April 2009

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Published on: 30th April, 2009

Sometimes, a very good game can seem like a disappointment simply because it’s a less glitzy, half-step sequel to a great game. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 leaves new boy, Bishop (your playable character) in a bit of a bind. As this game is part prequel, part sequel, part concurrent game, you’re never visiting the same [...]

Dark Sector

Published on: 30th April, 2009

Dark Sector has so many similarities to Resident Evil 4 that it could be seen as an expansion pack for Capcom’s classic. Firstly, the plot focuses around a city infected by a disease. The infection, like RE4’s Las Plagas, turns regular folk into murderous zombies. There’s a shadowy figure attempting to create an army with [...]

Viking: Battle for Asgard

Published on: 30th April, 2009

You don’t judge your progress in Viking by high scores, percentage complete or rankings. You measure it in blisters – that old school badge of honour. The more pus you have swilling round beneath your swollen fingertips, the more pallid thick white skin that’s built up on your digits, the harder you’ve fought. Because in [...]

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Published on: 30th April, 2009

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue might only be a demo, but it’s worth 40 bucks alone to justify the $2000 you splurged on a PS3 and a 1080p HDTV. Prologue – the preview version of 2009’s full-on GT5 – looks even better than the screenshots you can see here. It’s the game you’ll use to convince [...]

Haze

Published on: 29th April, 2009

After five years of hype, speculation and delay, Ubisoft’s Haze breaks cover – and despite being developed by Free Radical, the team behind the excellent TimeSplitters 2 on PS2 – it fails to better UT3, Resistance and CoD4. Haze looks poor, lacks set-pieces and feels like a novel idea that missed its window of opportunity, [...]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Published on: 29th April, 2009

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a masterpiece, arguably the best in the series and – though many will fiercely disagree – ever so slightly disappointing. About 40% through, our notepad was scarred with breathless superlatives like ‘Genius’, ‘Amazing’ and ‘Wow!!!’ but by the game’s conclusion, they’d given way to considered criticism and stark cries of [...]

Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit

Published on: 29th April, 2009

Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit is completely out of control. To anyone who knows the animated series, that’s no bad thing. What starts out looking like a standard 3D fighting game soon gets turned on its head when the big-eyed brawlers start flying and shooting insanely damaging energy beams from their fingertips.

It’s still a one-on-one [...]

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution

Published on: 29th April, 2009

When you bought your PlayStation 3 the chances are it wasn’t because you were dreaming of playing a game in which you built a garden of hanging vines to attract William Shakespeare to your city while Ghandi shook a stick at you in a fit of rage. The chances are even slimmer that you pictured [...]

Top Spin 3

Published on: 29th April, 2009

First, you have to unlearn everything you know about tennis games. Not since Pro Evolution hit the PS2 and redefined videogame footy has a title so radically changed how we look at in-game sport. Top Spin 3’s arrival makes Virtua Tennis look like Pong. Where Sega’s title asks that you be in the right place [...]

Buzz! Brain of the UK

Published on: 29th April, 2009

Buzz’s enthusiastic quizmaster is back with a whole sack full of new questions and some mildly cringe-worthy one-liners. As with SingStar, we’d assumed that downloadable content for the first PS3 game would make further releases unnecessary, but there are bound to be those who just want to pick up an easy new instalment. And they’ll [...]

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