You know when you’re in the mood for playing a game, but you don’t want to put in any effort? You just want to lazily blast enemies in the face – ones that run blindly towards you despite the fact you’re holding a rocket launcher and they’re grasping a penknife. Well, when you’re in one [...]
Published on: 1st May, 2009
While still clearly a big success, a lot of folks would probably agree that the PC version of the first-person shooter FarCry was less a great game and more a great tech demo. This was thanks mostly to lush visuals and massive, go-virtually-anywhere levels that often far overshadowed the gameplay itself.
It’s no surprise then that [...]
Published on: 1st May, 2009
Moments like these are why we love Jade Empire: four members of a deadly assassin’s guild have our character and her companion, a small girl perhaps eight years old, surrounded. The assassins haven’t got a chance.
Magical claws sprout from our lovely avatar’s wrists and we tear the first opponent to shreds with a quick flurry [...]
Published on: 1st May, 2009
That strange sound you’re hearing this spring is the release of an actual new game for the original Xbox. While Microsoft has wholly ignored their first console since the advent of the 360 and Electronic Arts has made its latest baseballer a PS2 exclusive, 2K Sports has bequeathed a shiny new disc to play unto [...]
Published on: 1st May, 2009
Dynasty Warriors must seem so strange to those who haven’t played it. There have been about a trillion games in the series, and they never seem to change. The same faces, situations, soundbites… Dynasty Warriors 5 (which isn’t actually the fifth in the series, confusion fans) is, to untrained eyes and thumbs, the same as [...]
Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007: The joy when Konami first announced World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 was coming to PSP was fairly short-lived once the game hit shel...