BioShock 2 had you playing a lumbering Big Daddy in search of the Little Sister you were meant to protect. Minerva’s Den is a separate story for the same game: you play a different Big Daddy with a different goal. You’re looking for The Thinker, a punchcard-driven artificial intelligence developed to [...]
Aargh, me hearties. Aargh. In almost every way, Lego Pirates is one of the best of the Lego Whatever series, from its swaggering Jack Sparrow to the epic range of locations from the movies. Its cute, mimed retellings of these are genuinely funny. Even the traditionally very basic combat feels oddly [...]
Think of Beep as a quantum physicist wearing tie-dye trousers: it’s clever with the physics, but not so easy on the eyes. It’s a 2D platform game where you control a little robot on wheels, or Wall-E as forged by Korean merchandisers. You visit different planets in a solar system (there’s a [...]
L.A. Noire has been a long time coming. With its genesis occurring on the PS2, with a subsequent upgrade in hardware once the next generation of consoles were released, this is a game that has been anticipated and on the tip of people’s tongues for quite some time. So [...]
As one of the half-dozen European gamers to have actually owned a Sega Saturn back in the 90’s, I have fond memories of the original Sega Rally — one of the first arcade racers to successfully make the transition to home consoles. 16 years later, the franchise is still going strong, [...]
With the launch of the Xbox Live Arcade, there was an opportunity for lesser-known developers to get their name out there without the sometimes-prohibitive costs of releasing a disc-based game. And sometimes, XBLA is used by larger, more well-known developers to get a game out the door which they don’t deem necessary to put on [...]
Duke Nukem 3D was one of the first FPS titles to really leave an impact on me. During the mid-90s an adolescent version of me was stunned to see the guts, gore and girls DN3D had to offer. Even if Duke himself was a one dimensional, chain smoking, wise cracking misogynist he resonated with the [...]
The F.E.A.R franchise has been through a few hurdles since its debut in 2005. The first game in the series was developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi. Just 5 short years later and the original publisher have ceased to be. Like the ghostly little girls that populate this horror FPS series it has [...]
Some may believe that the music rhythm genre died when Activision disbanded its Guitar Hero unit earlier this year. We may see a decline in the amount of music games created by western developers but that leaves room for innovations from others in the gaming community. Tetsuya Mizuguchi returns to the music genre, after his [...]
In Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, you see the titular leading lady from a whole new perspective. While the isometric camera angle shows off less of the iconic character than you may be used to, the game boasts the same engaging mix of exploration and combat that has long [...]
