The latest edition of Konami's all-conquering football game is a bit of a strange beast. Famed for being the more realistic, slower and more deliberate of the two major football games, it continues the trend set ...

Considering that the veterans of Sports Interactive's football management games - the recent Football Managers and the early Championship Managers - will dive straight in with little instruction required, it's perhaps understandable that Football Manager 2008's ...

After enjoying a generally positive response to the PC and console version of Lara 2007 earlier in the year, Codemasters' efforts turned to this handheld edition, with the franchise coming to the PSP for the first ...

Why is computer golf so addictive? Well, the real thing is darned addictive - just ask the many golf widows out there. However, real golf is also hard; even an average standard and consistency is tricky ...

There probably isn't a footie fan in the country who hasn't fantasized about managing his or her favourite national or local team and doing a darn sight better than the current man in charge. It was ...

There's a great bit while your game of FIFA is loading, where you take control of Ronaldinho and practice your shooting. It sure beats looking at a 'Please Wait' sign and, by the inclusion of another ...

If you've ever watched a game of rugby closely, you'll probably have noticed several things. 1) The ball isn't round, but that's okay, because it matches the shape of the average player's head. 2) Fly halves ...

Ah, the lure of the sea! Most of us have been tempted at some stage by the thought of having control of our own vessel and sailing off into a glorious sunset, with the spray on ...

The Tour de France is without doubt one of the premier events in the sporting calendar - it has the largest annual pro sport viewing audience worldwide - and its appeal has mushroomed beyond France and ...

Lucinda Green is a legend in equestrian circles, having won the Badminton horse trials for the first time at the tender age of 19 and then claimed the title a record six times in total. She ...

Cricket and video games are a combination that has so far failed to convincingly gel, so it's to the credit of Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 that it gets closer than most. Released to coincide ...

Top Spin 2, only recently released onto PC, is a fine, deep, involving tennis game. In fact, the whole Top Spin franchise, which has sprung to life in the gap while its main rival Virtua Tennis ...

If your cash-in alarm bells are ringing, then they rightly should be. UEFA Champions League 2006-07 is the latest game from the EA Sports football game production line that, since the end of 2005, has seen ...

Can you sink the pink? Down the brown? Sack the black? Or think of any better snooker-related puns to begin a review with? Hopefully ones that don't make you sound like Anne Robinson doing a Weakest ...

Darts on the computer is a weird concept. What's really the idea here - darts for lazy people? Because you could hardly call the beer-gutted monsters that wobble up to the oche every year "athletes" in ...

EA must have been looking at the cricket as a bit of a goldmine. With the resurgence of interest in the sport in the UK, along with the Ashes series, it's thus unsurprising that they held ...

We're all friends here, so let's be honest. EA Sports regularly gets hammered for sending out, year after year, only slightly enhanced versions of its sports games: these still sell, but rarely trouble the trophy cabinet. ...

Following the usual, annual FIFA vs Pro Evo debate has been a fascinating sport in itself this year, not least for the fact that many seem to now be rooting for FIFA as the underdog. After ...

Football Manager 2007, from the early preview build we've played, is a terrific game. It's built with real care to detail, certainly has one or two problems, and it might all go wrong between the time ...

Rather than churn out the usual "it's not changed much / Pro Evo is better / cynical EA Sports"-esque review of the new, annual FIFA game, this reviewer thought he'd set himself a challenge. Could he ...