Category: Reviews

Sony Playstation Network Card

PS3 / Reviews

12 Oct, 2009

Heavy Weapon review

In these days of ‘super consoles’, it’s easy to forget what videogames used to be like. Back when games consoles didn’t have enough processing power to run a good-sized Nuclear submarine, and it wasn’t possible to create the massive virtual worlds for the gamer to run around in that you see today, games had to be smaller, and simpler. The upside of this was that the developers had to focus on making the gameplay so addictive that the graphics and the sound and everything else wasn’t quite so important. As a result, game concepts tended to be more straightforward than...

Order of War

PC / Reviews

9 Oct, 2009

Order of War review

Here’s something you don’t see every day, Square Enix making a World War II strategy game which covers real historical events and not a role playing game which involves pointy eared characters in some fantasy land. Order of War focuses on the end of World War II and is set in the 40s as you push back the German Axis from France or play as the German army trying to repel the Red Army from the East. A couple of years back Company of Heroes did a good job of telling this story so how does this RTS shape up?...

Guitar Hero 5 picture

PS2 / PS3 / Reviews / Wii / Xbox 360

9 Oct, 2009

Guitar Hero 5 review

So Guitar Hero 5 is available in the shops and the good news is this doesn’t feel like just some more songs to jam along to slightly repackaged. It is in fact quite a leap forward for the game both in terms of graphical style and the way the game plays. First of all let’s cover the track list. There are 85 songs on this and as usual, some you’ll know, some you won’t, depending on your musical taste. Queen, Muse, Nirvana and Garbage all appear amongst others and you can even unlock guest characters such as Shirley Manson, Santana...

Halo 3 ODST

Reviews / Xbox 360

5 Oct, 2009

Halo 3 ODST review

You’d have to have been living on a desert island for the last few years (and one without an internet connection at that) not to have heard of Halo. The first game showed the world the real potential that lay ahead for console online multiplayer gaming (and for a while, at least, silenced the multitude of PC owners who’d been ranting on for years that you ‘couldn’t do proper multiplayer deathmatch on a console’) as well as introducing the gaming world to the Master Chief, one of the coolest and most instantly recognisable characters to hit the videogame console since...

The King Of Fighters XII

PS3 / Reviews / Xbox 360

5 Oct, 2009

The King Of Fighters XII review

I recently watched Charlie Brooker (of The Guardian’s Screenburn column and BBC’s Screenwipe) in his new show Gameswipe, in which basically his career came more-or-less full circle, he having started off as a games journalist, made it into TV, and then come back to reviewing videogames again. Mr Brooker managing to make the leap from games journo to TV ‘star’, despite having many of the traits of your average videogame journo – lack of film-star looks (when watching him on TV, you can’t help feeling that somewhere back in his family tree a Cabbage Patch doll had an affair with...

Rygar The Battle of Argus

Reviews / Wii

2 Oct, 2009

Rygar The Battle of Argus review

Ideas are complicated business. It’s often quite difficult to work out who came up with what and in what order they did so. For example, most gamers would take one look at Rygar: The Battle of Argus on the Wii and disclaim “God of War rip-off!”. After all, the weapons are there, the mythology is there, the crazy ass mammoth bosses are there. But look again, most gamers! Rygar was originally released on the PlayStation 2, three years before God of War blew your eyes out. So give it some credit. Although, yes, that does mean that Rygar is seven...

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