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Rio by THQ
Rio is another game of a movie, but rather than taking the action-adventure route that many licenses opt for, it takes a different flight path. The avian-themed animated film has been turned into a multiplayer party game by THQ – appropriately enough, given the famous Rio de Janeiro carnival that features in the flick. Many…
Alien Breed Trilogy by Mastertronic
The glory years for the Alien Breed saga came during the heyday of the Commodore Amiga. And for isometric, Gauntlet-inspired alien blasting, it was hard to beat the Alien Breed: Director’s Cut of the early 90s. But this was never a classic franchise, often misjudging its difficulty balance. Thus, Alien Breed games tend to be…
Nintendo 3DS
3D films were first around in the ‘roaring twenties’ – although they only really rose to prominence in the 1950s, with the likes of The House of Wax. Then stereoscopic movies fell out of favour, before making a comeback in the 1980s, when Jaws 3D put everyone off the idea for good. Or so we…
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…
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover by UbiSoft
IL-2 Sturmovik fans have had a long wait for a true sequel, with hardcore enthusiasts regarding Birds of Prey as compromising on realism for the sake of console gamers. In fact, the original IL-2 Sturmovik came out just after the turn of the millennium – and a decade later impatient fingers can now finally cease…
Bulletstorm by EA Games
Appearances can most certainly be deceptive. Bulletstorm looks, at first glance, like a natural successor to Serious Sam, a game that requires you to indiscriminately dispatch all manner of enemies who come flocking towards you at speed. But as we battled through it, it was clear it had a lot more in the tank. A…
Capcom – Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
We’ve enjoyed some embarrassingly geeky conversations down the pub. Reminiscing about past deathmatch glories – a pint and a tale of mad rocket-jumping multiple quad frags in Quake’s ‘Bad Place’. Or a packet of pork scratchings while discussing who’d win a fight between Spiderman and the Hulk – which, fortuitously enough, is an argument you…