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Left 4 Dead 2 - Xbox 360 / PC - First Look review
FIRST LOOK Is this really a new game? 30 October 2009 17:15 GMT TweetValve is widely regarded as one of the best videogame developers active today. As creators of Half-life, Half-life 2, and Left 4 Dead, and buying up the mod teams responsible for Portal, Counterstrike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat, the company has...
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Resident Evil 5 - Xbox 360 review
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Horror hits Africa
12 March 2009 12:00 GMT
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After the sheer brilliance that was Resident Evil 4, what on earth could Capcom do to top one of gaming’s true classics? Well, if Resident Evil 5 is anything to go by, simply churn out a whole new batch of the same old action.
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Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - Wii review
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Horrific Wii-port?
4 March 2009 16:00 GMT
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Released way back in 2006 on the Xbox 360, Dead Rising was an enjoyable zombie-packed romp. It packed potentially hundreds of zombies on screen at any one time, and you had the chance to obliterate them in any way you saw fit. Only an irritating save...
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House of the Dead: Overkill - Nintendo Wii review
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Zombie slaying at its best?
18 February 2009 9:00 GMT
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Once upon a time, the light gun genre was popular enough to flog a console all on its own. The likes of Sega’s sublime Virtua Cop series, and Sony’s Time Crisis titles consistently stood tall in “game of the year” lists, and offered some of the greatest...
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FEAR 2: Project Origin - Xbox 360 review
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Scary the second time round?
11 February 2009 9:00 GMT
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The original FEAR gained a deserved following thanks to Monolith’s brilliant combination of fantastic FPS play, a well implemented bullet time esque slow down feature, and some of the scariest gameplay ever witnessed.
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Silent Hill Homecoming - PS3 review
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Can a sixth outing have you hiding behind the sofa once again?
9 February 2009 16:00 GMT
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Silent Hill is back for yet another scary outing - this is the sixth in the series - but has the franchise still got what it takes to make us jump with fright? We turn the lights off and the PS3 on to find out.
Silent Hill Homecoming is the... -
Saw 3 - DVD review
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Back for a third instalment but should we bother?
3 March 2007 9:00 GMT
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Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), the mastermind behind a series of life and death games, has escaped from the police. But he's now dying so his punk sidekick Amanda kidnaps brilliant surgeon, Dr Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soometh) to keep him alive until one last game is...
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The Wicker Man - DVD review
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Ghastly remake or worthwhile movie?
4 February 2007 13:00 GMT
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Edward Woodward starred in the original 1973 B-movie horror classic about a copper who falls foul of a group of weird religious fanatics on a remote Scottish island.
This time round Californian cop Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) gets a letter... -
Severance - DVD review
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The Office meets Deliverance or Hostel meets Shaun of the Dead?
24 January 2007 11:00 GMT
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Billed as “The Office meets Deliverance” - although more like Hostel crossed with Shaun of the Dead for our money - Severance is a surprisingly entertaining British comedy-horror.
Seven colleagues (led by Danny Dyer’s “Steve” who boasts... -
The Omen - DVD review
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Can the remake add anything to the classic 70s movie?
31 October 2006 11:00 GMT
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Yet another 70s horror remake (this year we’ve already seen retreads of “The Hills Have Eyes”, “When a Stranger Calls” and “The Fog”) that sees Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles stepping into the shoes of Gregory Peck and Lee Remick from Richard Donner’s...
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Slither - DVD review
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Loving tribute to B-Movie horrors of the early-80s or one to avoid?
27 October 2006 12:00 GMT
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Fed up with his nubile young wife (Banks) always claiming she’s “got a headache”, Grant (Rooker) heads off to the local karaoke bar and picks up the first old slapper he can find for a bit of late night action.
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When a Stranger Calls - DVD review
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Yet another horror remake from the 70s, but can this one scare?
25 September 2006 0:00 GMT TweetYet another remake of a “classic” 70s horror (surely there can’t be many left now?) that no-one has ever heard of. After racking up a hefty $500 mobile phone bill talking to her dimwit boyfriend, high school student Camilla (Belle) is forced into taking...
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The Dark - DVD review
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Sean Bean ditches the English villain role, but is this a horror that scares?
20 September 2006 11:00 GMT
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Sean Bean takes a break from playing posh English villains to star in this bonkers horror about Celtic myths in Wales. When 8-year-old Sarah (Stuckey) drowns in a freak accident Adelle (Bello) becomes plagued by visions that make her believe her daughter...
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Silent Hill - DVD review
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Hollywood has once again turned to videogames for inspiration. We get ready to hide behind the sofa
8 September 2006 13:38 GMT
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Okay, we all probably remember getting scared playing the first episode of this horror game, but like so many before it, Hollywood has once again turned to videogames for inspiration, so does Silent Hill work as a movie? We get ready to hide behind the...
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Hostel - DVD review
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Can this really be the sickest film ever legally made?
16 August 2006 12:17 GMT
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Hostel is a Sado-horror chiller directed by Eli "Cabin Fever" Roth and executive produced by gore aficionado Quentin Tarantino.
It’s the usual horror fest story; College jocks Paxton (Hernandez) and Josh (Richardson) team up with wacky Icelander...
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