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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Tracks: The Train Set Game
When I was in primary school, one of my friends had a wooden train set and I was jealous. Partly it was just about them being trains, partly the appreciation you understand more getting older of how nice wood is to work with. I...
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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Mothergunship
Triple-jumping over a river of lava as masses of bullets fly past you, dropping towards a robotic turret with both guns blazing – a machine gun/flame thrower/rocket launcher affair in the right hand, blade shooter/shotgun/beam ...
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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Deflection Dimension
Deflection Dimension is actually quite a simple idea for a game, and might have been overshadowed on the show floor at Rezzed where some indie titles are now beginning to look as big and polished as games from big studios. But ...
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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Flipping Death
If gaming has ever taught us one thing, it is that death is an inconvenience rather than a conclusion. So it appears for our protagonist in Flipping Death, whose realisation that she might be dead (the whole “being transp...
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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Dead Cells
A mass of proto-matter drops from the sky, climbs inside a decapitated corpse, and walks away; the first person it meets isn’t surprised in the least. A hands-on session with Dead Cells appears to pose nothing except ques...
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Detroit: Become Human – Hands on Preview
I’m a total sucker for David Cage games… I mean pretty much anything Quantic Dream have put out over the last few years I’ve loved from a personal point of view – don’t get me wrong from a critic’s point of vi...
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Sonic Force – Hands on Preview
Sonic is enjoying something of a revival thanks to the sterling work with Sonic Mania earlier this year. The gorgeously realised 2d update was the sequel to the original trilogy that everyone had wanted for years.
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Etherborn – Hands on Preview
Every year I trawl around the Leftfield area of EGX like a massive toddler – “I want entertaining – entertain me with something new!” is the internal whinge. This used to be true of the Rezzed area too, but unless I...
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Super Meat Boy Forever – Hands on Preview
When the original Super Meatboy was released it was like Team Meat had birthed the mother of all frustrating and super satisfying platformers. Ridiculous precision, insanely addictive and weirdly cute the whole thing just spoke...
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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – King Under the Mountain
At the most basic level, games at Rezzed arrive in one of three states. Some are complete, either newly released or only a few days away from being so, the show floor being good advertising with the thousands of eyes passing th...
