I am not terribly good at bowling, though I enjoy it quite a bit. The running joke on my old bowling league team I was on back in college was that I was our team handicap (four guys throwing around 200 or higher, and me with my rock solid 140……
Read MoreThe first thing you’ll notice about Soccer Up 3D is that its content is disappointingly limited. While it is a downloadable sports game on a handheld, the goal (no pun intended), of delivering a game with an attractive offering means it should feature some substance that will leave the player…
Read MoreIt’s a big year for Cricket. The great Ashes conflict between Australia and England happens this year, in almost back-to-back timeslots – first England and then Australia a few short months later. This won’t mean much to a lot of readers of Digitally Downloaded, but Cricket is a growing sport…
Read MoreDriving back onto the fairway after last year’s shot in the rough. With each year’s new Tiger Woods release, we usually get minor updates to the previous year’s outing. Last year, EA Tiburon rocked the boat by completely overhauling the swing mechanics that fans had grown so accustomed to over…
Read MoreIn 2008, RedLynx released Trials 2: Second Edition on PC, bringing the tough-as-nails “Trials” action that we enjoyed in previous Flash-based games into a full-fledged release. It went on to release multiple Trials titles exclusively on XBLA over the next few years – improving the formula with each new release.…
Read MoreFishing is not the world’s most entertaining activity. With all due respect to the sport, you need to be a special kind of person to be able to sit down all day throwing a wire into the water and hoping that something you can’t see grabs on. I’m a terrible…
Read MoreAfter a couple of hours with NBA 2K13 I realised how little I know about basketball. Here in Australia it’s not exactly a sport that people watch on TV. With minimal experience in watching the sport, I haven’t been able to passively pick up the complex strategies and properly understand…
Read MoreThe FIFA World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event. It actually eclipses the Olympics in terms of overall attendance and viewers. So it makes sense that the greatest investments in sports game development is in soccer. EA’s FIFA Soccer and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) enjoy a relationship where…
Read MoreNo one should ever, ever be forced to play a game as bad as Decathlon 2012. I consider myself to be a casual fan of the Olympics, so a lack of enthusiasm for the worldwide spectacle which this game was obviously released to take advantage of isn’t to blame. It’s…
Read MoreDigitally Downloaded has started doing video reviews! We kick things off with London 2012, and you can expect one or two more per week. What did we think of London 2012? It’s a good, fun game, but it’s not going to surprise anyone – if you’ve played an Olympics sports…
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