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Graphically Mafia II is also superb, I didn’t spot any screen tearing or flaws whilst I was playing which, given the size 13th trial Hercules and scope of the game, is impressive. That’s not to say there aren’t some flaws and frustrations in the game – I experienced some odd instances of collision detection whilst driving around, including clipping a lampost and dying one minute and then doing a 360 degree barrel roll in my car through the air, crash landing, and walking away uninjured! And then there’s the AI of the cops in the game – completely unpredictable would be an understatement! Whether this was a concsious decision on a part of the makers 2K Games or not I don’t know.

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The Hanger could accomodate 2 V-Bombers at any one time parked in nose to nose from either end. During the winter, it was common practice to carry out V-Bomber “Crew Ins” inside the hanger on Aircraft that were returning to U.K. Right up to readiness for engines start up, Aircraft would then be towed out to the flight Line and started up immediately and away she would go. As you can imagine, this could be a tense time as a lot was going on and deadlines had to be met, but we had got this all down to a fine art, till this one particular winters day.

I’m in two minds over whether the reason for that is the literally patronising one of ‘protecting the children’ or the more generally patronising one that the upper class could be trusted with that kind of thing but the more animalistic and irrational the lower classes might be led astray by it. Either way it’s kind of ironic, given that centuries earlier, the impetus for publishing anything at all in English was to allow the expanding literate population to read the Bible in their own language. An example that springs to mind, because I have it, is the 1957 biography of the notorious medieval Hungarian Countess Erzsébet Bathory, by the surrealist poet Valentine Penrose (nee Hugo).

In the game we play as the character Asbel Lhant, first as a boy then as an adult. As a child he makes mistakes which lead to his feeling of being a failure and leaving his home to become a knight, where he feels he can make a difference. When we leave childhood, which works as an introduction to how to play the game we find Asbel and his friends are now adults and are stronger, with Asbel given the chance to redeem himself for mistakes of the past. More importantly though we also have the character of Sophie who, although she appears to be a normal girl appears to be a lot more than she seems, and even though she originally died in the childhood section of the game magically reappears looking exactly the same, but not remembering who she was, or is, of if she is even this person at all. Ratchet & Clank first exploited this trend way back in the misty days of 2002 on PS2, putting together Ratchet, a cat-like mechanic, and his tiny tin pal Clank for what would become one of recent videogames’ most memorable partnerships. Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma offers an exhilarating and fulfilling action combat game with the freedom to explore and interact in a rich, living and breathing world.

The first thing that strikes you about the game is massive amount of fighters who are available across the weight classes – which apparently numbers around 150; then of course there’s the presentation. Taking part in an in-game fight was just like seeing it on TV, from the introduction of the match, the intro of the fighters and the final winner announcement, it was all exactly like the couple of UFC DVDs I’d seen. Except for the loading times of course… And that’s my only bugbear about the game – the inordinate amount of loading screens and just how long you seem to spend watching them. But there is an obvious reason for this just ask my other half’s stepdad who walked in the room and asked why we were watching UFC.

Originally released in Japan in February 2011 and the US in July of the same year, I originally played the demo of the game that was made available in the US Playstation Store, a demo I fell in love with (pardon the pun) straight away. The heady mix of puzzles, love-sim like gameplay and the strange survival horror aspect of the game made for an intriguing title and I looked forward to the game in earnest. Sadly the road to the UK was not as straight forward as one would have hoped and it is only now, some seven months after its US debut that UK gamers can, thanks to Deep Silver, enjoy the “epic-weirdness” that is Catherine.