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I was fortunate to guest on the latest TGS Replay alongside Xantiriad, NokkonWud and JohnusMaximus where we discussed Capcom’s zombie-slaying adventure Dead Rising.

Click here to listen to the Replay show.

We also took time to revisit Sensible World of Soccerand look back at some of the video gaming highlights of 2004.

I’d had several aborted attempts at playing Dead Rising before, as I picked it up a few years ago when I bought my first 360. Each time I was thwarted by what I thought was a pretty daft save system.

I kept on re-rolling my character and trying again but each attempt followed the same pattern. I’d get to a point pretty early on in the story where I’d either die helping Brad fight the boss in the food court or I’d complete that section and then die before I got back to a save point. The convicts riding round in their machine gun equipped jeep were responsible for an annoying amount of deaths. Read the rest of this entry »

This month on TGS Replay Xantiriad and I took a look back at Valve’s bargain gaming bucket, The Orange Box.

Click here to listen to the Replay show.

We also took a quick look through some of the games released in 2001 and went through the nominations for March’s Replay (Rainbow Six Vegas, Bully and The Club)

If you’d like to get involved in TGS Replay next month then pop along to The Gamer Scene Forums.

I was recently a guest on the January edition of the  TGS Replay show together with  Dits, Major Lag, Leg of Time, James Batchelor, Ostemb0r and  Xantiriad. We spent almost two hours discussing the strengths and weaknesses of Bioware’s  Mass Effect.

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We also find time to share our gaming highlights of the year 2000 and make the nominations for February’s game of the month.

My game of 2000 was Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force. A strange choice, perhaps, considering the other possible contenders but it’s a game I look back fondly on as being both a decent first person shooter and also a effective (and different) use of the Star Trek license. My nomination for February’s Replay game was Overlord. I don’t think it’s got much of a chance this time round.

If you’d like to get involved in TGS Replay next month then pop along to The Gamer Scene Forums.

To celebrate the launch of The Gamer Scene Xantiriad, Silverfin and myself recorded a special TGS Replay episode looking back at the 8-bit era of gaming. We were lucky enough to be joined by Ratsoalbion of the great GamerDork.net podcast.

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We had a lot of fun recording the podcast and reminiscing about the days of tape cassettes and rubber keyboards. My choices for the trip down memory lane were The Hobbit, Head Over Heels and The Great Escape.

You can find out details of how to play all the games we chose and can post your comments in the 8-Bit retro section of The Gamer Scene forums.

The Cranky Gamers UK Replay show gives listeners a chance to dust off and revisit games released during the early years of the current console generation. Once again I had the honour of joining top podcasters Xantiriad and Dits on the June 2009 episode  where we looked at super-hero button basher Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

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As well as the Replay game of the month we also spent quite a bit of time talking about the development of the Tiger Woods series of games and Nintendo’s Wii Motion Plus.

If you’d like to vote for your preferred game and play along with the Replay crew next month, pop along to the CrankyGamersUK.com forums.