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Microsoft: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Nostalgia appears to be in the air at the moment, what with SEGA bringing out a new game to celebrate twenty years of Sonic and now Microsoft going all misty eyed over their legendary Xbox-launching FPS with a revamped Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, to mark ten years of Master Chief in action. 343 Industries has…
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Resident Evil has taken the plunge on the 3DS, but not in its traditional horror format. Mercenaries is a straightforward shooter, although naturally enough you’re still trying to survive the unwanted attentions of infected Majini (sort of zombie creatures), scythe-bearing cultists, and various clawing beasts that players of Resident Evil 4 and 5 will quickly…
Dungeon Siege III by Square Enix
Life is not happy in the kingdom of Ehb. The famed 10th legion, which maintained the stability of the realm, was blamed when the monarch was murdered, and its members hunted down and killed by the angry citizens, inflamed by the vengeful warrior Jeyne Kassynder. Thirty years on, the reputedly last surviving legionnaire, the Venerable…
Thor: God Of Thunder by Sega
We’re not quite sure who keeps giving Sega the licence to produce games based on Marvel movies, because this otherwise-impressive game publisher keeps making a shoddy job of it. How many people, after all, are still playing its Iron Man 2 videogame? Exactly. For Thor, Sega hasn’t gone down the straight adaptation route. Instead, it…
Section 8: Prejudice by TimeGate Studios
Alongside the usual machine guns, sniper rifles and rockets, this high-tech sci-fi first-person shooter (FPS) from TimeGate Studios sports power armour and pulse cannons. Section 8 also throws jetpacks, vehicles and mech suits into a team-based firefight where two sides face off in online multiplayer with three different modes of play. The trouble is, there…
3DS games round-up: Nintendogs + Cats, Steel Diver, Dead or Alive: Dimensions
With a trickle of releases coming out for Ninetendo’s new glasses-free handheld 3D games console, we thought we’d take a peek at some of the new releases. Nintendogs + CatsAimed at the casual 3DS gamer, Nintendogs features 27 breeds of virtual dog to nurture, with some cats thrown in for good measure. As with a…
The Sims Medieval by EA
The medieval version of The Sims hasn’t simply thrown in some lute music and substituted 2.4 kids in an apartment for 6.5 urchins in a mud-brick shack. While the core mechanics are still here, with a very similar interface and the usual (albeit simplified) need meters, some major alterations have been made to the formula….
Family Quiz by Funbox Media
The Nintendo Wii has been in trouble for some time. Bereft of interesting, major releases, and regularly accused of being fobbed off with third party-published ‘shovelware’, the Wii clearly needs some quality thinking in its games if it’s to turn those perceptions around. Family Quiz will not be riding to the rescue. Not-so-captivatingBilled as a…
Killzone 3 by Sony
There’s a prominent health warning at the beginning of Killzone 3, and it’s not on the shy side, either. Those of a nervous disposition are clearly best not applying for duty here – and the game soon leaves us in no doubt as to why. Fightin’ talkKillzone 3 is a game about violence. About war…