Reviews

Saints Row: The Third is not your typical video game. So many times in the past it has been compared to Grand Theft Auto, accused of being a rip off, but it really does stand strong on it's own merit. The sheer....

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the complete sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, but acts as a stand-alone game for older fans as well as those new to the series. It attempts to enhance and surpass its predecessor, with a new game....

Need for Speed has been a firm favourite among gamers for well over a decade, but how does this latest offering, from developer Blackbox, hold up against previous titles? The game feels as if it has gone back to....

Id Software has been hugely influential in past years in the world of gaming, developing immensely popular games such as Doom, Quake and Wolfstein that took the genre of first-person shooter by storm. It's no wonder....

Five years after we first met Marcus Fenix, he is back, courtesy of Epic Games and ready to conclude the series with an almighty bang. It begins in a similar way to the first Gears of War, with Fenix imprisoned. The....

It's been 12 years since Duke saved the planet. He's now a super mega star with his own musical, his own museum featuring statues of familiar enemies, and he even has his own mega hot blonde twins, and so on. Nothing....

Several years back when us Half Life fans were treated with a juicy Orange Box that came packed with the full Half Life 2, Episode 1 and the anticipated Episode 2, most of us weren't to know that Gordon Freeman's....

Since Tiger Woods decided to be a naughty boy, his gaming series has changed a little. Last year saw Rory McIlroy take a sharing role on the cover next to the shamed Tiger. Not that it changed the game so much. This....

With plenty of hype and a generous marketing budget it's easy to be fooled into thinking a game is the "must have" of the month. With Bulletstorm and Crysis 2 also out around the same time, you'd be....

It's been 11 long years since Marvel v Capcom 2 came out on the Dreamcast. Since then numerous fighters have come and stamped their mark on the genre. Most notable of which is Capcom's very own Street Fighter IV. The....

Man, woman, child or animal, we've all at some point put little puppies through their paces in Nintendogs, even if we choose not to share that information with anyone but ourselves. It'll hardly be a surprise then....

Before Kinect was released you may (or may not) have looked at Joy Ride and thought how fun it would be to control a car with a pretend steering wheel. Perhaps thoughts of Mario Kart Wii came into your mind, and the....

Unless Kinect Adventure screamed "play me" when you first opened your sparkling new Kinect sensor, chances are Kinect Sports will be the first game you ever play to see if Microsoft's new peripheral is a....

Beat 'em ups are a genre of game that divide their fans straight down the middle, Street Fighter or Tekken; 2D sprites or 3D polygons; combos or timing, button mashing, even online multiplayer. The list of....

Occasionally a game arrives that you have heard nothing about until the moment it lands on your desk waiting for you to review it, often this is a bad sign, but occasionally a rare gem will surface, but which....

It's been a while since Criterion Games gave us a new Burnout game. That's because they've been busy turning Need For Speed into the new, well, Burnout. This was always going to be the case though, so it's no....

In the twelve months that have followed Modern Warfare 2, we've seen controversial airport missions, the disintegration of the relationship between Activision and Infinity Ward's founder (leading to them defecting to....

The original Haunted House on the the Atari 2600 deserves its place in history for many reasons, the game was one of the first home video games to feature scrolling graphics; a multi-level playing field; and has....

Deadly Premonition is probably one of the greatest games you'll never play. Given the low profile, it's the type of a game that'll be shoved on the bottom shelf in a video game store, without so much of a mention....

In a time where World Wrestling Entertainment has, for the safety of its performers (and equally for the political aspirations of its former CEO), entered a PG age of no blood, no bad language and no chair shots to....