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Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games
There was a sense of hell freezing over when Nintendo and Sega’s respective mascots, Mario and Sonic, first appeared alongside one another in a videogame. But few things build bridges faster than a pile of cash, and the commercial success of Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games, back in 2007, has made this London-centric…
Revenge of the Titans by Iceberg Interactive
The Titans are invading the solar system. They’re large stomping extra-terrestrials who look like the result of an intimate encounter between a Space Invader and a Pac-Man ghost. How the former managed to navigate the maze to find Inky or Pinky for a pixellated tête-à-tête, we’ll never know. Anyway, this game’s visuals might be low-tech…
Child of Eden by UbiSoft
An abstract and trippy rhythm-shooter which is beautifully presented, Child of Eden is an aesthetic and musical joy, albeit a rather short-lived one. The Kinect control works perfectly too, and adds another dimension to the blasting experience as you swipe and dismiss multiple viruses with your hand. In short, this is another good reason to…
Shadows of the Damned by EA
Much like a woman scorned, Hell has a great deal of fury. We should know, we’ve taken virtual vacations to the underworld in several video games, the latest of which is EA’s third-person shooter. Shadows of the Damned is a survival-horror with a considerable sense of style, and fortunately it isn’t bereft of substance either….
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…
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…
Battle: Los Angeles by Konami
For some unearthly reason, Hollywood never seems to learn the lesson that rushing out a video game based on a (hopefully) hit movie nearly always results in a dire game. Battle: Los Angeles was a big budget alien invasion movie that was a half-decent clone of Independence Day, but nothing special. And the game? Well,…
Roxio Game Capture
There’s nothing more frustrating than having a long, impressive kill streak on Black Ops and not being able to boast about it to your mates. But you don’t need to sulk in the corner any longer, because Roxio has brought out Game Capture so that you can preserve those power plays forever. Designed to grab…
Portal 2 by EA
No-one could have foreseen the worldwide phenomenon that the first Portal game became in 2007. Imagined almost as an ironic footnote to the Half-Life universe, Portal revolutionised the brain-teaser puzzle by pitting an unwilling ‘test subject’ against a psychotic female computer named GLaDOS, with murder in mind. Although GLaDOS was blown up at the end…
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….