Category: Reviews

Sega Mega Drive Classics Collection

PC / Reviews

15 Sep, 2010

Sega Mega Drive Classics Collection review

Sega’s favourite Mega Drive games have been repackaged and rereleased so many times it’s hard to keep up. You can get a decent disc’s worth of Mega Drive games on the PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 and, shoot, even the Saturn and Gameboy Advance have had a go. Downloadable versions of their greatest hits are available everywhere, from XBLA to PSN to Virtual Console to iTunes to Steam to I don’t even know what’s left. You can also pop into a toy shop and get a Plug ‘n’ Play joystick or a handheld Mega Drive to play wherever you like....

Kane and Lynch 2 Dog Days

PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

10 Sep, 2010

Kane and Lynch 2 Dog Days review

The first Kane and Lynch game was a bit of a disappointment really. The controls weren’t great, it screamed for a co-op mode but didn’t have one and felt disjointed. This sequel aims to fix all that and in some ways it does and some ways it doesn’t. So years later, Lynch is living in Shanghai and Kane comes to see him for one last money making exercise – an arms deal. This soon goes wrong when they accidentally kill a very powerful kingpin’s daughter and the whole of China seems to be after them. Cue lots of running and...

Ninety Nine Nights 2

Reviews / Xbox 360

10 Sep, 2010

Ninety Nine Nights 2 review

I’ve never heard of the original Ninety-Nine Nights but you don’t need to have played the first game to understand what’s going on in this sequel. Basically it’s the usual fantasy story of an evil army horde invading and you being the good guys trying to stop it. Along a similar vein to the Dynasty Warriors games you fight thousands of enemies as one of 5 lone combatants as you hack and slash heads and limbs off your enemies to get to the other side of the level. And these levels are large and take a while to get through...

R Type

PSP / Reviews

7 Sep, 2010

R Type review

When it comes to examples of old-skool gaming, you can’t do much better than a classic side-scrolling shoot-’em-up, and for those who grew up with the videogame industry, R-Type is one of the definitive examples of the genre, having started life as an arcade coin-op (back when arcade games cost just 10p a go!) and subsequently ported, reinvented and reimagined many, many times over on countless different videogame formats. The premise is simple: fly from left to right within a limited one-screen high environment while spacecraft, robots, bugs, missiles and the very landscape itself does its absolute best to kill...

Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies

DS / Reviews

24 Aug, 2010

Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies review

It may initially seem like an odd move for the latest Dragon Quest RPG to appear on the DS but I think it’s a good thing. Because they take an age to play I don’t actually feel like I’m wasting my time when playing it on the move. In this game you play as a guardian angel called a Celestrian who, thanks to a mishap at the beginning of the game, is thrown down to earth minus wings and a halo. You then gather a team and explore the land and do all the usual role-playing stuff you’d expect from...

Blacklight Tango Down

PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

24 Aug, 2010

Blacklight Tango Down review

If you’ve never played recent Call of Duty multiplayer or want something a little more futuristic when it comes to shooting complete strangers in the face then you could download Blacklight: Tango Down onto your console for about $15. You won’t get any single player experience for your money but you will get a tight multiplayer game with a few different game modes and plenty of upgrades for your weapons. You won’t find any plot as such in the game itself but by reading the blurb in the ‘how to play’ section you’ll learn that you’ll be playing as one...

Follow: