Xbox 360

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

Published on: 16th May, 2009

Anticlimactic. That’s how it felt when, having craved next-gen PES since the dawn of PS3, we finally got to play a finished (or supposedly finished, but more on that in a minute) copy. PES 2008 just doesn’t feel like a bold step into the future. At first, it feels like little more than a shinier [...]

Need for Speed ProStreet

Published on: 16th May, 2009

Ryan Cooper. Don’t worry if you’ve already forgotten the name since you’ll be hearing it a few times in Need for Speed ProStreet. It’s the moniker of your driver in Career mode. He’s not the most charismatic character. In fact, he’s practically mute – and you only ever see him with his helmet on – [...]

Mass Effect

Published on: 16th May, 2009

Your boss called. He’s busy, so he needs you to take care of a few things today: Take the new spaceship on a test run, buy milk, discover an ancient alien civilization, save all organic life in the galaxy from annihilation, and get yourself a little cosmic bow-chicka-bow-wow in the process. If you don’t think [...]

SpongeBob SquarePants:

Published on: 16th May, 2009

THQ’s post-Christmas present to you is the first of no doubt many downloadable games featuring the SpongeBob SquarePants license. But unlike most previous games starring Bikini Bottom’s most famous inhabitant, Underpants Slam is actually a pretty decent time-waster. The general idea in Underpants Slam is to move about each new level avoiding jellyfish, finding items [...]

Metal Slug 3

Published on: 16th May, 2009

SNK Playmore’s previous Xbox Live Arcade effort was less than stellar, and that’s being charitable. And that’s not because the port was bad so much as the game itself just didn’t stand the test of time. Metal Slug 3 doesn’t suffer from that problem…the real issue here is that a lot of folks may never [...]

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008

Published on: 15th May, 2009

It seems that when we previewed WWE SvR we overestimated the role that the new fighting styles would play. To recap, each wrestler specialises in two of eight grappling techniques – Brawler, Powerhouse, Technical, Showman, Submission Expert, Dirty and Hardcore – and the theory is that you use each style’s strengths tactically against your opponent. [...]

Resident Evil: Outbreak

Published on: 15th May, 2009

When we first heard about Resi: Online (as it was then) and splashed it on the cover of PSM2 it was online only and we described it as being the ‘first real reason to buy a Network Adapter’. So when the shitshell dropped that the game wouldn’t be online in the UK we almost choked [...]

Soul Calibur – Xbox Live Arcade

Published on: 2nd May, 2009

It’s amazing how well this has aged. Sure, textures are a little flatter, there’s less detail in the background, and Taki’s chest has lost a few million polygons – but this is still a very slick, very attractive fighter. It plays superbly too – perhaps lacking in some of the subtler nuances of the sequels, [...]

michael jackson beat it

Published on: 2nd May, 2009

Travel back in time and enter a parallel universe and you’ll read an Xbox World 360 brave enough to call Braid the best game ever; a land without the likes of Super Mario World, Ocarina of Time, Portal and Fallout 3 all vying for the same spot. It’s a world where the platform game never [...]

Madden NFL 09

Published on: 2nd May, 2009

Like the career arcs of many promising first-round draft picks, Madden’s next-generation games have steadily improved from unwatchable embarrassment to veteran excellence. Perhaps, then, we were expecting too much – or (more likely) the short development cycle allotted to Madden 09’s crew didn’t allow enough time for all their ideas to get fully implemented. Whatever [...]

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