Recent reviews by Capitalist Mandrill

Doctor Who: The Adventure Game, aka Doctor Who: The Easiest Game of All Time, is in fact, the easiest game of all time.

I can't help but feel that Doctor Who has the potential for a good point-and-click adventure series (get on it, Telltale!). Instead, we have this poorly written mess, in which about 90% of puzzles solved by pointing the sonic screwdriver at the obstacle, while the remaining puzzles are so simple they could probably be solved by a drunk toddler.

Most of the game goes like this: move from point A to point B, point sonic screwdriver at something, repeat ad nauseam. There's no challenge, no variety, and no fun.

I might overlook the shoddy design if the stories were interesting. The first four episodes are all very boring. Something something daleks. Something something Cybermen. This is going to be a big call, but I'd rather watch terrible episodes like Fear Her or Daleks in Manhattan on repeat than sit through these again. The final episode, The Gunpowder Plot, was a bit more interesting, although it runs too long.

The voice acting! The actual actors voice their characters! That's gotta give the game some credibility? Nope. Matt Smith delivered his lines with all the enthusiasm of a crusty, old mop. And yet, Karen Gillan somehow managed to be worse than that. The disdain she shows for voicing a video game... it's almost impressive.

Pros:
- Getting all 30 achievements is pretty easy.
- There are no more pros.

I suppose there isn't technically anything wrong with Killing Floor. A lot of people seem to enjoy it, I find it to be quite mundane.

I loved the first three Splinter Cell games. The first Splinter Cell was billed as a Metal Gear Solid killer. As stealth games, both Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell both rewarded patient players, although Splinter Cell had a storyline far more grounded in reality.

The fourth Splinter Cell, Double Agent, went for something a little different. The fifth game, Conviction, went for something completely different, and Blacklist followed. I think that Conviction and Blacklist have turned the Splinter Cell games into a far more trigger happy series, and pumped in the action move cliches. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with that, the Syphon Filter games on the PSX paid lip-service to stealth while throwing action movie cliches at you all the time. And I loved those games.

So while I prefer the original games, I enjoyed my quick run through Blacklist, but I'm done with the main story, and probably won't play through any of the side stuff. The only major flaw is that Michael Ironside no longer voices Sam Fisher.

Blacklist is good, but not full price good, so wait for a crazy special or price drop.

Play this!

This is a very compelling game for what is essentially Bureaucracy: The Game.

The single player campaign is quite short, although it is a very funny spoof of the COD games.