Finding the Holy Grail = Serious Business
Many games have interesting settings – it’s part of what’s required to be a hit game But few are more intriguing than the one found in The First Templar. Appealing to every historical bone in our ...
Down 'n' Dirty
DiRT 3 is a lot of things, to a lot of people. It’s a realistic, gritty rallying game, that sees you barrelling down narrow dirt paths, come rain or shine, in a battle between heart and mind as to how...
Big, bad, beat 'em up? You bet.
With the series' long-time rival, Street Fighter IV having seen its release alongside the 3DS, Dead or Alive: Dimensions has f...
The anti-Ronseal.
I know, I know - I know what you’re thinking. “Wow, a side-scrolling beat 'em up? It's been a while since we've had one of those on the XBLA”. Actually, unless you've been living under a rock for the ...
Becoming the King of Pop isn't as easy as it sounds.
"Hold on", I hear you say, "wasn't Michael Jackson: The Experience out well before Christmas?" Well, yes, it was - but this is something a little bit different. While MJ: The Experience on the Wii was...
Where no man's gone before - unless they had an Atari 2600
There's many a night been spent by makind dreaming of what the future may hold. And by future, we don't just mean tomorrow - we're talking about future, future, like the year 3000. Even Busted got in ...
Is it any good? Yarrrr!
If there's one thing LEGO games have always been famous for, it's replay value. Playing only every now and then, it took us almost a year to finally get all the gold bricks on LEGO Harry Potter, so we...
Go to war, but make sure you bring backup.
At a time where every game seems to be coming with increasingly more grandiose Limited Editions, featuring everything from a vinyl record, to a radio controlled car, or even a life size helmet, Operat...
Evolve with me
There’s nothing more frustrating than when a company don’t listen to you. It’s often been said that the best way to learn is by making mistakes, but so many companies simply don’t, instead choosing to...
Who said Gardner's World never taught us anything?
I can't be the only one who has their Facebook news feed constantly invaded by spam generating tat (unlike our brilliant Facebook page...
Solving puzzles, for science!!
Take a look around, and think about what you see around you. There’s a chair, that you’re presumably sitting on. You know how it feels, and how reacts - how it supports your weight. It works exactly a...
I (still) wanna be the very best, like no-one ever was
Games these days like giving you awkward choices to make. Morality testing role playing games like Fable, Mass Effect and Dragon Age often leave you trying to work out whether someone should live...
Come dive with me.
When we first went hands-on with Steel Diver at Nintendo's Amsterdam 3DS preview event, we were enthused, to say the least, with ...
Lurking in the shadows...
As with the recently reviewed Rayman 3D, Splinter Cell 3D, another of Ubisoft’s launch titles for the 3DS, isn’t actually an entirely new game. ...
Chilli con carne!
The dichotomy of the title describes Beyond Good & Evil perfectly – when it's good, it's very good, but when it's bad, it goes beyond just being evil - at least in term...
They don't make them like they used to...
If - like me - you played a heck of a lot of point and click adventure games in the 90s, you might remember Jane Jenson. Famous for her Gabriel Knight series that followed the title character - a...
How strong is the force with this one?
With the whole collection of six films already well and truly under their belt, we were beginning to wonder if the end was in sight for LEGO Star Wars. With Traveller's Tales seemingly having moved on...
A long time ago, in a dimension far, far away.
If you've ever visited this fine establishment before, you'll be keenly aware of our opinion of the LEGO games. In short, they're the greatest things since sliced butter (or something like that) - a p...
Once more, with feeling.
If you're a recent initiate to the world of games, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only thing Rayman has ever done is do battle with those pesky Rabbids in the popular minigame franchise. Back...
Be the weapon? Be the wuss.
Crysis 2 certainly gets off with a bang. With mood lighting illuminating the bowels of a submarine, the game begins with a troop of marines being briefed on what may lay ahead. Something’s going on on...