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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories = Shattered Gameplay?, 27 Oct 2010

I like the Silent Hill games series and was therefore looking forward to Shattered Memories on the PSP.

It follows the usual Silent Hill model and is driven by its story which I found very engaging and kept me hooked meaning I'd completed it in about 3 days.

I found the puzzles to be much simpler in this game and the "keys" for doors always seemed to be very close to the locked door. So this wasn't quite as enjoyable as previous games.

The mapping system has changed with a mobile phone being used to provide the map. This didn't pause the game and therefore was not of much use to my style of play. Also it required to many button presses to bring up a full… Read more

I might even buy a Mac after this Ipod!, 28 Aug 2009

I have always had an aversion to apple products, but I needed a large capacity MP3 player and Creative's customer service let me down badly so I decided to by a 120gb Ipod Classic. I was a bit worried about having to use Itunes and about the potential skipping problem I've seen in some reviews.

Well importing my existing MP3s and WMA (ones without DRM) worked flawlessly. I noticed some tags needed to be updated so I did that on an external programme, deleted then reloaded them on itunes and the next synce I thought had failed as it didn;t transfer the songs. But no, it transfered the new tag info, just not the whole files. Getting album art was also a doddle, although a… Read more

PS3 Dual Shock 3 review, 23 May 2009

What can be said about the Dual Shock 3 Controller?

I would say that Sony make the best designed controllers in the world. Ever since the analogue stick were added to the original Playstation controller there really isn't much room for improvement.

I had a couple of Sixaxis controllers for my PS3 and decided to upgrade to a Dual Shock 3 as I needed another controller.

The new controller is slightly better, but only slightly. The control of games is exactly the same, the Sixaxis motion is exactly the same, so they are excellent, but no improvement.

The weight of the controller is slightly greater, not that noticeable but to be honest I prefer the… Read more