Game Reviews
Review: Guitar Hero World Tour
After creating customised rockers, budding musicians can play as a
band or solo.
Review: Gears of War 2
Careful use of cover is essential during the intense and
exhilarating battles.
Review: Wii Music
Torments the ears with nursery rhymes, folk songs and horrendous
arrangements of classical music.
Review: Fallout 3
This post-apocalyptic blockbuster asks players difficult questions.
Review: Fable II
The ambitious Fable II presents such an incredibly convincing world
to explore that you often find yourself sidetracked for hours.
Review: Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 returns to Conrad's Africa in the 21st century and it is
still "The Dark Continent" where Westerners succumb to their base
savagery.
Review: Saints Row 2
While Rockstar took a darker, more serious and mature tone for its
magnum opus Grand Theft Auto IV, THQ has been content to provide
fun-loving criminals another dose of absurd, violent anarchy.
Review: Wipeout HD
Fans and newcomers alike will be thrilled by this game's
astonishingly fast pace, stunning visuals and wildly undulating
circuits.
Review: Lego Batman
Has plenty of secrets to find and will make players smile thanks to
its slapstick humour.
Review: LittleBigPlanet
Players of all ages will be entranced by this wonderfully unique,
hilarious plaything.
Review: Crysis Warhead
Like its predecessor, Warhead's strength is the tactical freedom
offered to players.
Review: Samba De Amigo
Samba can be a riot played with friends but the controls are so
hobbled.
Review: Pure
Your steed is an all-terrain vehicle and at all times you are
battling 15 aggressive rivals.
Review: de Blob
Transforming a drab, monochrome city into a colourful urban
paradise is incredibly satisfying.
Review: Peggle Nights
It's simple and repetitive but you are almost guaranteed to soon be
hooked.
Lock's Quest
Our young hero can fight enemies hand-to-hand while turrets blast
foes from afar.
Civilization Revolution DS
When Firaxis Games released Civilization Revolution on consoles earlier this year, we were pleasantly impressed. Not only did it manage to streamline the massively complex PC title, it also managed to be engaging in its own right, offering a broad choice of civilisations and victory conditions.
Civilization IV: Colonization
Sometimes it seems like Sid has been playing a little too much Civilization himself. Not content with creating a cracker of a game in Civilization IV and then making it better with two expansion packs, Sid Meier’s Firaxis Studios is now looking to recreate other games using the same mould. The beginnings of an attempt at global domination via game engine ubiquity? Well, maybe not, but the idea does present itself with a certain amusing irony.
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
“How many times have we played this game before?” smirked one office colleague, slinking into the games room one level into Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway, presumably in search of a high-five or some kind of verbal reacharound for being so witty.
Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
It's an enjoyable enough romp, but not of the calibre of most
Nintendo releases.
