• WWE '12 Review - Xbox 360

  28 Nov 2011

  Yukes have gone and done it - reinvented the tired wrestling genre. WWE 12 harks back to what made the wrestling games of years gone by so special, chunky controls, satisfying slams and slightly awkward backstage brawls.

  

• Mercury Hg Review

  09 Nov 2011

  Mercury, an early title for Sony’s PSP system, was a game built on nostalgia. Its mechanics took much from classic puzzle game Marble Madness and its simple premise seemed out of place next to complicated and thoroughly modern contemporaries.

  

• Swarm Review

  08 Jun 2011

  There’s been something of a resurgence of difficult platforming games in recent years. From Megaman’s hardcore revival to indie darlings such as Splosion Man and Super Meat Boy, the masochistic gamer hasn’t been this happy for years.

  

• LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Review

  07 Jun 2011

  The Star Wars universe is huge, and has so much potential for computer games cross-overs; combine this with the fun world of LEGO, and you have a great little treat on your hands.

  

• Zumba Fitness Review

  19 Apr 2011

  Videogames are generally seen as a form of escape. Like film or literature, they are a portal to another world, usually one filled with adventure and fantast. But the emergence of motion control has expanded the market to games with a broader appeal - non-traditional titles that have more in common with software. Zumba is such a title.

  

• Dance Central Review

  14 Apr 2011

  Take the dance mat games of old, and mix them with the Kinect’s motion capturing hardware, and you have yourself Dance Central. You follow the moves on screen, trying to match them perfectly in order to achieve a higher score; the concept is very simple, but oh so very effective and so much fun.

  

• Beyond Good & Evil HD Review

  13 Apr 2011

  When you think back on a game, what thoughts do you have? There are a lot that are generic and indescribable; linear roller-coaster shooters that hardly linger in the mind, sports games with so little difference that they all blur into one mess of mediocrity, adventure games in which the adventure is no more than firing bullets into enemies from a third-person perspective.

  

• Kinect Adventures Review

  12 Apr 2011

  The mini-game collection has had a second-wind since the industry went motion control crazy with the advent of the Wii in 2006. Now all developers’ ideas that were too thin to be stretched into a full game can be combined into a patchwork of partially-realised mechanics and ideas!

  

• Crysis 2 Review

  22 Mar 2011

  Very few people got the pleasure of playing Crysis 1; a technically masterful game set on a beautiful free-roam island. The game required a super-computer for you to be able to play on it, which left many PC owners (including myself), feeling disappointed and upset that their feeble machine couldn’t run it.

  

• Homefront Review

  08 Mar 2011

  The first person shooter genre is oversaturated with content. Look away for a second, and by the time you look back, another shooter will have sprung up from nowhere. The truth is shooters are becoming the second go to genre for the casual player, placed very closely after football games (Fifa we are looking at you.)

  

• Dragon Age 2 Review

  07 Mar 2011

  Once again, developers Bioware bring you back to their fantasy world of Dragons, sorcery and swords. As a follow up to the 2009 cult hit Dragon Age: Origins, the sequel does a fantastic job of retaining the original games charm and adds a layer of shiny looking polish.

  

• Xbox Live Arcade Pick: Super Meat Boy

  16 Feb 2011

  Super Meat Boy is developed directly from an online flash version game of the same name, coming from the masterminds Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes. The game begins very much in the same way that Super Mario Brothers does. The protagonist, named Meat Boy, has his girlfriend Bandage Girl stolen away from him by the dastardly Dr Fetus. It is of course your duty as the controller of Meat Boy, to help him traverse the various two dimensional landscapes that are littered with traps, enemies and spinning meat grinders, to rescue your beloved girlfriend.

  

• Dead Space 2 Review

  24 Jan 2011

  Developed again by Visceral Games, Dead Space 2 is the survival horror game that puts you in the space-engineer boots of Isaac Clarke. After suffering the atrocities of the first game (that you really must pick up and play if you haven’t done so yet; if not to just appreciate the full story), Isaac awakens in a psychiatric ward on the Sprawl, a gigantic space city on one of Saturn’s moons. In typical psychiatric patient style, he can’t remember any of the past three years. To cut the story short, a viral outbreak has caused the entire population to turn into violent and deformed monsters called Necromorphs, as Isaac you simply have to escape whilst fighting off your psychological demons. Easy enough right?

  

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Review

  17 Nov 2010

  Not prepared to drop the series’ most successful and interesting character yet, Ubisoft have brought back Ezio Auditore for another round; the 20 plus hours of gameplay and a brand new multiplayer mode prove that this is no add-on-pack, but rather the best Assassins creed yet.

  

• Call of Duty: Black Ops review

  09 Nov 2010

  You’ve got to feel sorry for Treyarch. One of Activision’s unfairly derided workhorse developers, they’ve yet again got the task of working on what’s ostensibly the off year for the multi-million selling Call of Duty franchise.