WORLD - ALL

Why, oh why, oh why?’ is historically how retired people start their titillating letters to Points of View, complaining that Casualty is getting far too sexy or some other such drivel. Having played Swords of Destiny for a few hours you’ll be asking yourself the exact same question. Why, oh why, have I just wasted a small part of my life on this pointless sword-slashing nonsense? Answer: because you’re a fool.

The problems with Swords of Destiny are apparent from the off and almost all revolve around originality (or rather its utter lack thereof).

“>>>>>Click To Read More>>>>>”

Given that Elite is over 20 years old, it’s becoming increasingly tiresome to have to resort to mentioning its name when a new spacefaring game comes out. Yet in the case of Darkstar One we’re duty bound to do so, for on reading through the manual for Ascaron’s space title, the similarities are almost litigious.

You are a young buck starpilot, your father hides a murky past and expires before the game starts, and before you is a universe to explore with systems neatly categorised by their style of government. You can trade drugs, become a pirate, accept missions, raise cash and upgrade your ship with military lasers, missiles and even reach the heady heights of being called ‘dangerous’. If I wasn’t being so selective in my comparisons, you could almost call it spooky.

Assassin’s Creed is going to be one of PlayStation 3’s landmark titles. We’re absolutely confident about that and there’s still a full four months before the PS3 is even released.

Why? Well for one thing, Assassin’s Creed is the latest brainchild of the talented chaps behind both the Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia games. And for another, Assassin’s Creed is a stealth game that takes everything we know about the genre already and blows it out of the water. With an atom bomb. It’s not often we say this, but Assassin’s Creed is a genuinely new concept.

“>>>>>Click To Read More>>>>>”

There are two different sorts of Civ player, and for the sake of international dispute I’ll label them as falling into the categories of the United States outlook and the British outlook. I’m not about to go off on one about foreign policy either, we’re talking mindset here.