Croshaw usually substitutes the main character or himself with his own avatar, a cartoon man distinguished by a trilby, with other cartoon people in the same style representing the main characters in a video game, celebrities, video game programmers, or friends of Croshaw. His reviews are intended to be humorous with constant usage of puns, analogies, metaphors, and dark humour accompanied by liberal use of profanity.
Subtle references or jokes may be inserted to the visuals for comic effect or to add additional context to the narration. In Zero Punctuation, Croshaw usually reviews a game in a highly critical manner using rapid-fire speech delivery accompanied by minimalistic cartoon imagery and animation on a distinctive yellow background, which illustrates what is being said or provides an ironic counterpoint to it.
Typical Zero Punctuation imagery, illustrating Croshaw's confusion with obtaining spaceship fuel in Starbound Croshaw resumed the series in 2021 in video format. These articles were originally published every Tuesday and often supplemented the previous week's review by discussing a certain topic or trend exhibited by that game. įrom 2009 to 2017, Croshaw authored a column on The Escapist known as Extra Punctuation. These include the video game industry crash of 1983, and the controversial Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Since 2014, Croshaw has dedicated certain episodes to covering events or periods in gaming history that he considered to have disparaged the industry or its reputation. He has occasionally dedicated episodes to new technologies or milestones in video gaming, such as E3 and the coming of the eighth generation of consoles. At the end of every year, Croshaw creates special episodes of Zero Punctuation discussing what he believes were the best and worst games of the year – a practice that started at the end of 2008. Video game developers and publishers have occasionally acknowledged Croshaw's reviews of their games, and at least one internet meme has resulted from Zero Punctuation. Since its creation, the series has become popular in the gaming community. The name "Zero Punctuation" refers to the speed of Croshaw's narration.
Both were well-received and The Escapist was one of several publishers to offer Croshaw a contract. In July 2007, Croshaw uploaded two game reviews in video format to YouTube in the same style that would eventually be used for Zero Punctuation: one of the demo of The Darkness for the PlayStation 3, and the other of Fable: The Lost Chapters for the PC. Prior to Zero Punctuation, Croshaw primarily authored content for his blog, Fully Ramblomatic, and would occasionally review video games, often with an emphasis on humor and criticism.
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