September 13, 2010 – 10:17 am
Ruse is marketed as a new breed of WWII RTS. One that lets you carefully mull over your orders on a huge tactical board before deploying devious strategies to trick and confuse your opponents. This, unfortunately, is a ruse in itself (sigh – ed). Throughout the Campaign and few skirmishes I’ve played, Ruse has yet to surprise, or indeed impress with anything new. In fact, it feels rather familiar. The campaign, to start, is a normal RTS campaign. You play as Joe – a complete dickhead of a commander coming through the ranks who seems to go out of his…
By Craig Lager
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Posted in Review
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Also tagged Awaited Messiah, Campaign Mission, Devious Strategies, Dickhead, General Nonsense, Genre, Inauthenticity, Military Command, Missions, Multiplayer Modes, New Breed, Normandy, Opponents, rts, Ruse, Ruses, Skirmish, Skirmishes, Starcraft, Tooth And Nail, Voice Work, Wwii
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March 26, 2010 – 11:00 am
Yep, that’s right. She is 100% correct. You no doubt have seen the footage – Tim Ingham, editor of CVG.co.uk, was invited onto the Alan Titchmarsh show to discuss video games and, well…the clip speaks for its self: Resident sexpert Julie Peasgood (previously of Martian Gothic fame, so she is actually an expert on games too) chimed in with her own take about half-way through: “Video games are addictive; they promote hatred, racism, [and] sexism” much to the stunned surprise of Ingham. And rightly so he was stunned, for she had collapsed any argument he might have. I’ll use the…
By Craig Lager
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Posted in PC Gaming Nonsense
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Also tagged Billionth, Climbing The Walls, Cvg, Equal One, General Nonsense, Hallucinations, Hatred, Julie Peasgood, Martian Gothic, Meta Meta, Million Miles, No Doubt, Playing Games, Printed Circuits, Racism, Resident Sexpert, Scrabbling, Screech, Video Games, Wafer
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