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Okami HD is the best £16 you’ll ever spend and here’s why.
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Come the autumn months, the pedigree of the video-gaming market get set to release their latest venture. The longevity of franchises such as Halo and Call of Duty have placed their names at the top of the year’s most anticipated lists for over ten years now. Yet in 2007, breaking from the first-person shooter mould, […]
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While the zombies try to feed on your brains, the game feeds yours as it proves video games can be intelligent and dynamic and not just for the living-dead teenagers in their bedrooms.
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This game that started it all is a magnificent piece of 2D platforming, with simplicity that only improves it.
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Sometimes there is merit in taking almost a decade in making a sequel. Unlike the yearly debacle that has become the Call of Duty series, Sony Online Entertainment have bided their time in releasing a follow up to the novel and critically acclaimed Planetside which was released in 2003. In gaming terms, although a nine […]
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Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 is not original. It isn’t groundbreaking – other reviewers have pointed out that the only new feature is that Max holds the same guns in cut scenes as he was using in actual gameplay, which, despite being a nice touch for perfectionists, is hardly revolutionising the industry. It isn’t well written, […]
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A preview of the newest instalment from the biggest selling game franchise of all time.
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In a world where technology is allowing us to become increasingly introverted, yet still retain an air of social community through Facebook, Twitter and smart phones, we’ve lost sight of some of the simple pleasures: having friends round for a binge on Ribena and a WWF Smackdown face-off. Couch multi-player is becoming obsolete as gaming systems progress and are […]
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If I was to provide you with the word ‘gamer’ I think I can be fairly certain what image that might conjure in your head; that of the nerdy, socially awkward, spotty teenager who spends too much time with computers and not enough time outside. Conjured up during the ’80s and to some extent the […]
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Assassin’s Creed returns to consoles this autumn as the stories of Ezio and Altaïr come to a dramatic conclusion. Despite having an annual release date for new titles in the series, the crew behind it have succeeded in bettering themselves, delivering the best instalment of the franchise so far. Revelations follows the continuation of Ezio’s […]
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Petrolhead gamers of the last decade are undoubtedly more than familiar with the name Need for Speed, and in the last few years the franchise has undergone something of a redefinition of itself and of the racing genre. The Run, Need for Speed’s newest instalment, essentially sticks to the traditional street racing side of things, […]
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On November 15th 2001, Microsoft and Bungie introduced a new game as a companion release for the first of their Xbox consoles. Featuring a cybernetic super soldier fighting to preserve humanity in the universe against an onslaught of alien invaders, Halo became a worldwide phenomenon. Ten years later and more than 34 million copies of […]
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World War 3 has arrived with the triumphant return of Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise, and the final instalment of the epic three-part campaign concludes the hunt for number one bad guy Vladimir Makarov. The campaign takes place in various familiar locations around the world — London, Berlin, Paris and […]
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EA Sports return this year with the latest instalment of their award-winning franchise, FIFA 12. This year’s version, of what is arguably the most essential game for any football fan, is the most feature-packed to date, sporting new in-depth online and multiplayer modes, innovative new gameplay additions and improved graphics. But what’s new in the gameplay […]