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Dirt 3
Despite loving DiRT 2 for what it was – a sublime off-road racer – I moaned about it a lot. I could be often found skulking in dark alleys at night screaming “Where’s all the traditional rally!?” at the top of my lungs whilst knocking back as much whiskey out...
L.A. Noire
Ever since Columbo asked for “just one more thing”, we've been hooked on sleuthing. Sadly, nothing has ever given us the chance to put our years of watching the glass-eyed master at work on TV to the test, and games that have attempted to weave a murder mystery into their...
Virtua Tennis 4
Whatever happened to releasing tennis games when Wimbledon came rolling around? Huh? It’s only the blinking biggest tennis event of the year and not to take advantage of all that noise seems a little pointless. Still, with Virtua Tennis 4 here and Top Spin 4 in close competition we finally...
Brink
When a game comes along with a name like Brink, when it comes to review time it’s so easy to get sucked into incorporating lame segues into the review using the game name as a tenuous link to the subject matter. You know, “Are we on the Brink of greatness?”...
As a self-styled military sim, the Operation Flashpoint series has always helped in serving as a sobering lesson that the life of a soldier on the frontline is a dangerous business, not that you should ever need reminding of that fact. It's pretty obvious really. A single bullet can kill,...
Mortal Kombat
Back in the day, Mortal Kombat was the biggest controversy-baiting game of its time, with its graphic fatalities and buckets of blood getting the panties of concerned parties in a bunch over the game's content, despite what now looks like pretty crude visuals. Who knows what they'd make of the...
Portal 2
Who'd have thought that such a simple concept could be so complex and intricate? Portal is like a modern day equivalent of chess, but with a portal gun, no board and no pieces. So, entirely nothing like chess then... There is the similarity of having to think several steps ahead...
WWE All Stars
When WWE was actually called WWF, you couldn't help but be a big fan. Watching a bunch of guys beating the living hell - or so I thought - out of one another was bizarrely addictive and how the bad guys always managed to win by nefarious means was frankly...
Like your favourite pair of slippers, the LEGO series offers that same sense of familiarity and warmth each time you return to it. With familiar characters and well-known locales to admire, plus a bucket load of charm, it can turn even the most well known franchises into something fresh. No...
Crysis 2
I like to think the original Crysis was the Britney Spears circa 1999, of video games. You know, pretty on the eyes, soulless and a little bat-shit crazy. It may have set the benchmark on PCs for visuals and Crytek’s proprietary in-house engine, the CryEngine, did put a fear of...
Top Spin 4
To put it bluntly, Top Spin 3 was a tough cookie to crack and was completely unfriendly to newcomers. So much so that a lot of people barely made it through the tutorials before giving up, as the mix of button-timing and split-second risk shots that the game required proved...
