Halo & COD collection rumours

master_chief_in_halo_4-1920x1200

This week has seen a couple of big announcements in the gaming world. Halo 5: Guardians has officially been revealed and with that comes the rumour of a Master Chief Games collection, thought to include Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4, remastered for the Xbox One. More recently, a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare collection has also been ‘leaked’ on Reddit as being created for the next generation consoles. Continue reading

Game of the Week (GOTW): Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-box

So this week’s GOTW is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (COD: MW2). The Call of Duty franchise is one of extreme popularity and in many cases this has made the games feel a little bit generic. Each game has a very similar feel to it as people like the familiarity as it is a game they can trust, it is one of the reasons I love Halo, it is a little bit different.

But MW2 was and still is a brilliant game. Following on from the incredible Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which was a complete game changer in the COD series, MW2 explores further the depths of modern war gaming and quite frankly took it to a new level, but not too far as I thought MW3 did. (I simply wasn’t that impressed by MW3, it didn’t come with the same awe as MW and MW2, and I ended up playing Black Ops more!) Continue reading

Summer of Gaming…

photo (2)

It is such a big year for gaming with a lot of awesome games coming out over the summer and October/November time and obviously the new consoles to be released, with more details to be confirmed at E3 starting tomorrow. So I decided that with all this excitement to come, I need to complete and play through some of the games I already have. So the summer of gaming begins.

Having just finished my first play-through of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, I realised that I have so many things I need to do on my different games.  Continue reading