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 [...]
UK REVIEW–There are few sports that polarise opinion in quite the manner cricket does, and it is likely to be the same for International Cricket 2010. It provides a faithful and nuanced translation of the game to consoles, with satisfaction to be found picking the perfect spot to cream a ball [...]
N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights may be only the second game in this hack-and-slash series, but it’s modeled so shamelessly on the Dynasty Warriors franchise that it feels like something we’ve seen a dozen times before. It also feels carelessly put together, with a lousy story that is marred by technical problems, shallow [...]
NCAA Football 10 made some significant strides last year by introducing some entertaining new modes and reworking old ones to flesh out the entire college football experience. This year, EA Sports took a different approach with NCAA Football 11 by focusing more on beefing up on-field action than on making major [...]
There aren’t many opportunities on modern consoles to gallivant about the galaxy shooting space pirates and trading android parts, so DarkStar One: Broken Alliance fills a very large void. And in spite of its many quirks, this long and accessible space combat sim does a fine job of doing so, putting [...]
