This month in… 2011

1 Was Battlefield 3 “the saviour of shooters” as our coverline suggests? In hindsight, no – it’s debatable if shooters even needed saving. Still, while it lost some of the hardcore PC roots of Battlefield 2, this was still a fine entry in DICE’s shooter library. And was a more enticing prospect than Dead Island’s promise of “zombies in bikinis”. 2 ”Adventure games suck,” states Richard Cobbett, no doubt triggering a load of complaint letters. But his point stands that the early 2010s was a bad time for the genre. 3 It’s always a good time when Tom Francis writes about immersive sims, and this issue’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution hands-on is a treat. Tom gets three hours with an early build of the game, stacking crates to traverse levels,…

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