This one slipped by me.
For a few years now, Team 17 have been updating and re-releasing Worms on various downloadable game services. They have always been the more successful 2D offering. The one title that really got me hooked though was there third 3D Worms game – Worms 4: Mayhem. An absolute blast in multiplayer it is an unusual but thoroughly entertaining night in with a few friends. How does Worms Ultimate Mayhem on Xbox 360 stack up? Continue reading »
I recently picked up the Black Ops branded Madcatz PrecisionAim Xbox 360 Controller and found the thumbsticks to be very slippery. They don’t feature any rubberised grip at all.
A pack of these did just the trick. Continue reading »
Dragon Age: Origins… I love you and I hate you. “Love” and “hate” are powerful words, but they are key here, as BioWare’s first fantasy foray into the next-gen range of consoles takes the familiar mold that we’ve come to expect from Canada’s finest RPG developer, and stuffs it full of the kind of mature … Continue reading »
SOCOM I’ve never played this game before?? D’you like that one… was good right? Moving swiftly along….. SOCOM Special Forces is a great game.
It’s old – not only is Resistance: Fall of Man set over sixty years ago, but having been released way, way back in the dark ages of 2006 it’s also the oldest RETROspective review we’ve done for the current crop of consoles.
The recent remake of Medal of Honor was not a title I purchased based on review scores. As an unashamed, newly-converted addict to the brilliance of Battlefield, I couldn’t resist the pull of a free Beta trial for the upcoming Battlefield 3. However, I was pleasantly surprised by a thoroughly entertaining single player campaign. Although … Continue reading »
Pick up gun. Shoot everything that moves. Rinse and repeat… It’s the standard formula for a vast swathe of first and third person shooters out there, each with their own unique little twist on an otherwise very familiar (and very profitable) formula. We’ve been following the hype around the F.E.A.R. franchise’s third instalment, and a … Continue reading »
A franchise that started way back in 1996, that spawned the world’s most evil company, Umbrella Corp, 14 sequels and 8 films has been brought kicking and screaming to Nintendo’s latest handheld, but does it live up to the recent hype?
The combination of videogame consoles and headsets has existed ever since the Sega Mega Drive landed in 1989. Bringing alongside its jaw droppingly beautiful 16-Bit graphics was full stereo sound, but only if you plugged in a set of £2.99 headphones from OurPrice. Times have changed, and the £2.99 headset now requires you to move the … Continue reading »
Pure, simple, fun. For a game that has taken 15 years, multiple court hearings and four developers to complete, Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a glorious throwback to classic 1990′s first person shooters, and as stated by the Duke himself, “forever takes a long time” but thankfully not much has changed.
It’s finally here, our thoughts and feelings on the recently released Brink from SplashDamage.
So after all this hype is it any cop? Or is its mere existence a crime? Ed stops his punning right now and gets down to some serious work. From the Director of The Getaway and a new studio from Australia (Team Bondi), L.A. Noire is a gritty detective story that loves film noir so … Continue reading »
Breasts and brutal combos, that’s why you bought a 3DS right?…. Its been only a few short months since the release of the 3DS and much has been said about its ability to render children blind, cause mass famine, and generally (in our office) is thought to be responsible for preventing Rapture on the 21st May 2011. No mean feat, however, there has … Continue reading »
Fans of first-person shooters are absolutely spoilt for choice this year, but with so many games now competing for your hard-earned time and money, developers are trying desperately to cram in new features, bells and whistles to make the old formula feel new again and release the next “big thing”.
If you haven’t already pre-ordered this game, do it. Do it now. So, the public Gears of War 3 BETA has been up for almost a week now and I can tell you that this game is simply amazing. Pure and simple, Epic have taken everything that was bad about the first two instalments and thrown it … Continue reading »
It feels like first-person shooters are absolutely flooding the market these days. With Medal of Honour and then Homefront failing to really make a dent in Call of Duty: Black Op‘s dominance over the market, it seems a shooter really has to do something special to stand apart. That’s where Codemasters’ tactical take on the … Continue reading »
A lot of noise was made by Sony in the build up to the release of Playstation plus last June, but like many, I was sceptical as to what I would get for my £39.99.
There are a number of Surround-Sound gaming headset around from the likes of Turtle Beach, Astro and Tritton, however if you want to use them on your console the pickings are slimmer. The excellent wireless X41 from Turtle Beach are probably the best of a batch of “Xbox 360 Ready” headsets – but they are … Continue reading »
Just had a play with one of these. Overall, pretty damn good. Compared to the iPad 2? Faster, more responsive, sleeker, more grown up buttons, proper keyboard with a TAB key, MUCH greater browser functionality (including ‘incognito mode….) equal video and camera capabilities but with the added versatility of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
Sega announced this week that the brand new reworked, original, exactly as it was port of Super Monkey Ball is now available to download on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace for £3.99. Having only been out for a matter of days there are already some pretty unkind reviews for this iteration. It is a carbon … Continue reading »
It’s finally here, slightly later than we hoped for, but no one’s perfect, except maybe Crytek!
Oh Dear Lord. This game makes me squeal like a pig in custard. Or, more relevantly, a fat bloke wedged into a turbo charged V8 Caterham Superlight 500, on a 150mph follow-through. I intend to be rampantly biased about this game as i’m a car enthusiast but then, i think that the fact that it keeps a … Continue reading »
Machinarium is a beautiful point-and-click adventure game, released independently by Aminata Design for PCs in 2009. Created in Flash, it’s gameplay harks back to the Lucasarts and Sierra games of old. However, it has a little trick up its sleeve – the charming inhabitants of this strange steampunk world do not speak. You play as … Continue reading »
Now the initial hype has settled, and masses have had time to raise their concerns once more about little “James” feeling nauseous after playing with his new 3DS, because he is either too young to experience any form of stimulation, or can’t read the plentiful warnings on the product that states “play no longer than 30 mins” … Continue reading »
On a Dark Night… OK, for the lazier among you I’m going to make this short and simple: buy this game. “Oh, but I don’t really like Batman/Games based on a comicbook” some of you say… Well, it goes beyond the usual cash in: buy this game. “But I don’t really like action or fighting … Continue reading »
Here Comes a New Challenger!! Quite possibly the best game available in the UK on launch day, Super Street Fighter IV manages to capture all the excitement and freshness of SFIV’s original release back in July 2009 on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
WOW!!!!! After waiting for what felt like an eternity, the 3DS finally has arrived. Having decided not to jump into the 3D space until this point, I have been somewhat sceptical of the potential that 3D could bring video games, and entertainment in general. Having sat through Avatar, UP and several other 3D films at … Continue reading »
Yes, that’s right, this is the first map pack that has been released since Bungie gave Microsoft the big heave-ho, but fear not, it’s still Halo! After the dissappointment of the Noble DLC, its time for the new kids on the block to pick up where Bungie left off, and instill confidence that there is Life After Bungie (LAB).
Epic. This is a game about epic scales of proportion. The amount of fun you have, the amount of damage you do, the depth of the battle system, your interest in the story and the conceited characters, the size of the monsters, the amount of hit points the enemies have, the amount of strategic options … Continue reading »
Having joined the Playstation revolution late in the day, picking up a copy of Resistance1 several months after release, and still not having put the disc in the tray by the time Resistance 2 hit the stores, it would be fair to say the Resistance franchise doesn’t excite me as much as the next FPS … Continue reading »
