Category: Reviews

Blur

PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

1 Jul, 2010

Blur review

I’m not a fan of realistic racing games, I much prefer the Burnout school of racing where the action is fast and furious and the car physics doesn’t mean you have to slow down too much for a bend. Either your car grips to the road like a go-kart or you drift round the corners as if driving on ice. Thankfully Blur is in this fantasy racing category where the speed never lets up and you have the added joy of power-ups. Think of it like Mario Kart with muscle cars or WipeOut on wheels. The idea of the game...

Sin and Punishment Successor of the Skies

Reviews / Wii

1 Jul, 2010

Sin and Punishment Successor of the Skies review

Sin and Punishment is an on-rails shooter on the Wii which sees you running and flying around a number of crazy locations shooting everything in sight. The difference being, unlike recent shooters on the Wii, this time around it’s not a first-person view you play in and instead you play the game Space Harrier style as you not only shoot things but have to watch where your little man on the screen is too if you don’t want to die early. The story is the usual Japanese crazy stuff I don’t understand. Isa Jo and Kachi are the two main...

ModNation Racers

PS3 / PSP / Reviews

21 Jun, 2010

ModNation Racers review

When it comes to kart racing games, the market has generally been dominated by Nintendo – ask just about any gamer to name a kart racing title and chances are one of the first they’d think of would be Mario Kart. This is probably because when Nintendo first came up with the idea of sticking Mario, Luigi et al in little go-karts for a racing game, they got it pretty-much right first time and since then most companies that have tried to change the formula have created games which simply don’t measure up. Those which have worked – Diddy Kong...

Red Dead Redemption

PC / PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

15 Jun, 2010

Red Dead Redemption review

It’s easy to just label Red Dead Redemption as GTA 4 on horseback but actually it’s more than that and thankfully presents an original concept in an age where the market’s full of shooters, racing games and family titles. So, in this Western you play as John Marston, a man who’s trying to be good after leaving a gang of naughty people. He’s come to the Wild West to confront the gang leader and stop him before he goes after John’s wife and kids. After being shot at the start of the game he’s taken in by some of the...

Screenshot of Super Mario Galaxy 2

Reviews / Wii

15 Jun, 2010

Super Mario Galaxy 2 review

I was actually taken by surprise when Super Mario Galaxy 2 dropped through my door. Even though it’s been three years since the first game, I really wasn’t expecting it to be out so soon. So I put the disc in expecting it to be more of the same and it is – only far more streamlined with loads more variety. Once again the Princess has been captured and off you zoom through the galaxy to rescue her from Bowser. This time you travel around the world map on a spaceship shaped like Mario’s head and collect stars in order...

3D Dot Game Heroes

PS3 / Reviews

10 Jun, 2010

3D Dot Game Heroes review

They say honesty is the best policy and I for one am not going to start lying to you now. My first experience of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series was Link’s Awakening on the Gameboy and I didn’t enjoy it all that much. What you have to remember is that back then when I was just 10 years old and had been absorbed by games such as Mortal Kombat. It wasn’t really until the Nintendo 64 game Ocarina of Time that Zelda became a relevance to me. Of course as I grew older and wiser I started to appreciate...

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