Tag Archives for xbox 360
Mass Effect 3
Perhaps the best thing about Mass Effect 3 is that Bioware has gone into it with all guns blazing. Like Gears of War 3 it’s been designed as a grand finale to a story that has kept gamers gripped for the best part of five years, and like Gears of War 3 it doesn’t take…
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…
The Gunstringer by Microsoft on Xbox 360
The Gunstringer is a western-themed and Kinect-powered puppet show with an audience, no less. They appear in cut-scenes filmed in a mock theatre, and during the game they hoot, clap and cheer you on, booing when you’re hit by the bad guys’ bullets. Gunstringer is beautifully presented as a mock puppet show, and benefits from…
Kinect Sports Season 2 by Microsoft on Xbox 360/Kinect
Kinect Sports Season Two unveils a fresh helping of six new sports. Well, five sports and darts, which certainly has the potential to be a motion-controlled disaste – in the event, though, it scores a veritable bullseye – but it’s set amid a collection with a few patchy areas. DartsWhile it employs the usual slightly…
F1 2011 by Codemasters
No prizes for guessing who’s going to be crowned Formula One champion this year – but if you fancy the idea of rewriting the Grand Prix leaderboard yourself, you can do it on Windows PC, Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3 with Codemasters’ latest take on the world’s most famous race circuits. Last year was…
UFC Personal Trainer by THQ
Think you’ve got what it takes to be the ultimate fighting champion? We do, thanks to a new style of martial combat we’ve personally created. Although the art of submachinegun-do may be regarded as unsporting by other MMA fighters. Okay, so while becoming UFC champion is unlikely through THQ’s Personal Trainer – barring being allowed…
From Dust by Ubisoft
Ubisoft’s latest offering is a downloadable strategy god game with a shamanic (or some might say hippy) vibe – but controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s promise not to employ digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy protection on the title has meant that the PC port of this Xbox game has been met in some quarters with somethign less…
SkipDr For Xbox by Digital Innovations
You’re looking forward to finishing Rockstar’s L.A. Noire, you stick the disc into your Xbox 360, and… nothing. Scratched and dirty discs are the bane of gamers’ lives. Well, now there’s help at hand. SkipDr is a product whose job in life is to bring messed-up discs back to life. Works on other consoles, tooThe…
Kung Fu Panda 2 by THQ
The Xbox’s Kinect motion control system has so far mainly been used for sports, exercise and dance games, although it has flirted with other genres. The sensor has previously tried its hand at a beat-’em-up with Ubisoft’s Fighters Uncaged – but that was a thoroughly unsatisfactory experience plagued by motion detection problems. So will it…