Review

The barnstorming mid-season finale

Arthur pushes Camelot to the brink of war as he tries to emerge from Uther’s shadow

Attempting to capture old-fashioned, challenging gameplay in this day and age hasn’t been easy for a lot of small developers working on downloadable nostalgia games. Simply making your game difficult isn’t enough – a game can be difficult for the wrong reasons, like bad controls, unintuitive dangers, and unnecessarily punishing …

We knew things were bound to get harrowing in The Cursed Crusade; the game’s premise is to send you to the depths of Hell… we just didn’t expect to actually be tormented. After many hours, we’ve emerged from this nightmare with blistered fingers from clunky controls, in complete disbelief over …

Remember the climactic bank heist in the immaculately-constructed crime-thriller Heat? Remember the tense, pumping music, the incredible crack of gunshots ringing out through downtown LA streets? Remember Robert De Niro and company gunning down like a hundred cops? Payday: The Heist superbly captures everything about that scene, providing a unique …

Ready for another adventure with a certain Lombax and his robotic best friend? Insomniac’s next title in the R&C series: Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One takes on a different perspective, giving gamers a chance to play with up to four other teammates. With a new main co-op feature that …

Meet my new friend, he’s a real fungi…

For some of us, mapping our way through lonely 2D corridors and slowly accumulating the firepower to put a hole in the moon is the cream cheese to our bagel. It’s a decades-old obsession begun by Metroid and later championed by Castlevania; lately jettisoned to handheld consoles like the GameBoy …

More isn’t always better, but in the case of Tetris Axis we’ll take it. If you only play each of Tetris Axis’s twenty modes one time you’ll have played Tetris for several hours. Which is great, because it’s more than likely you’ll only want to play many of these modes …

Amy Pond’s feeling for snow