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Killzone Liberation Chapter 5

After a wait of over six months, the final chapter of the Killzone Liberation story became available for free download last week. Having given up on the single player campaign during the span since the game was released, I was spurred on by the arrival of Chapter 5 to get the four chapters that came on the disk completed so that I could play it.

Having been frustrated and stuck for a good while at a boss level in an earlier mission, I didn’t exactly relish the thought of going back to it, though. One of my peeves with game design is ridiculously contrived end of level nasties that force you to trudge through an otherwise simple level in order to get your ass kicked by trial and error at the end.

Unfortunately, it would transpire, that train of thought appears to be the fundamental ethos of game design at Guerrilla Games.

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Virtua Tennis 3 on PSP

I bought Virtua Tennis 3 alongside my PSP Camera a couple of weeks back now, so I’ve put quite a bit of time into the career mode thus far.

Positives are that it delivers quite a fun game of tennis, if a little predictable at times. It can be quite challenging to fathom out what your opponent is doing to counter your tactics and work out an alternative strategy to beat them. Sometimes it’s way too easy, though – even matches against opponents in the top 100 will have them serving to the same places and falling for the same set-up play every time.

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