Reviews

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

The next time you come home from work in a bad mood because you ended up going 30 minutes over your shift or because an afternoon snack got jammed in the vending machine, spare a thought for Deus Ex’s Adam Jensen. As head of security for a biochip...

Dungeon Siege III

This is the first Dungeon Siege to be released on console (providing we ignore the forgettable Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony on PSP) and – much to the annoyance of fans – somebody somewhere thought that it would be best if this instalment went back to basics in...

Shadows of the Damned

Shadows of the Damned breaks plenty of new ground. It’s the first game to feature a weapon called the ‘big boner’, the first game that during a twisted fantasy sequence lets the main character – Mexican demon hunter Garcia Hotspur – walk over a giant pair of virtual...

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon

The world of PlayStation 2 budget games was a murky place, full of shoddy shoot ’em ups, rancid racing games and half-baked beat ’em ups. Then there was Global Defence Force, a game which cost next to nothing yet offered more fun and innovation than most full price...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Activision must have been pleased with how High Moon’s Transformers: War for Cybertron turned out – the studio has been allowed to continue their good work here, albeit in a slightly more casual fashion. This makes them the only studio that has been let loose on the Transformers...

Williams Pinball Classics

I’ve always had a soft spot for pinball. Not because I once managed to crack the glass on one machine and got hit on the head with the ball, but because they’re only ever limited by the creator’s imagination. Take a look at the themes used in this...

Child of Eden

Well, you certainly can’t say that Child of Eden has a clichéd plot. Lumi, the ever first human child to be born on a space station, is being digitally reconstructed by a future generation in an attempt to view her memories. But she’s under attack by a virus,...

Grand Prix Story

I should be making my own game right now, but I’m not, I’m playing Game Dev Story. Oh wait, that was the last Kairosoft game. Now history is repeating itself, but this time I’m engrossed playing Grand Prix Story, which as the name implies, is a racing version...

Green Lantern: Rise of The Manhunters

The order in which superhero games have been released on the current crop of consoles reads like the hierarchy of who’s who in the world of mutants and super-humans. Games based on Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Iron Man, Hulk and the X-Men have already been ousted and we’re now...

Plants vs Zombies

Even before taking the Plants vs Zombies cartridge out of the box I knew there was going to be a criticism to make. Mastertronic have set £24.99 as the recommended price, which seems awfully steep for a game which was originally designed to be a small and inexpensive...

Brink

Brink sure knows how important it is to make a good first impression. Rather than a predictable CGI intro you’re presented with a neat stop-motion animation showing the construction and eventual ruin of The Arc – a self-sustaining floating city that has become overrun with refugees. You’re then...

Mortal Kombat

Playing this Mortal Kombat revamp is like meeting up with an old school friend. They’ve become a lot wiser and more mature, and also better looking, but because you can still remember all the stupid things they did back in the day it’s kind of hard to take...