It’s quite apt that the Men in Black theme song included the lyrics “Here come the Men in Black, they won’t let you remember,†as the games that followed the 1997 movie have all been rather forgettable. The first to be released is easily the most renowned. Rather than being a casual shooter, it was …
If you missed out on the first part of Telltale’s The Walking Dead story, then you missed one of the best zombie games of recent times. It was an excellent blend of zombie slaughtering and pointing and clicking, demonstrating Telltale’s storytelling skills to their fullest. The best thing about it though was that there were …
Budget re-releases notwithstanding, this is only the second new PSP game to receive a retail release this year. The first, if you’re curious, was fellow RPG Fate/Extra. Considering some stores no longer stock PSP games, be it new or pre-owned, we doubt that the format would be receiving any new games at all if it …
The problem we have with this belated conversion is not how it plays but how it makes us feel. When playing the console version we get a warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing that one of the largest publishers in the world is still brave enough to release a 2D platformer, when in this day and …
If there’s one thing developers Grasshopper Manufacture are good at, it’s excellent character design. No More Heroes gave us Travis Touchdown, a fearless assassin that most gamers could still relate to despite being something of an anti-hero. Shadows of The Damned then gave us Garcia ‘Fucking’ Hotspur and his slightly-camp floating skeletal pal Johnson. Garcia …
Creating the illusion that you’re playing with a human player rather than an AI controlled character is quite the task, but one that Capcom has managed to pull off here spectacularly. The AI of your three fellow adventurers is in fact good enough to instantly forgive that there’s no ‘proper’ multi-player. Instead, in this RPG …
Do you know why men are more obsessed with gizmos, gadgets and modern technology than (most) women are? It’s down to something called occasionally referred to as ‘sharper spear complex’ – mankind’s desire to create better, stronger and more efficient weapons. It’s a trait trapped in our DNA from our long distant ancestors who would …
The Carnival Games series has been on a slippery slope since the Wii original. This is a fact made even worse than it initially seems when you bear in mind that the first Carnival Games wasn’t all that great to begin with. This didn’t stop it from being one of the Wii’s multi-million sellers though …
Many gamers rejoiced when Telltale Games arrived on the scene, and rightly so – their aim was to rejuvenate the then-dead point and click adventure genre. Their licensed games have received mixed reviews in the past, with their last game – Jurassic Park – critically mauled. There’s no need to worry though. This is Telltale …
There’s nothing like selling yourself short. The front of the box for this retail Xbox Live Arcade collection proudly boasts of containing eight games but there are in fact nine – Final Fight: Double Impact contains the often forgotten hack and slasher Magic Sword as a bonus. We can understand why Capcom have done this …
Considering it’s a movie tie-in our odds for Battleship being good were stacked oddly high in its favour prior to release. Double Helix are behind it, and their track record is better than most, including last year’s polished Green Lantern tie-in as well as the fairly decent Silent Hill: Homecoming. The fact that the movie …
Has Star Wars been lampooned enough in recent times? If your answer is ‘yes’ then perhaps it would be best to stay away from Kinect Star Wars altogether. If the sight of a small girl telling off her pet Rancor for eating her grandpa doesn’t tip you over the edge for detesting what the Star …
Here’s a hypothetical question for you. What would Mass Effect 3 be like if EA never purchased Bioware and Microsoft carried on the publishing duties? Microsoft could have done with another big game in their line-up for last Christmas so perhaps we would have seen it sooner. Something we’re more certain on is that Microsoft …
Sega have taken AGES to get their Game Gear games onto the 3DS Virtual Console. A quick browse of the options however is all it takes to realise that they’ve been hard at work making the emulation as authentic as possible. There’s a choice of screen sizes ranging from full screen to pixel perfect with …
We’ve nothing against a series being made more casual – nobody likes frustrating difficulty levels, after all. However, in attempt to make Ninja Gaiden 3 appeal to a larger audience the developers have removed just about everything that made Tomonobu Itagaki’s previous Ninja Gaiden games so entertaining in the first place. The plot sees Ryu …