Risen

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In true ‘ye olde’ style, players take control of a character who washes up on the shores of a volcanic island and has to build himself up into a force to be reckoned with – so far, so RPG. You will be able to specialise in the usual magic, strength and all the normal RPG […]

EYE PET

Sony’s Eye Pet mission is to make you believe that the cheerful monkey/kitten/puppy thing on your TV is a living, breathing creature. By using the PS3 camera to combine you and your living room with their impish rogue, you’ll find yourself reaching towards the floor to stroke his floppy ears. And he is certainly loveable. […]

Tekken 6

Tekken has grown sillier as the years have gone by. It’s now filled with animals, wooden men and robots. And for every time the series has gotten a shade sillier, it’s grown a little bit fatter and more sluggish. Since day one, the Tekken team’s answer to everything has been more with no limit on […]

GTA: Chinatown Wars

When Rockstar first made Chinatown Wars, they tailored every aspect of Grand Theft Auto to fit the DS. Out went the perspective, replaced with a top down view similar to the early games; out went the voice-overs and one of the game’s islands; in went frequent mini-games suited to the touchscreen. They published the DS […]

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2

As a tribute to the source material, Arkham Asylum 2 is superb. The story, scripted by longtime Animated Series Writer Paul Dini, is a twisty affair where the Joker is incarcerated in the titular asylum, before breaking out and putting the Dark Knight through a series of challenges, ranging from the difficult to the annoying. […]

DJ Hero 2

Everybody knows Badger loves mashed potato (well, everyone, who’s familiar with Nineties kid’s television, anyway), but what few know is how Badger feels about the close namesake of his favorite food – the mash-up. In fact, not everybody actually knows what mash-ups are. This is practically because, being mostly an underground phenomenon, they don’t have […]

SmackDown Vs Raw 2011

If you’ve have been a hardened fan of the SmackDown series for a few years, the same question is always asked as the next one creeps onto the radar; just what can Yuke’s do to keep the franchise both relevant and visible? Before 2008, it was getting the game back to its usual solid standard, […]

The Saboteur

There’s no denying that Pandemic’s last title, Mercenaries 2, was a bit of a disaster. For a game primarily about blowing everything up, then blowing it up again before it hits the ground, it managed to get an awful lot wrong. During pre-release events in which Mercenaries 2 was shown off, there was a feeling […]

Blur

While the first person shooter may have introduced elaborate new cover systems, and other sports titles the ability to play as just one athlete, the racing game is arguably this generation’s biggest innovator. After all, just this year the genre will have offered gamers a landscape the size of Northern Ireland; concussion effects upon crashing; […]

Lost Planet 2

They say you can’t have everything in life and that’s probably true. We don’t have to be happy about it though. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition’s sequel seems to have slightly less extreme conditions, at least when it comes to the weather. Tropical paradises and desert lands don’t quite compare to the desolate frozen hell of […]