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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 ArticleSilent Hill: Homecoming
WHEN soldier Alex Shepherd returns home to Shepherd's Glen, he enters a nightmare world where decisions made by his ancestors have apparently opened the gates of hell.
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.
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