Well. I never really expected to be reviewing the third game in the ground-breaking Deus Ex series. When the first title game out in 2000, it was an instant hit, combining first-person shooter elements with role-playing gameplay, exploration, body modification, and a slew of other elements that combined to create what is still considered by some to be the greatest PC game ever. Read More.
Garcia F****** Hotspur, the protagonist behind Shadows of the Damned, is something of a unique specimen amongst video game characters, and not just because he has an expletive as a middle name. Hotspur is a hispanic, purple jacket wearing, vulgar-mouthed demon hunter whose girlfriend has been taken down into a bizarre underworld filled with weird logic and an army of demons that wants to kill him dead. Read More.
Almost every gamer knows about the Legend of Zelda. Likewise, every gamer, if they were around, played The Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64. Seeing Link in full 3D for the first time, with a truly expansive Hyrule, vivid characters, dungeons and sidequests is not all easily forgotten. Read More.
Developed by Codemasters, the Collin McRae series of racing games have been around since 1998, and they've been getting better and better with each game. And although DiRT 3 is the first in the series to drop the Collin McRae moniker, it carries on the tradition of fantastic rally racers. Read More.
Rio, a game about a blue macaw who couldn't fly, was a decent animated movie for the younger crowd that came out earlier this year. As an animated film, a tie-in game was inevitable; instead of going the typical platforming route, however, the game was developed as a multiplayer minigame compilation title. Read More.
Super Monkey Ball games have a history of being launch titles for Nintendo consoles. The original game was a launch title for the Gamecube back in 2001, and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz launched alongside the Wii in 2006. And even though the series has been rolling downhill faster than any ball-enclosed monkey ever could, the trend continues with Super Monkey Ball 3D on the Nintendo 3DS. Read More.
The downloadable world is filled with tower defense games these days. However, Double Fine Productions decided to change it up a bit. Instead of controlling units from the skies above, Trenched places you right on the field in the thick of battle defending your posts from monstrous creations and it never stops being fun. Read More.
High Moon Studios had some great mechanics with War for Cybertron. The gameplay was fast-paced and transforming on the fly was fun and essential to the experience. With the third Michael Bay movie, it was inevitable that a game tie-in would be over the horizon. Read More.
Racing games are easy to identify. They have cars, some sort of track and generally you drive in circles. Some games allow you to drift and pull fancy manoeuvres while others arm you with weapons and encourage you to blow each other to smithereens. Sometimes they have cool locations, or cool vehicles, or maybe a car customization feature. Read More.
When Child of Eden was given to me to review, the first thing many people asked me, after having seen what it's all about, was, "How the heck are you going to describe this game? It's true, this style of game is unlike anything that has come out before, which is precisely why it makes the game all the more entertaining. Read More.
Second games in a trilogy are problematic for every franchise. The question of how much to keep, what to get rid of, and how many new things to add is far more art than science. Dragon Age: Origins was such a triumph of an RPG that its sequel was unlikely to measure up no matter what it did. Read More.
I'm not honestly sure where to begin complaining so I'll just start in the beginning. Warhammer 40k: Kill Team is a twin stick shooter arcade game that's designed for players to run around and kill stuff. That's it. Murder orcs, butcher some Tyranids, unlock upgrades and that's it. Read More.
As a game reviewer there are few times when you can honestly say something was the first time you felt a particular way for a game. It's often just hyperbole or something being a bit overblown. But this is definitely one of those times when it's genuine – Catherine has got to be the first time that I was so confused, enthralled, horrified and simultaneously unable to look away from a video game. Read More.
The First Templar is the story of Celian d'Arestide, a French Templar living through the time of the Crusades. He is a noble man, seeking to live up to the highest of standards; helping the innocent, being chivalrous and attempting to advance the Templar Order. Read More.
I don't have any experience with the Call of Juarez series. A cursory glance online tells me that it's a wild-west shooter, with varying levels of success. A cursory glance at The Cartel tells me that the man on the cover wearing bullet-proof armor with POLICE emblazoned on the front is probably not a turn-of-the-century cowboy. Read More.
