Although it was never quite going to match up to the Modern Warfare 2 juggernaut for sheer depth, Digital Extremes’ multiplayer component for BioShock 2 feels like a missed opportunity. It introduces some innovative features that really lend it its
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Set in the submerged, dystopian city of Rapture and championing the power of the self over the collective, the original BioShock proved that game developers could take literature as its chief inspiration and still craft a fun but mature game
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The first few hours of Dante’s descent into the nine circles of Hell are certainly a visceral experience (geddit?), with the wailing of lost souls and the impaled corpses setting a dark, twisted tone for what is to follow; but
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Darksiders doesn’t so much wear its influences on its sleeve as sport the official fan club badges on its gleaming plated breast; ‘We ♥ God Of War’ they read, and ‘The Legend of Zelda Appreciation Society’. But if you are
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Toeing a line that splits astounding action with incredble frustration, Bayonetta is a whirlwind of action that perfectly encapsulates its medium; a madcap, crazy rollercoaster that would be impossible to realise in other media which continually surprises, amuses and enrages
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As I’ve mentioned recently, since the turn of the decade I’ve been obsessed with the online multiplayer deathmatches and dominations of a certain Modern Warfare 2, to the point where I’ve been seeing snipers in my sleep and idly fantasizing
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Another ‘old’ game (released in October 2008) that I received as a Christmas present, I initially expected not to enjoy Far Cry 2. The gritty setting and the emphasis on realism is something I normally shy away from in first-person
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After experiencing the slick ultra-violence of the God Of War 3 demo at the Eurogamer Expo, and with my blood-letting appetite whetted by small-screen series entry God Of War: Chains Of Olympus, I’ve been kind of hankering after more of
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'Hacking, with a side order of slashing.'
I almost didn’t get to have any impressions about this game at all. Heavenly Sword, a £6.50 second-hand bargain from a branch of CEX in my hometown, crashed every time it attempted to install game data to the hard drive
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Platforming nuts and bolts.
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time makes no apology for wearing its influences on its sleeve. Whilst essentially an evolution of classic collect-’em-up platformers in the Banjo & Kazooie mould, it also casually apes the planetoid structure from Super
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