Video Game Reviews, Articles
SPOILERS FOR THE LAST OF US!!! In the second part of our first E3 2018 episode (?!), the monsters look over the offerings during Sony’s conference, including the eagerly anticipated Last of Us 2, the stunning Ghosts of Tsushima and…
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The Monsters dissect this year’s E3 offerings, starting with the House That Phil Spencer is Building – Microsoft.
*Slight audio quality issue* Alan discusses the finer points of surviving an RPG perma-death zombie apocalypse in Undead Lab’s sequel, State of Decay 2, while Paco gives us the lowdown on PSVR MMO dungeon crawler Peta and Lee enjoys his…
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Detroit, God of War and Destiny 2 headline our games we’ve been playing and Lee shares a deep dark Xbox secret. A slightly rushed topic caps off the episode, where the Monsters discuss the super heroes they’d like to see…
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For the first time in what feels like forever, we sit down to talk about the games we’ve been busying ourselves with of. Just threegrown men laying themselves bare on the Internet for your enjoyment. Okay. That sounds weird.
It has been said that all good things must come to an end, and I guess that applies to things that really could have been done in half the time if we hadn’t waffled on quite as much as well…
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As we hurtle towards the conclusion of our frankly epic deep dive on Hideo Kojima’s PS2 masterpiece, the true story of Metal Gear Solid 2 is revealed in our penultimate episode. Lurking just under the surface of the glossy military…
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After an extended absence, the Closet crew return to discuss what games have been preoccupying their time. Alan gives us the low down on the ongoing shambles that is Battlefront II and his new Xbox One X, Paco comes clean…
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The Metal Gear crazy train continues off the rails at speed as we enter hour 5 of our increasingly rambling retelling of the PS2 classic storyline. In this episode, the leader of the terrorists who seized Big Shell is finally…
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As the year of our Lord 2017 wanes, Paco, Alan and Lee ask what gaming offerings remain in their immediate futures. We also catch up with Destiny 2 progress as it enters it’s fourth week, pour over some news items,…
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*SOME AUDIO ISSUES* Our Kojima video game odyssey continues as we delve deep into PS2 classic Sons of Liberty. This episode, Metal Gear authority Paco Rodriguez tells us how Raiden and Snake were inspired by King Kong and Godzilla, what…
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Hour 3 of Paco’s grand retelling of the PS2 game story picks up where we left off last time: with the introduction of the members of Dead Cell. As we push past the veneer of military thriller normality that Kojima’s…
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Our resident Destiny experts, Paco and Alan, discuss their time with Bungie’s limited beta version of the yet to be released MMORPG. The two talk our resident Destiny hater, Lee, through the campaign content and PvP sections, elaborating on gameplay,…
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Paco continues to flesh out the story of the second game in the MGS series, revealing more of the behind-the-scenes decisions and influences that shaped it in the process. Picking up after the events of the PS2 game’s tanker prologue,…
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*SPOILERS* A beleaguered trio of Mass Effect fans bare their souls about Bioware’s troubled successor to the Mass Effect trilogy as Paco, Alan and Lee talk over the ups and downs of a game on the wrong side of internet…
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