Philip Morton
Editor
Bio: I'm the guy who runs things round here, handling the day to day management of the site and all that it entails. Outside of gaming, I particularly enjoy photography, along with writing, music, reading and travel.
Location: UK
Forum alias: Phil
Email: webmaster@thunderboltgames.com
Website: http://www.thunderboltgames.com
Blog: http://www.philipmorton.net
Platforms owned: Xbox 360, Mac
Currently playing: Lots of Xbox Live Arcade games.
Favourite games: The Grand Theft Auto series, Fahrenheit, Manhunt, Brothers in Arms, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Escape to Monkey Island, Football Manager, TimeSplitters, Halo 3, the Total War series, Battlefield 1942, Civilization II, Sid Meier's Pirates!, BioShock, Assassin's Creed
Favourite films: Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix, Groundhog Day, Team America: World Police, The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Donnie Darko, Gladiator, Enduring Love, Casino Royale, Memento, Fight Club, Pleasantville, Braindead, Babel, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, The Butterfly Effect, Rear Window, Se7en
News stories written: 664
Reviews written: 94
Average score given: 7.1809
Features written: 67
Previews written: 19
My features:
- Adventure games: an endangered genre?
- Building the next consoles: design
- Building the next consoles: graphics cards
- Building the next consoles: online services
- Building the next consoles: processors
- Building the next consoles: PVR
- Competition - Colin McRae Rally 3
- Competition - Indy Car Series
- Competition: LMA Manager 2004
- DS fact sheet
- DS image gallery
- EGN and Game Stars Live 2004
- Excuse me but your pixel is showing...
- Football Manager 2005 giveaway
- Future Tactics: The Uprising giveaway
- Game of the Year 2003
- Game of the Year 2003 - Gamecube
- Game of the Year 2003 - GBA
- Game of the Year 2003 - Multiplayer
- Game of the Year 2003 - PC
- Game of the Year 2003 - Playstation 2
- Game of the Year 2003 - Xbox
- Game Of The Year Award - Winner
- Game Of The Year Award 2002
- Game Of The Year Award 2002
- Game Of The Year Award 2002 - Second Place
- Game Of The Year Award 2002 - Third Place
- Game Of The Year awards 2004
- Game of the Year Awards 2007 - part 1
- Game of the Year Awards 2007 - part 2
- Interview: Battlefield Pirates
- Interview: Clash
- Interview: Gamertag Database
- Interview: Men Of Valor High Command
- Interview: NoMoreAOLCDs.com
- Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 giveaway
- Killzone giveaway
- LMA Manager 2005 giveaway
- Miami Vice giveaway
- N-Gage QD impressions
- Pathway to Glory competition
- PlayStation 3
- PSP fact sheet
- PSP image gallery
- Rotten to the Core
- So, which console should I get?
- So, which console should I get?
- So, which console should I get?
- So, which console should I get?
- So, which console should I get?
- So, who visits Thunderbolt?
- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory giveaway
- Survivor
- The future of gaming
- The Game of the Year 2003 is...
- The Gamecube: a console in trouble
- The N-Gage in depth
- The N-Gage in depth
- The N-Gage in depth
- Thunderbolt - an updated illustrated history
- Thunderbolt's birthday giveaway
- Thunderbolt, 2 Years On
- Videogames by numbers
- Vietcong giveaway
- Xbox 360
- Xbox 360 tech specs
My opinion pieces:
My previews:
- Battlefield Vietnam
- Broken Sword III: The Sleeping Dragon
- Brothers in Arms
- Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
- Close Combat: First to Fight
- Enter The Matrix
- Enter The Matrix
- Enter The Matrix
- Enter The Matrix
- Fable
- FIFA 2004
- FIFA 2004
- FIFA 2004
- FIFA 2004
- Haze
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Stubbs The Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse"
- Tony Hawk's Underground
- Xbox LIVE
My latest articles:
-
Grand Theft Auto IV
Xbox 360 review on Saturday 10th May 2008
Welcome back to Liberty City.
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The 'D' word
All opinion on Wednesday 9th April 2008
Why ignorance of the games development process is costing us dearly
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Adventure games: an endangered genre?
All feature on Friday 4th April 2008
Thunderbolt interviews two industry veterans to find out.
My reviews:
- 187 Ride or Die
- Ace Combat: Squadron Leader
- Advance Wars
- Amplitude
- Army Men: Sarge's War
- Assassin's Creed
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
- Battlefield 1942
- Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
- Battlefield Vietnam
- Battlestations: Midway
- Bomberman Tournament
- Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
- Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
- Call of Duty
- Call of Duty: United Offensive
- Codename: Panzers
- Cold Zero: The Last Stand
- Colin McRae Rally 04
- Colin McRae Rally 2005
- Colin McRae Rally 3
- Crimson Skies
- CSI: Hard Evidence
- Dark Age of Camelot
- Destroy All Humans!
- Deus Ex
- Doom
- Driv3r
- Ecks Vs. Sever
- Everquest Online Adventures
- Every Extend Extra Extreme
- Extreme Ghostbusters
- Fable
- Fahrenheit
- FIFA 08
- FIFA Football 2004
- Football Manager 2005
- Football Manager 2007
- Future Tactics: The Uprising
- Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor
- Gothic II
- Gran Turismo 4 "Prologue"
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Halo 3
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Hardware: Online Arena
- Hour of Victory
- Indy Car Series
- Jurassic Park III: Park Builder
- Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
- Manhunt
- March! Offworld Recon
- Medieval: Total War
- Midnight Nowhere
- Midtown Madness 3
- NBA 2K3
- Ninjabread Man
- Painkiller
- Pariah
- Pathway to Glory
- Perfect Ace: Pro Tournament Tennis
- Pocket Kingdom: Own the World
- Port Royale 2
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Tides Of War
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked!
- Rome: Total War
- SEAL Team 6
- Sega Rally
- Serious Sam: Next Encounter
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Siege
- Singles: Flirt up Your Life
- Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
- Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo
- The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past: Four Swords
- The Simpsons: Hit & Run
- This Is Football 2004
- TimeSplitters Future Perfect
- ToCA Race Driver 2
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
- Transport Giant
- Unreal II
- Urban Freestyle Soccer
- Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo
- World Championship Rugby
- World Snooker Championship 2005
- Worms Forts: Under Siege
- WWE Crush Hour
- WWE Smackdown! Here Comes The Pain
- X2: The Threat
- Xbox LIVE