Why I'm not buying into the early Battlefield 3 hype

833d ago ... Battlefield is a long running series from Swedish arm of EA, DICE. Unlike most people on N4G, I'm a true Battlefield veteran, having played every retail release (as well as the F2P games and 1943). With Crytek apparently having dropped the ball for the PC release of Crysis 2 (a claim I find ridiculous despite the obvious console spec PC demo), many are turning towards DICE, hailing them as the...

Killzone 3 MP Beta Impressions

864d ago ... I'm going to level with you guys, I come into the KZ3 beta without being in any way hyped about the game and having not been entirely pleased with KZ2's campaign or online. What I had seen of this game from the close beta looked quite good to me, but certainly not ground breaking. As I intended to do a review of the OB, I decided to jot down some notes during the course of my time with it. This...

Data comparison: Crysis 2 vs Killzone 3 vs Bulletstorm

869d ago ... Crysis 2, Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm are all games coming out over the next one to two months, and are all recieving quite a lot of hype from gamers. But which game is recieving the most attention? Firstly looking at preorders from VGChartz and Amazon (US and UK). Based on VGChartz data, Bulletstorm is the clear leader here, with the Xbox 360 version (@ 93742) alone only narrowly being trump...

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West PS3 Demo Impressions

993d ago ... Enslaved has received a fair few of positive previews in the last couple of weeks, so I decided to check it out for myself when they released a demo onto the PSN the other week. The download is a bit over 1GB. The demo is pretty short, but I believe it does provides an overall representation of what te full game will be like when it releases next week. First up, I didn't enjoy it. The dem...