Gearoid Reidy Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Interviews

The League of Cyber Nations

War. What is it good for? In the world of Cyber Nations, quite a bit, actually. Cyber Nations is currently the most active ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorJune 25, 2007

Cutscenes at 11

The Great Gaming Moral Panic

With apologies to Gandhi: First they ignored gaming, then they laughed at gaming, then they fought gaming. Then gaming won. Like every new ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorJune 12, 2007

Op-Ed

Kid, You Shouldn’t Be In Pictures

The announcement last week of a movie based on The Sims was greeted with understandable puzzlement by the gaming community. Games with almost ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorJune 5, 2007

Reviews

Review: Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

Once upon a time, the release of a new Final Fantasy game was an event. One of those childhood-defining moments when children, and ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2007

Op-Ed

Knowing Your Enemy

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherf—er in ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2007

Op-Ed

The Mother of Reinvention

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I didn’t think I would live to see the day the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could dare to show ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2007

Reviews

Review: Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village

I fancy myself as a natural gamer – I can pick and play pretty much anything going and be cruising after five minutes. ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2007

Op-Ed

What’s the Story?

Just under a year ago I wrote my first article for The Escapist, bemoaning the state of story, character and dialogue in gaming, ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2007

Op-Ed

Guns. Not So Many Guns.

Futurism is a dangerous science, but here’s an interesting experiment at Pointless Waste of Time – the 12 best games of 2010. While ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorMarch 1, 2007

Sega!

The Streets of Japan

“I walk the streets of Japan ’til I get lost,” sang Audioslaves’s Chris Cornell, “because it doesn’t remind me of anything.” Obviously, Cornell ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2007

Op-Ed

Yakuza 2: Enter the Dragons (*)

If there’s one label that’s misplaced in gaming, it’s “mature.” There is nothing so deeply ironic as gamers wishing a given console had ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorFebruary 15, 2007

Op-Ed

Reward Card 2: Quick and to the Pointless

Like many gamers with more money than time, or sense, my PSP has been slowly gathering dust since the pre-Christmas console rush. In ...

By Gearoid Reidy Legacy AuthorFebruary 1, 2007

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