Rayman Origins: New Year catchup review

Rayman Origins: New Year catchup review

Jan 2, 2012

Format: Wii (version reviewed), PS3, 360 Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier Players: 1-4 (offline only) Site: http://raymanorigins.uk.ubi.com/# If you owned a SNES and/or Mega Drive (AKA Genesis) way back when, your gaming life would have been spent riding a surfboard of pleasure over a stormy sea of side-scrolling...

Rainbow Six: Patriots trailer gets nasty

Rainbow Six: Patriots trailer gets nasty

Dec 12, 2011

Rainbow Six: Patriots flirted with Tom Clancy enthusiasts with a new trailer at the Spike Video Game Awards, showing off the explosive side of vengeance. The trailer doesn’t give us any in-game footage, and instead features a group of gunmen capturing a CEO-like character before doing something particularly unpleasant. Rainbow Six: Patriots is still some way...

Assassin’s Creed Revelations: review

Assassin’s Creed Revelations: review

Dec 7, 2011

Format: 360 (version reviewed), PS3, PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Players: 1 (4-8 online multiplayer) Site: http://www.assassinscreed.ubi.com/ The Assassin’s Creed franchise has remained consistently decent since the original game back in 2007, but once again rather than release a numbered sequel it has gone down...

From Dust: review

From Dust: review

Aug 5, 2011

Format: XBLA, PSN, PC Unleashed: Out Now (PSN and PC versions not yet released) Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Mountpellier Players: 1 Site: http://from-dust.ubi.com/from-dust/en-GB/home/ From Dust is a great big bundle of ambition. Its incredible use of physics presents the shifting ways of nature with an uncanny amount of believability, and the...

Brand new videos for Far Cry 3, Driver San Francisco, and From Dust!

Brand new videos for Far Cry 3, Driver San Francisco, and From Dust!

Jul 11, 2011

We’ve got several big FPS fans here at Critical Gamer. Some of those very same people love sandbox gameplay and beautiful environments… so naturally, we love the Far Cry games here. The video above shows an alternate way to play through the level showcased at E3. By and large, it looks like more of the same in Far Cry 3… but you won’t...