Category: Reviews

Wow… Ten gigabyte install” will be the first impression you get from Mercenaries 2 on the PC. It is however justified as Mercenaries 2 has improved vastly over its predecessor in the sense that it is bigger, badder, and more addictive than the previous installment. This time the Mercenaries have stopped off in Venezuela to…

In case you missed all the hullabaloo surrounding Rainbow Six Vegas, the general consensus was that it was a fun game that (largely successfully) minimized the tactical nature of previous Rainbow Six games, and upped the action immensely. A lot of people enjoyed it – and then word came that a sequel would be released…

Quiet! Keep your head down! The Locust are back, and this time they won’t stop until they’ve killed every last one of us. Mankind will never be the same. If we don’t end this soon, we’ve got little chance of survival. Pick up your gun and follow me, Rookie. We can’t afford to make mistakes…

For a game that beds itself in a vast sci-fi milieu, it seems awfully banal to remark first on Eclipse’s menus. The impression is unavoidable, though. Even the title screen is beset by them. Dig deeper, and you’ll find menus stacked inside menus stacked inside menus. There are menus for statistics, menus for exploration and…

Neverwinter Nights 2 was a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it offered up a compelling world, a rich story, and some decent gameplay mechanics. But on the other hand, it was plagued by all sorts of problems, including absurd system requirements and terrible camera options that made it hard for some…

At first glance, you may be forgiven for thinking this is ‘just another tower defence title’; after all, it features towers to block and defend against incoming attackers. However, Defenders of Ardania is a tower wars game, a genre derived from Tower Defence which originated as WarCraft 3 multiplayer mods. The premise is simple: each player releases…

Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers is an intriguing puzzler / platformer from Black Pants Studio. In it, you play as Tiny, a funny little fella whose grandfather recently passed away. Now apparently Gramps was a bit of an adventurer as well, and when he died he bequeathed a very special object to Tiny: his underpants.…

The review for this game has been a long time coming – seriously. Ghostbusters for me, like so many others of my generation, was so much more than a movie; it was a cultural phenomenon. At my house, we had the Ray Parker Jr. 45 that I used to play over and over on our…

“Sometimes, Evil Wins.” That’s Tyranny’s tagline. It’s a strong one, but it’s also inaccurate. It makes sense in a world where light and dark are in contention, but by the time you load into the high fantasy world of Terratus, things are so heavily skewed in evil’s favour that the classic conflict doesn’t mean much.…

It’s a hard road being the perfect manager, and Football Manager 2012 definitely hammers that point home – it’s so in depth it’ll make your head spin, at least at first. As newcomers to the Football Manager series, we take a dive into the world of managing a professional football team – in our case…

Tower Defence, originally invented as a web-based strategy experience, is quite a bit like a real time strategy game. The difference is that your only focus is defense (your goal is to prevent waves of enemies from penetrating your defences and reaching the goal) and you don’t tend to build mobile units, only defensive structures…