I feel the need, the need for speed...
THE Need For Speed series lost its arcade crown to the Burnout games a whole console generation ago.
View ArticleJames Bond 007: Blood Stone
THANKS to financial woes at MGM there won’t be a new James Bond movie this year. Filming is due to start shortly, but so much work goes into a blockbuster these days that the next Bond adventure won’t...
View ArticleDead Space 2
IF YOU'RE a nervous type I advise you to walk on by - there's nothing to see in Dead Space 2. At least, there's nothing that won't give you nightmares.
View ArticleBrink
DESIGNING a first-person shooter is a thankless task these days. We’ve had so many in the past ten years it’s tempting to believe there’s nothing new to be had from the genre.
View ArticleLA Noire
THE Sega Mega-CD was the first games console to claim its software could place a player in a virtual world that was indistinguishable from a film.
View ArticleCars 2
DESIGNING a film tie-in is a thankless task. If it’s a kids cartoon, you’ll inevitably end up with a 3-D platform adventure and every critic will compare it (unfavourably) to the classic Mario 64.
View ArticleNeed For Speed: Most Wanted
RACING fans will have sweaty palms at the prospect of a game that combines the crash mayhem of Burnout with the superb asphalt action that has made the NFS series such a success.
View ArticleFootball Manager 2013
THESE are the games you can lose your life to. The annual release of the new Football Manager generally signals the signing off of a week’s holiday by FM veterans to allow it to consume them, while...
View ArticleGame Of The Week: Assassin’s Creed III
IF there’s a game that has perfected the art of tying time travel into relentless action adventures, it’s Assassin’s Creed.
View ArticlePrince Of Persia
A RE-INVENTION of a classic early title, Prince of Persia, has split the gaming community down the middle.
View ArticleRise Of The Argonauts
FOR me, Jason and the Argonauts brings back memories of giant gold statues, fighting skeletons and a dodgy bloke playing King Neptune from the film of the same name enlivened by Ray Harryhausen's...
View ArticleLord Of The Rings: Conquest
PANDEMIC, the team behind Lord of the Rings - Conquest, had a tough task juggling the demands of To lkein's books with the expectations of people who have only seen the films.
View ArticleHouse Of The Dead: Overkill
ANYONE who thinks the Nintendo Wii is strictly for kids will get a rude awakening - in more ways than one - if they ignore the 18+certificate attached to this gory shoot 'em up.
View ArticleNerf: N-Strike
ON-RAILS shoot 'em ups are obviously a bit like buses: you wait ages for one to turn up, then two arrive at once.
View ArticlePirates Hunt For Blackbeard's Booty
THE Xbox has its shoot 'em ups, the PS3 has its racers, but Nintendo pretty much has the family audience demographic boxed off.
View ArticleHalo Wars
THE Halo universe is ideally suited to a strategic action game, with its epic worlds at war storyline and back story rich in detail.
View ArticleBig Bang Mini
A FAST-paced, shoot-'em-up which offers a fresh perspective on the classic arcade game-play epitomised by RType.
View ArticleHenry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
Publisher: Electronic Arts Format: Nintendo DS Price: £19.99
View ArticleResistance: Retribution
WHAT would you do if you had been forced to kill your own brother to prevent him becoming a monster?
View ArticleGodfather II
THE first Godfather was rather good but, arriving in the twilight days of the PS2, it failed to set the gaming world alight. Now EA is back for a second stab on the PS3 and X Box 360.
View ArticlePPL Paintball Championship
HERE’S an innovative take on the jaded first person shoot- ’em-up genre – a paintball simulation that uses the Wii’s motion sensitive controls to accurately recreate the thrill of sneaking around with...
View ArticleBlue Dragon Plus
IT'S no surprise that Nintendo's DS has become the home for Japanese role-playing games. After all, more than 25 million consoles have been sold in Japan.
View ArticleSherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
THE DS has become the de facto home for hand-held versions of classic puzzle games. Now Ubisoft unleashes a new version of a PC classic starring the greatest detective of them all.
View ArticleX-Men Origins: Wolverine
UNLIKE the film from which it takes inspiration, Wolverine the game doesn't shy away from the violent potential of a character with razorsharp claws.
View ArticleFuel
BEYOND the artificial confines of a race track, the holy grail for racing games is the kind of open world free-roaming environment that makes the Grand Theft Auto series such fun.
View ArticleIndiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings
IF YOU thought Harrison Ford was a bit too long in the tooth for all that tomb raiding in the last Indiana Jones movie, take heart.
View ArticleFight Night Round 4
FIGHT Night Round 3 was the darling of the next generation when it arrived three years ago. Even today, it remains the undisputed champion of boxing sims.
View ArticleIt's My Birthday
AS the title suggests, It's My Birthday! is aimed at harassed parents who can't stand the thought of a McDonalds party or two hours of soft-play hell.
View ArticleG-Force
I HAVEN'T seen a 3-D movie since I caught a showing of Revenge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon 15 years ago.
View ArticleIce Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
ICE Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is one of this summer's big animated blockbusters, arriving at cinemas just in time for the holidays. And no kids' movie is complete these days without a video game...
View ArticleWolfenstein
NOSTALGIA is big box office these days. Hollywood has pillaged through the horror back catalogue so thoroughly that some subjects (A Nightmare on Elm Street being the most obvious) are coming back for...
View ArticleToy Story Mania!
THE last time Disney spun off a new franchise from a theme park ride (Pirates of the Caribbean), it struck gold.
View ArticleWET
WHEN stylish mercenary Rubi Malone agrees to find a wealthy businessman's son, she isn't expecting any trouble.
View ArticleMarvel Ultimate Alliance 2
WHEN a fight between heroes and villains causes a tragic explosion in a Connecticut school killing 612 civilians, including scores of children, America introduces new laws to force superheroes to...
View ArticleBorderlands - a fresh new take on the FPS
ON the surface Borderlands looks pretty much like your standard first person shooter (albeit with an eye-catching cell shaded graphical style of its own) but stick with it and you'll find a game...
View ArticleiCarly - a game to keep your sister quiet on Christmas Day?
iCARLY. Format: Nintendo Wii. Publisher: Activision. Price: £19.99
View ArticleCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
I THOUGHT queues outside games stores were a thing of the past. However, last week more than 300 people queued up patiently in Middlesbrough town centre just so they could be among the first to own...
View ArticleLego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
LET'S face it, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull wasn't very good. Harrison Ford looks too old, the ancient aliens plot has been done before and imposing a son on Indy just to help him...
View ArticleBioshock 2
RESIDENT Evil 4, Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda, Grand Theft Auto - the list of game sequels that genuinely manage to surpass the originals remains an exclusive one.
View ArticleJames Cameron's Avatar The Game
EVERY game based on a movie licence suffers from the burden of expectation, but when the film in question happens to be the most successful ever made, then it must be hard not to sink beneath a tidal...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy XIII
A NEW Final Fantasy isn't a games release, it's an event. Fans maintain the series has re-defined the role playing genre on every console generation.
View ArticleRed Dead Redemption
THIS IS the open world game Rockstar Studios has been building up to ever since Grand Theft Auto switched from top-down to three-dimensions.
View ArticleSAW II: FLESH & BLOOD
DEPRESSING thought for the day, according to a recent poll, Halloween is second only to Christmas in terms of popularity. More than half of respondents ranked All Hallows Eve as one of their top two...
View ArticleLionheart: Kings' Crusade
I KNOW strategy games are supposed to be complex, but recently they have become so convoluted as to be almost impossible – and where's the fun in that?
View ArticleGrand in every sense
ROCKSTAR (and the media) have been making all the right noises about GTA V delivering the ultimate sandbox gaming experience, and in this instance, it more than delivers.
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