Category: Reviews
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Duke Nukem Forever Review
I’d just been on holiday with a group of friends. I’d seen plenty of sights, including abandoned houses, old churches and rural villages. Here, I’d witnessed a black market of tobacco growing; where it was dried. later rolled and sold wholesale. Three euros for twenty 100% pure cigars. We’d also climbed abandoned buildings and visited…
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Resident Evil 5 (PC) Review
Here’s the deal: this is Resident Evil 5. There’s not much new here. But if you have a decent PC and have a desire to check this one out, you can rest easy in the knowledge that it’s a pretty decent conversion. Not familiar with Resident Evil 5 at all? That’s okay – we have…
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SpaceChem Review
If you had told me a week ago that I’d be completely and utterly addicted to a game where the player does little more than push chemical elements around from one place to another, I really, really, really wouldn’t have believed you. Alright, so SpaceChem, from Zachtronics Industries, is a bit more intricate than that…
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Power Rangers Legends Hands On Preview
It turns out The Incredible Hulk isn’t the only superhero borrowing a few moves from the Infinity Blade series. Saban Brands recently gave us a hands-on demo of their upcoming free-to-play action game Power Rangers Legends, which combines a familiar swipe-based fighting mechanic with characters from the show’s 20-year history. Power Rangers Legends uses the…
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Wolfenstein RPG Review
The Fodor’s Travel Guide to Castle Wolfenstein contains many useful phrases in German, so you can better understand your Axis oppressors as you fill them with lead or strap dynamite to their bodies. While the original Wolfenstein 3D took us on a tour of Nazi castles full of swastikas and dour-looking Hitler portraits, Wolfenstein RPG…
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Max Payne 3 Review
It’s hard to believe that Max Payne has really been gone since 2003. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne didn’t set the world on fire by any means, but the series garnered enough of a cult following thanks to its flashy mechanics and endearing style to make the lack of any follow-up (besides…
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Review
It’s incredible to think about how far Final Fantasy XIV has come. After a disastrous original launch back in 2010, a new development team led by Naoki Yoshida rebuilt the game almost entirely from the ground up, and it was relaunched as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to widespread acclaim. It’s gone from strength…
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Sleeping Dogs Review
Twenty years ago, videogames would be judged solely on one thing: how fun they were to play. Yet “fun” has in recent times become a dubious compliment, a word that suggests archaic thrills in the place of refinement and sophistication. Other art-forms hold a similar aversion to the word and pure enjoyment seems to largely…
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Until Dawn: Rush of Blood Review
Supermassive Games created Until Dawn to turn your expectations of trashy teen horror upside down. Overall I’d say they succeeded – the plot twists and revelations made the game. With Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, the developers tried to do the same thing but for the on-rails shooter genre. I’m not quite sure they were…
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Sorcery 2! Review
In some games, the story is the backdrop, a means to get you from one action setpiece to another. In other games, the story is so deeply integrated into the action that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. In Sorcery 2, the latest choose-your-own-adventure storybook game from Steve Jackson, the story is the…
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Wizorb Review
Tribute Games lives up to its name with Wizorb: a game that’s a tribute to both The Legend of Zelda and ball-bouncing classics Breakout and Arkanoid, melding both styles together surprisingly well. The land of Gorudo is laid to waste by monsters, and only Cyrus the wizard has orbs big enough to take them all…
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Disc Drivin’ Review
UPDATE: April 7th, 2011 Disc Drivin’ recently received another update that gives players three more courses to skate around on, as well as a more eye-pleasing user interface. And in case you have questions about the game, they’ve also added a FAQ. This is a game we’re still playing regularly, so it’s great to see…
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Bad Piggies Review
Oh, those piggies. If you’ve played Angry Birds even once, then you’ve probably fumed at those green piles of pork and their ability to survive entire buildings coming down on their fat heads (yeah, sneer all you want, Porky–at least all your piglets died in the wreck). Rovio is asking a lot by expecting us…
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Beat Hazard Ultra Review
First of all, if you have problems with bright flashing lights, strobe effects, or are simply vulnerable to photosensitive seizures, skip this game and don’t look back, because this is definitely not the game for you. With that aside, Beat Hazard Ultra is a fast arcade-style shooter that is just (potentially) full of energy, and…
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Pickpawcket Review
Anybody moderately literate in art history should have a good time playing through Pickpawcket. The game’s delightful send-ups of the most iconic paintings of the last few centuries are easily the greatest reward the game has to offer. The gameplay itself isn’t tedious or broken, but it’s definitely not the highlight of this title. Pickpawcket…
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Smite Review
Ever since League of Legends exploded a few years back, everyone has wanted to jump on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) bandwagon and get a slice of that eSports money. Some titles – like Dota 2 – carved out their own niche, and are doing well for themselves. Others – like Heroes of Newerth…
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Costume Quest Review
“Costume Quest, like every other Double Fine game before it, can be summed up with one sentence: good game, better concept. The developer has an uncanny knack for creating wonderful characters and worlds, and writing genuinely funny, often engaging storylines, but, when it comes to the actual gameplay, it never quite matches up. It’s Halloween…
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Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus Review
The most impressive Call of Duty game yet has landed on the iPhone, and it’s not even a Call of Duty game– It’s Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus. Topping Modern Combat: Sandstorm in just about every way, this sequel hews closely to the CoD template to offer a robust campaign, plus the best online multiplayer…
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Little Things Forever iPad Review
Little Things is not a flashy game. Chances are, you’ve already played a hidden picture game similar to this before. You stare at a screen packed with tiny images, waiting for a lightbulb to go off in your head as you find an owl, or a cotton swab, or a donut, or whatever is on…
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Runespell Overture Review
We were all arguing the merits of the latest console controllers and we were at the stage where bets were being made and the older team members were starting to reminisce about joysticks. Suddenly the Editor popped his head out of his office and said “who’s up for a review of a game that mixes…