Earlier in the year, I planned to do a whole ‘season’ of video reviews on football games I used to quite enjoy, you know, with the World Cup fast approaching. That series didn’t transpire as I would have liked it to, but I did produce two reviews which I suppose constitutes a mini-series. The first of these dates back to the end of May and was recorded, edited and uploaded within the same day –I don’t think I’ve done that again until just yesterday, actually– so expect the odd factual inaccuracy here and there.
This ‘Roland’ person, also a flea and a rat(?) in later outings, takes on the role of Indiana Jones in an attempt to raid the tombs of Tooticarmoon [sic]. Will he succeed? Well, with me as his guide, he has absolutely no chance. Might still be fun to watch this video, though.
Right, time to catch up with some of the game reviews I’ve been producing and/or uploading of late.
This particular video was recorded when I had time to load up my Mega Drive again, but evidently not enough to play through the game. Thank goodness for cheating, or should I say the Internet, from which I pinched a simple final level code. Yup, I lost the little bit of paper I wrote passwords on – you know, the one you always put in the box with the manual.
From the second half of last year — couldn’t tell you when exactly, but it explains the ’2009′ note at the end of the video for you.
Commentary is a bit cardboard, so forgive me for that. In fact, don’t: call me a rip-off hack with no skills or talent whatsoever.
This project is quite significant in that it was my first ever attempt at fashioning some sort of video game critique in the form of a video. It didn’t really take long, just a few days – in my opinion the perfect length for such a review, anything longer and you start reading into things too much. Besides, this is a very simple game I played a lot when I was younger, so it wasn’t that hard to pick up and get into again.
The reason it wasn’t ever uploaded until this week is because I couldn’t quite get the audio right. In the end I decided to go with a take from 2008, one recorded with a horrible microphone. However, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the hissy bits have been removed and it doesn’t sound quite as bad! Having said that, I still had to paste a bit of music over the top to plug the awkward silence left since the background noise departed.
This is a ten minute cut of a much longer review come commentary that started life as just another explosion compilation. In it, The Yak offers his opinions on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PS2. What’s in this version can be considered more of a review, with actual commentary on gameplay and fun things to do in the game… namely blowing stuff up.
