Category: Reviews

Alien Breed Evolution Episode One

Reviews / Xbox 360

13 Jan, 2010

Alien Breed Evolution Episode One review

The Alien Breed franchise was a runaway success back in the days of Amiga’s and Atari’s, so of course it was destined to be revived in the age of digital downloads. Following on from the glorious revival of their Worms franchise on Xbox Live Arcade, Team 17 have dug through their archives, pulled out the dusty old folder labelled ‘Dark and Gritty Top-Down Shooters from the Nineties’, grinned a wide grin and declared to themselves: “This shall be awesome… again!“. And so, Alien Breed Evolution was born. Episode One is the first of three episodes in this fancy new reboot...

Madden 10

Reviews / Wii

12 Jan, 2010

Madden 10 review

I can’t say I’m a big fan of what we in the UK call American Football (or just Football to the Americans themselves). Yes I’ve played a few games in the Madden series before (most notably the original on the Commodore Amiga) but even so the series for the most past makes me go, meh. Can Madden 10 for Wii with its family friendly graphics and control system win me over? It’s time for a review of Madden 10 for Wii. If you’re unfamiliar with American Football I will try to explain the rules in the most basic fashion I...

Darksiders

PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

12 Jan, 2010

Darksiders review

Plumbers and electricians don’t like to be called out unnecessarily and neither does War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Instead of just issuing the powers that be a bill for a callout, he’s decided to get revenge for this unnecessary trickery by working for The Council and ripping out the hearts of some big beasts in the form of some brutal if a little easy boss fights. Darksiders is a third-person action adventure and if you’ve played Devil May Cry or God of War then you’ll see the similarities here. War has a number of different weapons...

Rabbids Go Home screenshot

Reviews / Wii

12 Jan, 2010

Rabbids Go Home review

Moving away from the party mini games of its predecessors, Rabbids Go Home takes the collect ‘em up ethos of the Katamari games and puts the silly Raving Rabbids twist on it as they try to collect as much stuff as they can from the human world to make a pile big enough so they can get to the moon. All they want is a good kip so they think the best way is to run about the place with a shopping trolley and literally scare the pants off the poor stick-thin humans. This game is laugh out loud funny...

Planet 51 The Game

DS / PS3 / Reviews / Wii / Xbox 360

11 Jan, 2010

Planet 51 The Game review

I’ve been a big fan of computer generated animation since it started to appear in movies in the 1980’s. When films such as Toy Story, Shrek and Monsters Inc hit the big screen I was instantly grabbed and whisked away into my idea of heaven. After such successes from Pixar and DreamWorks at the box office it’s quite understandable that other movie studios jumped on the bandwagon and started producing CGI movies of their own. As expected, these new movies were quite poor and rather formulaic. After trying their best to copy what made Pixar’s movies great, these other studios...

Avatar The Game

DS / PC / PS2 / PS3 / PSP / Reviews / Wii / Xbox 360

7 Jan, 2010

Avatar The Game review

I don’t like the look of James Cameron’s Avatar movie because it’s got blue people in it. I’ve never liked The Smurfs and I don’t like tall blue people either. Anyway, people tell me it’s actually quite good so I may have to go and see it but in the meantime I’ll tell you about the game. Using the same idea but not following the plot of the film, you play as Ryder, a soldier for a military group called the RDA who are inhabiting a planet called Pandora full of viscous creatures and plants and an indigenous race of...

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