I’ve absolutely no qualms with admitting that two of my most replayed titles from the last few years have been the Max Payne action based shoot-em-ups. It might lack the kind of depth and story that most gaming critics clamour for, but it made up for...

I hate to use the term "rip-off" too cheaply, but have a glance at the screenshots for Two Worlds, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d slipped 2 years back in time and you were peeking at the initial screens of the incredible Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

While Medal of Honor’s fellow WWII-based shooting-based series, Call of Duty, may be looking to modern conflicts for inspiration, MoH is still firmly dug in to WWII.

Those brave paratroopers who plummeted deep behind enemy lines are the focus...

Yearly updates can be frustrating things. You shell out a huge lump of your hard earned cash on the latest and greatest release, only to find yourself splashing out all over again a year later for a barely improved version of the same game.

Every gamer out there can’t have failed to hear all about Bioshock. Billed as an FPS set in a mysterious underground art-deco dwelling known as Rapture, the hype has been building for an incredible amount of time. But can it really be even half as good...

Safe to say that the brand of football currently on most UK sporting fans lips is the one packed with new foreign owners, slightly dodgy Swedish managers, and even a former Prime Minister of Taiwan. You don’t get that kind of excitement in cricket or...

With its huge success on Nintendo’s dinky little DS, it’s no surprise to find Big Brain Academy finding its way onto the Wii.

Playing such a huge part in selling the handheld system to the kind of folks who’d never previously dreamed of...

Nintendo seem determined to dispel this myth that their consoles are just for the kiddies. Not only do they unleash the brutal Resident Evil 4 on an unsuspecting public, but tempt us to take control of Tony Montana

Colin McRae may not be the rallying force he once was, but his games always take pole in the sales charts.

Debuting on Sony’s aging PS1, the series has always been about flinging your motor around a series of muddy bends. While other titles...

Few of you would put Bill Gates on your Christmas card list, but you’ve got to thank Microsoft for bringing online gaming to the masses.

Latest stats show around half of all Xbox 360 owners log on to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service on a regular...

Since the tyre shreddingly gorgeous Project Gotham Racing 3, the Xbox 360 has been sorely lacking in classy racers.

Microsoft has finally decided to unleash their great racing beast onto the unsuspecting 360 owning public. We wondered what...

Could it really be 10 years since we first saw Lara Croft’s ample bosom? Amazingly enough, it’s actually 11 years before her maiden voyage. That little fact making me feel quite ridiculously old. Though it makes it clearer why they dropped the "10th"...

When Ratchet and Clank – Size Matters was announced as a PSP exclusive, haters of the dinky handheld console had yet another clip of ammo added to their “but it’s only a handheld PS2” weaponry. The daft sods.

Starting life way back in the...

2004’s PS2 based Spider-Man 2 release still stands as one of gaming’s better examples of how to take the big screen action, and transfer it perfectly to a gaming format, and when you remember there’s hundreds of the buggers out there, that’s a nice tag...

You all remember God of War, right? Yes, the bloody, balls out, action based wanderer and brawler that stands tall as one of the best games of the last decade. If the answer to that question happens to be no, then give yourself ten lashings for missing...

Ho hum, yet another World War II first person shooter. Call of Duty rules this particular roost these days, so Vanguard has got to be something pretty special to get our pulses racing.

We’re surprised by how little has been said about this...

Most of us would like to think of ourselves as ambitious, but our trials are nothing compared with the developers of Shadow of Chernobyl. They’ve been beavering away on this massive nuclear wasteland for over half a decade.

Set in the exclusion...

For all you console gamers out there, it’s worth pointing out a fact. Command & Conquer is one of the biggest PC games of all time.

C&C redefined real time strategy gaming. Things haven’t been the same since the battle between the goodies...

You racing obsessed gamers have no doubt been playing Burnout for years now. Famed for its fast and frenetic racing action, the series has always been king for driving fans who prefer something a little different from straight racing.

Packing...

We’re used to games about humans knocking seven bells out of each other. Vehicles doing the same though? That’s much more rare.

The original Full Auto – a minor hit on the Xbox 360 at launch – combined fast and furious driving with combat...

If you read our views on EA’s last Godfather title, you’ll know just what to expect here.

Making its first appearance way back in the early months of 2006, this Grand Theft Auto style free roaming driver and shooter simply didn’t cut the...

Ah, this game takes us back. The Warriors started out as a 1979 Walter Hill film about a group of misfits running riot on Coney Island. Despite its poor box office performance, the film gained cult status thanks to huge DVD sales.

Ever seeking...

While the SSX timeline is filled to bursting point with hastily put together sequels, the series has been constant about two things.

First, it’s always been about speeding down a snowy mountainside with a thin board strapped to your feet....

While there’s some great golf games around, the controls have always been, forgive the pun, a little below par. Pressing one button to initiate a golf swing and another for the power may give you a fair degree of accuracy, but it’s no substitute for holding...

Publishers can be crafty devils. They’ll do anything to make us poor downtrodden reviewers try any old game. A classic trick is to bundle potentially rubbish titles with early versions of guaranteed best sellers, so when Crackdown arrived sellotaped to...