The latest edition to the growing Xbox Live Arcade is RoboBlitz. It’s also the first downloadable title to be powered by the much mooted Unreal 3 engine. Amazingly though, it isn’t a first person robot-based shooter – which is what we expected it to be – but rather a neat little physics-based platform/action/puzzle game starring …
Despite Parappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy performing well in the UK, Gitaroo Man flopped when it debuted on PlayStation 2 back in 2002. Which is a shame, really, as it took the rhythm action genre to a whole new level, with nifty analogue control and bizarre but loveable characters. What we’re really trying …
You can’t blame EA for knocking out this spin-off in super quick time to rake in a bit of festive cash. There’s no Harry Potter movie this year, the next Medal of Honor isn’t due until 2007, and James Bond has leaped over to Activision, leaving only their annual sports updates and Need for Speed …
I’ve got fond memories of the Fighting Fantasy ‘make your own adventure’ books. But oddly, it’s fond memories of owning them, rather than playing with them. They were just good things. Apparently they’ve recently been re-launched, and now a game is on the way to Nintendo DS and PSP. Well, they’ve not got a developer …
We were a bit surprised to find the Touch Generations logo on the front of Elite Beat Agents. There’s no mistaking that it’s a simplified title, but a slightly camp cheerleading game starring blokes in sharp suits is a far cry from the other Touch Generation games. Still, it takes all sorts. And the Elite …
Idiots. There were two Xbox 360-exclusives released last week, and it’s Rainbow Six: Vegas which takes the highest new entry at #10. The charming, wonderful and joyous Viva Pinata hasn’t made it that high in the Xbox 360 chart – it’s at #11. Xbox 360 owners may be the worst people in the history of …
Did you remember to open the first door on your advent calendar today? We only remembered when typing this article’s title. Behind the door we found a small square of brown plastic, which we think is meant to be chocolate. That’ll teach us for not buying a proper Cadbury one. It’s a jolly colourful calender …
‘Sports entertainment’ is a big daft panto of a thing, so why are its games always so infuriatingly complicated? Because its fans are obsessive idiots. That’s our theory, anyway. But what it means is that, unlike almost any other sports game, it’s all but impossible to recommend to anyone other than fans. Which is a …
Admit it. You were worried when Bueua Vista Games (i.e. Disney) announced that they were going to be publishing the sequel to sublime puzzler Lumines. And you were probably even more worried when you heard that they were going to be including a licensed soundtrack featuring the likes of Gwen Stefani, Beck, The Black Eyed …
Living in olde England and all, we know little more than the basics when it comes to ice hockey. We certainly don’t mind giving the latest efforts from EA or 2K a go when they plop through our letterbox though – you can always count on the fighting system to brighten our spirits when we’re …
We like a good retro compilation, with the Taito Legends duo, Sonic Mega Collection and the first two Midway Arcade Treasures collections being the very definition of good. Capcom Classics Collection Remixed – released on PSP only a few months ago – didn’t make that list, as it was missing Street Fighter II and Ghouls …
Criticising a budget game is a lot like telling a six year old boy to draw a lady then shouting at him to the point that he cries because he failed to equal the subtlety of the Mona Lisa. By that we mean that criticising a budget game is a lot like this: fun. A …
We infrequently have high expectations of cartoon licenses, but with SpongeBob we’re always a little more optimistic. Not much, but we harbour the hope of at least being made to chuckle. And we’re always disappointed. It seems like an attempt has been made to capture the spirit of the show, as the game has a …
Microsoft once famously claimed that Halo 3 would launch on the same day as the PlayStation 3 in the US. Obviously that hasn’t happened, but instead we’ve been presented with Gears of War, which not only looks better than Halo 3 – judging by the shots printed in certain publications – but was actually released …
The videogame market is rife with copycats, and always has been. It would be impossible to count the number of Pac-Man clones released in the Atari era, or games that looked and smelt like Space Invaders. EA acquired the Godfather license; Vivendi went and got Scarface. THQ followed suit, bringing home The Sopranos. But should …
