Brink

Genuine enthusiasm goes a long way with us. Listening to developers talk endlessly, with barely a pause for breath or to let the width of their smile shorten by an inch, sometimes they can win you over with their own personal excitement for a game. And in the case of Splash Damage’s senior game designer, […]

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

For some, Modern Warfare 2 is a multiplayer vehicle. Forget the single player merely ‘tracked-on’ for those not smart enough to venture online, they say, the latest iteration of Call of Duty is at its finest when comping over the PlayStation Network. Considering how well structured Infinity Ward’s latest is, this argument sounds like a […]

Mini Ninjas

It is always interesting to see how easily games get pigeonholed. It doesn’t take much- just an association with a particular genre or even a look and a game can be permanently branded. And, indeed, at first glance everything about Mini ninjas screams ‘casual family title’, or worse: ‘throwaway Wii kiddy fodder’, but thankfully we […]

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. […]

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; […]

Devil May Cry 4

If there was ever a contemporary videogame series able to fly in the face of emergent gameplay non-linearity, and all other gubbins that developers like to harp on about these days, then Devil May Cry would probably be it. As many of you well known, Capcom’s perennial action franchise has so far been built around […]