Category: Xbox 360

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We were introduced to the Red Faction series back in 2001 when it show-cased “Geo-Mod” technology – short for “geometry modification”. It gave us never-seen-before destructible environments and allowed players to demolish their surroundings and transform the terrain to their advantage. For example, instead of opening a door like a normal pleb you could blast…

Forza Horizon Review

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Forza Motorsport is a big name when it comes to Xbox racing games, and over the years it has gained a dedicated and loyal following of motorsport fans. It’s known for its commitment to combining realism, highly accurate performance modelling, and stunning graphics, with a great multiplayer model and an exceptional level of car customisation.…

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Review

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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was one of the best titles on the Xbox. Now after fives years we have the follow up, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Fresh out of prison, our titular hero finds himself on a Mercenary ship. His next course of action? Kill them and…

OutRun Online Arcade Review

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in PS 3, Reviews, Xbox 360

OutRun is one of the first games I remember playing, and one of the largest milestones for the racing genre. Hitting the arcades in the mid/late eighties, OutRun was flasher and faster than anything before it. One aspect of the game still fondly looked back at was how there was an intersection at the end…

The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (XBLA) Review

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in PC, Reviews, Xbox 360

Nostalgia is a funny beast. It can make you go to great lengths, and yet leave you hanging right at the end. Take me, for example: I’ve gone to great lengths to re-live my Sega Saturn days. I’ve re-bought a Saturn, and re-bought many of the games I used to own on it (except Sonic…

Madballs (XBLA) Review

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in PC, Reviews, Xbox 360

Skipping straight past all the Madballs jokes I thought of when I first heard I was reviewing this title, I guess we had better start with just what a Madball is. While I certainly don’t remember the TV show from the ’80’s, I do think I may have had some of the toys. Madballs were…

Phantasy Star II (XBLA) Review

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One of those rare RPGs to be set in a space-based future, Phantasy Star was epic and awesome for more than just that reason. Its gameplay and characters were incredibly memorable and playing through the games was all the evidence gamers of 1989 (yep, this game was first released twenty years ago!) needed to justify…

Droplitz (XBLA) Review

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Okay, I’ll do it. I’ll be brutally honest from the start. I wasn’t really prepared to like Droplitz. A whole game similar to the least entertaining part of Bioshock, huh? But for the sake of Gameskeys, I’ll do it. I’ll trudge through a completely uninspiring dull puzzle game. Now don’t get me wrong, there are…

Mass Effect 3 Review

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in PC, PS 3, Reviews, Wii U, Xbox 360

Mass Effect 3 was one of the most anticipated games of the year, and promised to put the wraps on BioWare’s grand space adventure trilogy. When it arrived, the game was genuinely epic in content, but fan reaction to the game’s ending managed to outshine it even so. Threats of legal action, closed writing sessions…

Prototype Review

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Prototype puts you in the shoes of Alex Mercer, an everyman who for some reason wakes up on a slab at the county morgue. Why is he there? How is he no longer dead? What’s going wrong in the city? What’s going wrong with him?! Prototype is the latest sandbox game to come out of…

Banjo-Tooie Review

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Back in the days of the good ol’ Nintendo 64, a little developer from Blighty almost couldn’t seem to put a step wrong. Rare were churning out A+++ titles, paw over claw. The original Banjo-Kazooie pushed the N64 like no game before it, featuring unbelievably rich graphics and, of course, winning game play. The sequel,…

Mass Effect 2 Review

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Bioware knows RPGs. They’ve been cranking them out since Jesus was a carpenter and they’re still in business for one very good reason: they’re damn good at what they do. Their back catalogue reads like a “best ever RPGs” list, with classics like Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age to name but two…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled (XBLA) Review

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Some of our older readers may remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time on the Super Nintendo or the co-op version in the arcade. Now Konami has had Ubisoft remake the classic, adding the subtitle “Re-shelled” along with giving the visuals an HD overhaul and adding Xbox Live support. In case you haven’t played…

Flock Review

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Flock seems like a childish title on the surface, but like many Xbox Live Arcade titles of this ilk, first impressions most definitely deceive. The premise is that you control an alien space craft, on a quest to round up sheep, cows, chickens and pigs to your mothership, dubbed as the ‘motherflocker’. You do this…

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (XBLA) Review

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in PS 3, Reviews, Xbox 360

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was one of the best games of the last generation and it’s not hard to see why: it had popular characters such as Wolverine, Ryu, Morrigan and Captain America going at it and a ton of characters to unlock. Now it’s back on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Arcade. For…

Worms 2: Armageddon Review

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The Worms franchise has been around for a long time – the first title, Worms, came out in 1995. Since then, there have been a total of 16 Worms titles – including three spinoff titles and a Korean-exclusive online-only variant. Worms 2: Armageddon, then, is about as accurately a numbered sequel as anything in the…

Mortal Kombat Review

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in PS 3, Reviews, Vita, Xbox 360

Mortal Kombat is a reboot of the decades-old franchise that started life as a game. Originally released on PS3 and 360 last year, the fighter has finally battled its way onto Sony’s shiny new pocketable PlayStation. Is it a match made in heaven? In short, the answer to that question is yes. In long, it’s…

Dragon Age II Review

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I was pretty excited when I first laid my greedy eyes on Bioware’s Dragon Age II. The first one sucked up a good portion of my time, and though it had its flaws, in its own special way it did a satisfying job of sating my grumbling RPG urges. So it was a little unfair…

Fable III Review

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in PC, Reviews, Xbox 360

I’m always slightly shocked when I come across something really silly in a game with otherwise serious production values – after all, the game industry is big business, with massive budgets poured into spangly titles. Are developers really going to put budget into enabling a really good belch for your character? Well, if the developer…

Overlord II Review

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