Chances are a few people out there aren’t too happy about Treasure’s legendary shoot ’em up arriving on Xbox Live Arcade. I’m talking about those who own the notoriously expensive Sega Saturn original – now it’s available as a download it’s likely that it’s going to fall rapidly in value. Those already well acquainted with …
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 manufacturer, he gets sent down to the …
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 order to appeal to its new audience. …
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 bosoms, and the first game to feature …
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 titles. What’s more, it looked good doing …
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 license twice in a row. So well …
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 thirteen table strong collection – they vary …
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, which must be destroyed to allow access …
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 of Game Dev Story. Kind of. One …
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 onto the B-listers it would seem with …
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 PC download. Even a boxed copy of …
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 forced to make a major decision right …
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 them seriously. But since when did people …
Atari have revamped their retro classics in the past but usually only to the extent of a fresh lick of paint and some fancy new special effects. Yars’ Revenge – which as the loading screen reminds us, was Atari’s best selling original Atari 2600 game – is less of a revamp and more of a …
It’s sad that it has come to this – having to play a movie tie-in to get a platforming fix, due to publishers thinking that original platformers won’t sell on Xbox 360. At least the cast of Rango aren’t cuddly talking animals – sheriff Rango is a rather unlikely hero and an ugly one at …