What makes a great video game?

Unfortunately the gaming world has become saturated with low quality games. You all know the kind I am talking about - games based on movies, games that badly imitate others and a few more games based on movies! I have been a gamer for a good long time now. Im not as retro as some people but I was around when the SNES and the Mega drive were considered to be the top dogs of the gaming world! The question "What makes a great video game?" immediately screams the word ZELDA at me. I'm a huge nintendo fan and without a shadow of a doubt I believe the Zelda franchise to be a collection of the greatest games ever. Obviously Ocarina of time sits on the top ...  Read the complete review

Stop and think. Some of the best video games were on the older consoles many many years ago. The likes of Jet Set Willy on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, or even Breakout on the ZX81... how I remember playing that for hours. My first memory of computer games was on a Grandstand Games System. Playing Ping Pong, knocking a sqaure dot that represented a ball, with a bat, well a line really. Sound was a beep here and if memory serves me right, the same beep when you scored. Sounds rubbish by todays graphical all singing games, but myself and my family used to spend hours on these games. Are the games of today better? Well, they are certainly more captivating. The ...  Read the complete review

Personally no matter how good the graphics are in this game it still seems to be very generic. Personally for good video game it needs good game play, plot and interesting characters to start. A good sound track helps and makes a big difference to the atmosphere of a game as do good graphics, but a game is nothing without a good plot and interesting characters. It should also be adaptable so you dont have to travel down a specific route and can explore your surroundings i think that was what was so great about the legend of zelda series especially the ocarina of time it seemed to have all the above characteristics above mentioned, the ...  Read the complete review

As far as games go, one must consider the following things: 1. There are too many World War II shooters within the entire first-person shooting range. Why even bother making a WWII shooter when 8 of them are going to be released at the same time as your game, not to mention that 65 of these games are already out on store shelves? Truly, graphics should not mean ANYTHING in this case when video-gamers have gone through World War II so many times that they're starting to recognize the beach levels are looking exactly the same. It is this that needs to die before the designers die from being so lazy on their own work. Allow me to give a suggestion. Instead of ...  Read the complete review

If any game developers are reading this, I am sure some insight should be found from the following views. With the gaming industry now growing faster than ever, most firms within the industry are all too eager to create that new IP that will become the new cash cow. Unfortunately there are far too many sub standard profit driven games and yet people are all too often willing to buy them. The McDonalds of video games, Electronic Arts is a perfect example of this, constantly churning out more rubbish (based directly off market research) to make a quick profit. Peter Molyneux is well known for articulating his desire to achieve the ...  Read the complete review