I’ve always enjoyed strategy games. Four X games (expand, explore, exploit, exterminate) can come in many flavours, ranging from fantasy settings (Warcraft) to historical games (Total War) and settings based…
Category: Reviews
Film Reviews: Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Hot on the heels of my Terminator review, comes my review of the sequel (the aptly named Terminator 2: Judgement Day). It’s clear from the start of the film that…
Film Review: The Terminator
Time for another dose of nostalgia. Having recently taken a trip down memory lane with the Jurassic Park franchise, the release of Terminator: Genisys is as good a time as…
Film Reviews: Jurassic World
So some 22 years after the original Jurassic Park film reignited the public’s passion for dinosaurs in a huge way, the film franchise revisits its roots – both within the…
Film Reviews: Age of Ultron
Age of Ultron has a lot to live up to. The first Avengers film was a smash hit, popular with fans and critics alike, and it fed the fanboy in…
Video Game Reviews: The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
Once in a while, a game comes along that defines its generation. A game so brilliant, that to give it 10/10 would be to underscore it. For me, A Link…
Video Game Reviews: Star Fox
Firstly, you might be asking ‘Starwing? I thought you were reviewing Starfox!’ Well, I am, only the game was called Starwing in the UK due to copyright, hence the above…
Film Reviews: Star Trek (2009)
My first film review is a film that proved to be quite divisive within the Trekkie fan base. Star Trek was the film that ‘rebooted’ the franchise, several years after…
Book Reviews: Field of Dishonor
We’re skipping a few Honour Harrington books here to review book four in the series, Field of Dishonor. I should mention, I’m not skipping The Honour of the Queen or…
Apples vs… Androids
Having reviewed my phone (the venerable Samsung Galaxy S4), I thought I would weigh in with my thoughts on the Apple vs Android debate. It can be a thorny one…