Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood campaign review
Templar agents appear to have infiltrated Ubisoft’s mastering labs, and are doing their utmost to prevent the spread of the Creed. The debug code we received last week had corrupted files, and while...
View ArticleCall of Duty: Black Ops review – a tale of two shooters
This review is pointless. As I type these words, Treyarch’s latest Call of Duty is stampeding off shelves worldwide, cheerfully tweaking the cheeks of products unwise enough to contest its...
View ArticleFight Night Champion – forget the M-rating, has the fighting engine evolved?
Brian Hayes wants to tell the world about Fight Night Champion, but “Boxer of the 1990s” Roy Jones Junior won’t let him. Jones is being a right old pain in the arse, actually, a real party pooper....
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer review
Our thoughts on Brotherhood’s multiplayer were stalled by launch server hiccups. Read about the campaign here, and scroll down for the score. After three interviews, two previews, an opinion piece, a...
View ArticleCould this be the indie lover’s Bioshock? Raw Games talks The Spire
The year is 2029, the nations of the Earth are locked in a brawl over scarce supplies of fossil fuel, and David Samuel Maher, a bald chap with disconcertingly blue eyes, has just awoken in the depths...
View ArticleBreach review – the poor man’s Call of Duty
Guts certainly aren’t in short supply at Atomic Games. With Breach, the Six Days in Fallujah developer isn’t simply jockeying for a place in the crowded multiplayer shooter market – feature-wise, it’s...
View ArticlePortal 2 hands-on – a robot hug is worth a thousand words
Watch out, newbies – contains Portal plot spoilers. In a sense, the reason Portal’s GLaDOS is such a great villain is that she’s an utterly terrible one. Convinced of her superior intelligence, and...
View ArticleValve talks Portal 2 –“more complexity, but not necessarily difficulty”
In 2011, the first-person shooter is everywhere. No knot of waving ferns, wooden shack, look-out tower or section of crumbling wall is free from its influence. Between the Battlefields and the...
View ArticleWho’s That Flying?! review – schmup, meet Horde mode
Having crumpled my ego against the homely 2D shooter time and time again in the two score years I’ve been playing videogames, I’ve come to think of it not so much as a genre as a force of nature – an...
View ArticleHunted: The Demon’s Forge – dungeon crawling for the Uncharted generation
There’s a key line of dialogue towards the beginning of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, a pivotal point in the game’s opening hour. Big sweaty bald man Caddoc and foxy Elf chum E’lara are strolling through...
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