Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, the PC original, was a brutally exciting, if a little repetitive, action title.

Its major flaws were a combination of poor design choices (shallow character progression) and lack of play testing (some shocking...

For racing fans eager to obliterate their motors, the Burnout series has always been the way to go. It’s early addiction for dangerous driving being overtaken by “Takeouts”, which saw you rewarded for actively bashing your opponents off the road and into...

For those not in the know, Geometry Wars originally started as a mere mini-game placed in a small corner of the garage in Project Gotham Racing 2. It’s short lived, score obsessed shoot-em-up nature set in place as a brief distraction as the tedium of...

The original Soldier of Fortune shocked all with its gruesome brand of FPS action back in 2000. While many screamed that its sheer existence acted to the detriment of a games industry still seemingly obsessed with violence by the mass media, it somehow...

The arcade light gun game is one we’ve all tried. Who can forget those Saturday afternoons at your local arcade, feeding coin after coin into huge Time Crisis or Virtua Cop cabinets?

For the last few years however, this on-rails brand of...

Stealth focused shooters have always been ten a penny on the Sony consoles. From the Tom Clancy games, to Metal Gear, and even good old Splinter Cell, there’s always been a plethora of goodness to be extracted in this particular genre.

The...

Nintendo have a chubby little plumber. Sega always had a spikey blue sneaker-clad hedgehog. Microsoft came hand in hand with Master Chief, until Bungie upped and scarpered.

As for Sony, they didn’t bother with the traditional method of some...

Back in the glory gaming days of the late80’s/early-90s, games based on film licenses were almost literally ten a penny. It seemed that a quick browse of the shop shelves on any given format would see you confronted with a mass of swiftly produced titles...

The big potential pitfall for the Wii has always been that development teams will merely try and port their already much loved titles from other formats. Might not sound too bad in theory, but who wants to play the same old games with the added bonus...

If Sony are to start shifting PS3s in the kind of number that they truly desire, it's getting titles like SingStar talked about. Come on, who’s mum hasn’t been mildly intrigued when she’s heard you crooning along to some classic track...

Would Tomb Raider have ever been so popular if it didn’t have Lara Croft’s ample bosom?

Uncharted is the latest in a long line of games that’s attempted to find out. Starring an apparent descendent of that legendary explorer Sir Francis...

After the bloody amazingness that was Resident Evil 4, a lot has been expected of Umbrella Chronicles. But rather than simply take the zombie packed series to the next level, Capcom have decided that what we all crave is a Resident Evil based light gun...

It’s hard to imagine gaming life without Guitar Hero. Wielding a small plastic guitar in front of the TV, pretending to play along to some of our all time favourite classic guitar led tracks, is as fun as gaming has ever been. Even if it might look a...

From the developers of the wonderful Hitman series, Io Interactive, comes this crime-based action thriller. Dispensing the stealthy sneak ‘em up that they’re normally used to working on, Kane & Lynch is pure action all the way.

Unlike most...

Hype can sometimes be a ridiculous thing. Especially in the games industry. A few gorgeous looking mocked-up screenshots can sometimes be enough to send us salivating as though Scarlet Johannsen just appeared stark naked on your livingroom sofa. We can...

The build-up of Crysis has typified what most see as the horrible world of PC gaming. Every gloriously detailed screenshot has been fawned over as if it was the epitome of absolute beauty, with all other titles compared to these dazzling early screenshots,...

If you offered me the choice between that gorgeous Scottish city of Edinburgh, and the cockney filled, smog polluted hell-hole of London, you’d not be too shocked to spy me strapping on my kilt, affixing my sporran, and downing more alcohol in an evening...

The old adage of "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" has never rung more true than with the Football Manager series.

Year after year we’ve been handed pretty much the exact same game, but with just the right number of tweaks to push the enjoyment...

We don’t know what’s better. Is it the arrival of a brand spanking new version of Pro Evo each year or flattening your bitterest rivals in a tooth and nail local derby?

The arrival of this year’s Pro Evo has been even more closely scrutinised....

Every PS3 owner out there realises that they’re still a little starved of real quality titles. Yes you have your Ghost Recon 2s, the glorious Colin McRae DiRTs, and the incredibly addictive Skate, but they are all titles that those dirty little Xbox 360...

Spin-offs might be standard fare in the TV industry, but in the gaming realm they’re a little less common. Not that that is particularly a sorry state of affairs – who really wants the gaming equivalent of "Joey" after all?

The Final Fantasy...

What a difference a few months make. Not so long ago we were clamouring for some new racing titles to appear on our Xbox 360’s. Now we have on our hands the forth big name to hit the console in a handful of months. Talk about buses turning up at once…

MySims and the Wii seems an absolutely superb fit. The social interaction of The Sims series of titles from EA, combined with the "fun for all the family" addiction of the Nintendo Wii should make for a game that could easily be the first decent console-based...

Online only gaming is the future. That’s been the calling from a hefty chunk of the gaming world for around about a decade now. The only problem is, outside the incredible World of Warcraft, and the addictive Halo series, there’s been no real poster boys...

Set in an alternate reality, where the paranoia of the Cold War spilled over into full scale Russian aggression, we’ll set our stall out right away and state quite clearly that World in Conflict is something truly special.

With the Russians...