Oct 8, 2010

When Guitar Hero first dropped onto the scene I was a hater. Not because I hate guitar music. Far from it, I was a complete metal nugget as a youth and a living testament to the adage once a metaller always a metaller. No, what I hated about it was that being able to play a real guitar, Guitar Hero totally threw me. Especially when confronted by a song I knew...

Oct 8, 2010

Have a fumble round Nintendo’s pitch and there’s lots of classics being flogged. Sonic & Mario are having another sporty hoe down, GoldenEye’s doing its four way split screen thing, Kirby’s got a new co-op platformer to show off (and it looks pretty good too), and good old Donkey Kong’s back in town. The first one was a bit...

Oct 7, 2010

First person shooter video games are big business. Over the last few years, publishers have tried to make them more relevant and adult by concentrating on things like writing and plot, with varying degrees of success (Modern Warfare 2, anyone?). Homefront, created by Kaos Studios and published by THQ, is pulling out all the stops with its frighteningly...

Oct 5, 2010

Right, this is going to sound weird, but Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit looks like a NFS from the PS1 days. Honestly, the first thing we thought of was Need For Speed 2, the one in which you could pop in the cheat to race around as a T-Rex instead of a car (with hilarious crashing into bridges too low for a T-Rex head to pass under). It has that crunchy graphic...

Sep 27, 2010

Format: Xbox 360 (version reviewed), PS3, PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Capcom Games Developer: Blue Castle Players: 1-4 Site: www.deadrising-2.com The world of Dead Rising owes a lot to Rockstar Games. Its sandbox-like play area where a player can wander anywhere they want to, and cherry picking missions handed down via mobile phone, smacks of Grand...