Metal Gear Solid 3 HD. COMPLETE. Oh and... InFAMOUS: Second Son. COMPLETE.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD

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What a thrill!

I had never played MGS3 before I received the HD collection for free on PS+; but my God am I pleased that I was able to experience the series. The entire game felt like a B-Movie style spy flick - along with all the characters, aesthetics and dialogue that make an MGS game an MGS game. The game adds so many mechanics that make it unquestionably entertaining and hits the nail on the head by imposing the feeling of being a spy behind enemy lines that needs to survive at any cost.

That's not even touching the surface; I honestly have no idea how to tackle the write-up of this game. It's going to be my biggest challenge yet!

InFAMOUS: Second Son

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Now to be fair, this never really made it into my "backlog" as I was so excited for the third entry into one of my favourite series on the PS3.

Let's just say that the leap to next-gen has begun very well, but was not without sacrifices in some departments. I thoroughly enjoyed it though, but it left me clawing for more.

Expect a review of it soon!

LGS Gaming Marathon - Charity, Progress and Too Much Food

On Saturday 22nd March, I attended a 24 hour charity gaming marathon hosted by the University of Lincoln Gaming Society (LGS). It was set up to raise money for "Child's Play"; a great cause I support myself every year through Extra Life as it makes such a difference for seriously ill children worldwide.

I took along my PS3 and a disc copy of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, as well as all of the downloaded PS+ Titles I had on the Hard Drive. My intent was to play through Far Cry 3 and start to play Dragons Dogma, however like the best laid plans, these went completely out of the window in reality.

Initially I played through Far Cry 3 for 9 hours until I realised just how similar each hour felt; a symptom of having such a large, open world environment with not much in the way of structured activities. Sadly I won't be going back to it as part of the backlog - I had my fill and felt content that I didn't want to progress any further.

Post Far Cry, I played through Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from start to finish, relishing every second of it. An amazing narrative driven experience without a single word of English being said throughout. The way that the various game mechanics are used to convey emotion and impact is near inspirational, as well as the actual gameplay being fun. I'll write a full review for it soon.

There were about 40 people in attendance, if not more which was great to see as there was such a variety in terms of games being played. So many tastes were at work and it showed me just how many games I had missed out on by buying so many and playing them.

The then hilarious part of the amount of people in attendance, was when we ordered pizza from Dominos. One of the organisers put the worker on the phone on loud speaker, ordered around £650 worth of pizza and then informed him of our valid 50% off voucher. To be fair the guy laughed it off and got a huge round of applause, but sleep deprivation is a damned thing and worked wonders for my appetite for humour and Italian food.

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Garlic and Herb crust dip - THE best invention ever?

I then started a playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, however I sadly only made it 18 hours into the marathon before my old age kicked in and made me so tired and grouchy that I had to leave, meaning that I only got a few hours into R. A. Salvatore's world before having to give up and go home for much needed sleep.

Overall, it was a great event and I got to meet some amazing people who were all working together to raise money for children who need as much help as they can get, I made some great progress on my quest to destroy my backlog and my only thing to write about and ended up managing to raise £123.45 as a group. Interestingly precise!

Who said video games were all bad?

Borderlands 2. COMPLETE.

After a very long time, my co-op playthrough of Borderlands 2 as the Psycho class is finished!

It was a wild and exciting ride from start to finish - I'm very much looking forward to doing an extended review of my time with it; clocking in at around 40 hours with nearly every side quest complete (DLC not included)

Just before I write the review however, I'd strongly advise anyone reading this to find a friend that wants to play it with you and buy it ASAP. A great title in many, many ways!

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Catherine. COMPLETE.

Wow.

Just wow.

What the hell did I just play?

I think it was a game about a man cheating on his girlfriend and then having a dream that he's a sheep that has to stack blocks to prevent falling to his death every night.

Not even scratching the surface with that.

I'm not even sure what I felt about this title, so I'm going to take a day or two so that I can gather my thoughts on it, then I'll do a write up.

On to the next one!

The Last of Us. COMPLETE.

So after the second attempt at finishing this game, I've done it.

The credits are rolling as I type this and my feelings about this title are so very mixed. It's going to be interesting to see what I think of it as I write it up.

I'm just amazed and proud of what the video game industry can do for story-telling. Shame about the actual game in this case.

Expect a review by the end of the week.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Directors Cut. COMPLETE.

The first of many victories has been achieved!

Possibly one of the best games I have played is no more.

I'm beginning the full write-up tonight so it is with great regret that I must say:

Deus Ex is dead. God save Deus Ex.

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