-of-heroes-add-on-pack/ It’s been known since Valve announced the release of Half Life Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 that a new type of game “Portal” would make it’s presence known. I got the orange box only the other day and I am amazed at what they have done. Plot Aperature Science is the ... http://www.makethisgame.com/portal-half-life%e2%80%99s-mod-which-has-become-a-whole-separate-entity/