Category: PC

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…

Everyone who plays it says they love Viva Piñata – and if you own a 360, odds are pretty reasonable that it’s a game in your collection. For those of us who have been out of the loop however, we could only turn green with envy as we watched Viva Piñata pronounced as one of…

The challenge of a first-person shooter is the same title from title. Put your crosshairs over the enemy soldiers and pull the trigger. The speed at which you can accomplish this task represents your aptitude in this particular branch of game. It’s odd that this simple and repetitive action could make up the foundation of…

We’ve all seen plentiful variations of Tom Clancy’s military franchise in the gaming world, and to Ubisoft’s credit, they are still trying new things. EndWar is an attempt to incorporate all the realistic political drama of a Clancy novel in an action-packed real time strategy game. Truth be told, EndWar is more action than strategy,…

The original Xbox 360 version of Gears of War was something of a turning point for Microsoft’s latest console. Well, perhaps turning point is the wrong phrase to use, but it was certainly one of the first games around that truly felt ‘next gen’- at least to me. I was impressed not only by the…

In recent years, the Ridge Racer series has persisted by being the only racing game for launching consoles. Once upon a time this was a valuable franchise that people paid attention to, but it has since become difficult to take new entries seriously. The last five years of Ridge Racer just haven’t been very impressive.…

Will Wright’s game of life came out a few months after the world appeared to be going into meltdown with rumours of the millennium bug destroying every computer ever built. Thankfully, our desktops all survived and thus countless hours of real lives were poured into this virtual world of limitless opportunity. Nine years later, the…

Bioware’s 2002 classic Neverwinter Nights practically reinvented the Role Playing genre on PC, adding in copious amounts of nifty new stuff (not least of which was the killer Dungeon Master mode, allowing your pen & paper role playing group to transfer their gaming experience to the computer, complete with a real Dungeon Master pulling the…

Oh yeah, those lovable eyeliner-wearing, grog-swilling, parrot-accessorising scoundrels have come to Sims Land, in this new expansion – er, adventure pack – for The Sims Medieval. Remember The Sims Medieval? It was the breakaway title from EA that took out most of the spontaneous sandbox play from The Sims 3, but then added quests, and put a crown…

The Nazis have been a popular enemy in video games. Easy to vilify with no need for character development, they’ve blown apart many times over. Wolfenstein 3-D has a lot of history, as recently discussed in an article looking back at first-person shooters. It was a visceral video game that saw you battling Nazi forces…