The storylines for RPGs usually fall into one of three categories: saving a sacred realm, rescuing royalty, or going on a treasure hunt to find a holy weapon of sorts. Contact breaks out of these traditional shackles by involving you personally as a character. Let’s try to explain. A Professor crashes on a strange planet …
Yer actual Ubisoft have signed up as European publishers of the Top Trumps games previously announced by Ironstone Partners. This remains essentially good news, especially as PlayStation 2, PC and – most importantly – Nintendo DS versions have been mentioned for release in the next couple of months. Top Trumps over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection …
Among the next batch of titles to grace Xbox Live Arcade, revealed by Microsoft today, is Worms. This is a good idea. Look at it. It looks like Worms. There are no forts, no bubbles at the top of the screen to burst, and it’s 2D. Admittedly, I’d have quite liked a straight conversion of …
Not much has been heard from Midas Interactive for a while. They didn’t even have a raft of new releases for the festive period, which is odd when you consider that Christmas would be an ideal time to push out some stocking fillers. They’ve made an announcement today though, that being that they’re branching out …
Capcom’s Lost Planet has found – ho ho – its way back to the top of the chart, pushing last week’s comfortable #1, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, down to #5. That leaves room for the the pair of big football games to fill the rest of the top three, with Wii Play up …
To all intents and purposes, zombies are the ultimate video game adversaries. This is one of the reasons why Game 505’s Zombie Zone went into my shopping basket whilst at Sainsbury’s today, the other reason being that you have to pay for parking unless you spend over a fiver in store. The nerve of it! …
It’s not just the futuristic setting that sets Crackdown apart from the gun-ho urban gangsta GTA clones; it’s the fact that it’s not quite so po-faced. This is arguably down to the augmented ability system. At the start you can only lift small objects, jump small distances and throw small grenades. By the end of …
The Magic Box has new shots of Turok for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s looking very good, albeit in that typical ‘must every 360 game be an FPS?’ fashion. Nostalgia dictates that Turok really should be played on a Nintendo console however. Being an early N64 game, remarkable for its lovely dinosaurs (as well …
Last month N Gamer magazine promised to spill the beans on a wealth of top secret Wii games; this month they’ve put the previously unannounced Scarface: The World is Yours on the front cover. That’s about it as far as the secrets go, disappointingly. So yes – it’s another conversion. Developers Radical are putting a …
It’s a toy license. It’s a budget game. It’s from DSI, who don’t have the best reputation around. Or any reputation at all. In this case, though, conclusions shouldn’t be jumped to – the developers have managed to use the license to good effect, creating a neat little homage to the classic Transport Tycoon. It’s …
More than five months on from being released in the rest of the world, Nintendo have finally had the decency to release Star Fox Command in Europe. When I originally reviewed it back in September, I came to the conclusion that it’s good but not great. I’d rather have a conversion of the sublime Star …
Sony confirmed the European PlayStation 3 launch details last night. I almost completely forgot until I saw some other websites rubbishing the stupidly inflated British price. So it’s official, the PlayStation 3 will launch in the UK and across civilised Europe on 23rd March with a price tag of £425 (or €599 for Euro using …
It’s funny how finding out the developer of a game can raise or lower my expectations. Take Crush, Sega’s new PSP puzzle game. It involves crushing a 3D world down into 2D to solve puzzles then ‘uncrushing’ it back to 3D. Sounds interesting. But Kuju Brighton are developing it. Now I’m fond of Kuju for …
Unless they want an angry mob at their door, Phoenix Games should probably think of another name for their upcoming and probably turgid Pac-Man clone. They clearly haven’t been watching Celebrity Big Brother.
Well it’s all about World of Warcraft this week, with The Burning Crusade – the first expansion pack – comfortably taking #1. It missed out on being the fastest selling PC game ever by less than a thousand units, so Championship Manager 04 keeps that title. World of Warcraft itself is back at #28 too. …