Ruddy hell, you’re big headed… Since the 2006 release of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on the DS, a lot of game developers have found that they can make a hell of a lot of money from showing us that a game console can make us idiotic mugs into a bunch of clever clogs, simply by …
Is it a game? Is it a film? No! It’s…average It rarely ever happens that I come across a game that harbours an identity crisis. Alone In The Dark is one of those games. After the diabolical film adaptation based loosely around the Alone In The Dark series (directed by the infamous Uwe Boll, so …
Become a rock star, with a little more practice than before! It’s always hard to make a sequel of a rhythm based music game without entering a state of d�j�-vu. But if you already have the winning formula in place, why change it? Just throw on a new soundtrack, tweak the graphics a bit and …
Style over substance In terms of realism, it seems that the PGR series has never really made its mind up. Realistic enough to simulate real world vehicles, yet unrealistic enough to allow you to drift effortlessly around corners and to put a warning up at the beginning of the game stating that no one should …
All work and no play make Jack a dull Mii… Since the release of the Wii, YouTube seems to have been flooded with hundreds of different videos of grannies bowling strikes, kids striking a computer generated baseball (occasionally getting a little too carried away and thwacking the TV as well) and loving couples bashing each …
Like Burnout, at gunpoint… You look at Full Auto and you think ‘My God, that’s a formula that must be incredible! Big guns and cars! Bring it!’ Yes, it sounds like a fantastic idea on paper, yet whoever laid their hands on it didn’t execute it too well… Someone at Sega must be a very, …
Let minions do the hard work, so you don’t have to Don’t you just get sick of being the good guy? Find yourself tearing down the streets of Liberty City slamming into random civilians, hoping to find a woman with a pram? Did you constantly fire at your own teammates in Left 4 Dead just …
Become a rock star, without the practice! Since Harmonix released their first music game ‘Frequency’ for the PS2 back in 2001, they have remained the king of rhythm games. Introducing the ‘Guitar Hero’ franchise and giving us a lot more entertainment with a guitar controller than a dance mat ever could. They then decided it …
Grab your hookshot, it’s gonna be a long ride… After witnessing what Link would look like if he were a cartoon character, fans of ‘Zelda’ were pleased, yet missed the old, realistic Hyrule they left behind way back in ‘Ocarina of Time’. Well, fans can rejoice as they are welcomed back into that world which …
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Big Swords + Brutal Characters = A game about dressing up… Ah, Soul Calibur. Whoever came up with the simple idea of adding weapons to a fighting game should be given an award. With all this praise for its sword clashing, nunchuck knock-out goodness, you’d think I’d welcome the new instalment with open arms…well, I …
