“The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. It came about because of its reputation for frequent and sometimes unintentionally amusing typographical errors, hence the popular myth that the paper once misspelled its own name on the page one masthead as The Gaurdian, though many recall the more inventive The Grauniad. The domain grauniad.co.uk is registered to the paper, and redirects to its website at guardian.co.uk.”

Maybe a Wednesday evening special? Also it would be cool to see you and John in the forums some time.

Yes, flawlessly. Reading through the IGN review, it occurs to me that the reviewer missed the bloody point. The combat “lacks depth” because it’s secondary to the parkour elements. “Trial and error”? Well, yes it is, but why is this a bad thing? Surely there is fun to be had trying to pull off the perfect set of moves to get from point A to B? It’s short, but why does that matter?

The beauty of ME is that it introduces an innovative gameplay mechanism, iterates on it, and pulls it off perfectly. The up/down/turn control scheme is intuitive and elegant. The feel of controlling Faith is the best out there by far. In other words, it does what it does very well. But apparently, every game requires multiplayer, combat and a lengthy campaign.

Plus all the frustration goes away once you get to the speed runs, which is where the meat and the real joy of the game is.

You can decide not to like the type of game it is, but you can’t criticise it for not being the type of game you want it to be. That would be like hating Gran Turismo 4 because you can’t get out and shoot people.