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 […]

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 […]

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 […]