Computer And Video Games - Reviews

The Darkness 2

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Ripping yarn.
During the six hours it takes to complete The Darkness II you rip men in half, pop off their heads like a child pulling the lid off a felt-tip, slash off their legs, rip their spines from their bodies, and tear out their hearts as they watch. And these are the tame executions. (There's one horrifying kill called 'Assecution' where your tentacles enter a man through his... look, it's one of the most disgusting things. Ever.)

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Kingdoms of Amalur review: Rolston playing game.
Who'd be an open world RPG in the wake of Skyrim? Hell, who'd be a video game in the wake of Skyrim?

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Bit.Trip Complete

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Pieces of eight-bit...
Have you experienced the retro delights of Gaijin Games' Bit Trip series yet?

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NeverDead

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:45:00 GMT

Not worth losing your head over.
A promising concept from Metal Gear Acid's Shinta Nojiri and Rebellion Software, you might have had tall expectations for NeverDead, which - at first glance at least - certainly goes out on a limb to set itself apart.

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Neverdead

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:35:00 GMT

Dawn of the dread.
Everyone knows that immortality is a curse. It's one of the basic rules of fiction, along with "see, humans were the monsters, after all!" But demon hunter Bryce has an unusual side-curse. His limbs are constantly, repetitively, exhaustingly popping out. If NeverDead is representative of Bryce's daily life, 400 of his 500 years alive have been spent rolling around, gathering up his ejaculated extremities.

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SoulCalibur V

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Ivy league.
The title Soul Calibur V implies succession: more of the same, bigger and better. No real difference. But Soul Calibur V is a surprise, and a radical change for Namco Bandai's venerable fighting series. Everything's as lavish and over-the-top as usual, but the fighting system has been thoroughly reworked. Its biggest influence? Street Fighter IV

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Soul Calibur V

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

The ultimate (cardboard) box set.
Say what you will about Metal Gear and its genius, scattershot creator Hideo Kojima, but nothing else flits so effortlessly between nude cartwheels, prescient yet excruciating 30-minute cutscenes and exhilarating, real-time, blade combat (alongside the most charismatic videogame hero ever) - and that's just in a two-hour stretch of MGS2. Don't even get us started on the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo, or MGS3's one-hour boss battle, or tracking an invisible Tsuchinoko, or the pleasure of Peace Walker's Fulton Recovery System.

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Monster Hunter 3G

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:30:00 GMT

If you cannot kill monster, Tri harder!.
Meet Watthew. He's the loneliest Monster Hunter in the world. He lives in a bizarre land that seems somehow familiar, one where he can't speak the language or understand what people ask of him - but Watthew knows one thing: hunt monsters. If only it were so easy...

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Final Fantasy XIII-2

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Blunder and Lightning.
Final Fantasy XIII had such a one-track mind it was practically a monorail. And because it was a mere shadow of the games that had come before it (minus XI, of course), Square Enix gracefully did what few other developers have been brave enough to do: they held up their hands and admitted their shortcomings.

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Resident Evil Revelations

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:45:00 GMT

Ooze cruise.
Noises we don't normally make during portable gaming: argh, wah, yoinks, eeep, brrrr. For one, portable gaming is often done in polite company and the other bus passengers don't want to sit next to a whimpering fruitcake.

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Nintendo 3DS Circle Pad Pro

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:19:00 GMT

Does Nintendo's bulky peripheral make a difference?.
Slowly but surely things are starting to look up for the Nintendo 3DS. Since the fruitful price cut and the release of a few top notch first party titles the 3DS has seen a big surge in popularity.

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Joe Danger Special Edition

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Stunning stunt racer jumps platform to rapturous applause.
Joe Danger is a perfectionist's dream.

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Boom Street

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Make money quick! Although we might be lying about the 'quick' part...
What is money? Where does it come from, and where does it go when we spend it? Someone somewhere pondered these questions in the summer of 2008 and came to the chilling realisation that nobody actually knows.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:32:00 GMT

Old Republic Review: After 100 hours, we're finally ready to give BioWare's epic MMO a review score...
Last month we gave you our initial impressions of The Old Republic after 30 hours of play. Now, 82 hours later, we think we're ready to give it a review score.

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Mario Kart 7 Online

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:00:00 GMT

We're all going to shell in a hand kart...
The insightful design fuses with a forward-thinking structure to make Mario Kart 7 the best online racer of any type on any console bar none.

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Freakyforms Your Creations, Alive!

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Freaks slip their leash.
If there's one thing our World Of Pokémon and World Of Nintendo sections have taught us, it's that people love sharing their disturbing creations on the internet, whether it's *shiver* sexy Pokémon, or *shiver* Mario characters as they would look in real life.

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Minecraft

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Construction and destruction in equal measure...
There's one easy test to work out what kind of Minecraft player you'll be: how did you play with Lego when you were younger?

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Crush3D

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:14:00 GMT

Just a matter of perspective...
Here's the 3DS irony. For all the trouble Nintendo went to, squeezing a whole extra dimension into the console, few games have really emerged that take full advantage of that exciting extra 'D'. Why? They're not allowed to!

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Call of Duty: MW3 Elite App

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:59:00 GMT

Full hands-on, exclusive screens and embarrassing k/d ratio exposed...
Call of Duty Elite's app has, belatedly, appeared in the iOS App store - with Android versions set to follow next week. We've downloaded it, fiddled with it and taken screenshots that detail the woeful performance we put in during a Headquarters Pro match late on Sunday night.

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Amy

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:59:00 GMT

Upsetting for all the wrong reasons...
Remember that amazing bit in Shaun of the Dead where the team zombie-up and shuffle past the undead? Hilarious, tense, brilliant. Amy is nothing like that.

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All Zombies Must Die!

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Fortunately, killing them is good fun.
The undead are so common in games that they've become a slightly mouldy threat, and All Zombies Must Die! doesn't do much for the noble zombie's cause.

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PS Vita Review - Everything you need to know about PS Vita

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Is there room for a hardcore handheld in 2012? Here's our PS Vita verdict...
Sony already has the PS Vita release date set in stone, but in an age when 69p App Store titles dominate the market and even Nintendo's forced into a massive 3DS price cut, a move to launch the £230 portable behemoth, PlayStation Vita, looks more than a little brave - and that's the price before necessary memory cards and £40 games.

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PS Vita

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Is there room for a hardcore handheld in 2012?.
Sony already has the PS Vita release date set in stone, but in an age when 69p App Store titles dominate the market and even Nintendo's forced into a massive 3DS price cut, a move to launch the £230 portable behemoth, PlayStation Vita, looks more than a little brave - and that's the price before necessary memory cards and £40 games.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic review Pt. 1

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:35:00 GMT

The Knight before Christmas.
There's no score at the end of this review. Even though we've been playing The Old Republic for 30 hours (and counting), giving a definitive verdict is basically impossible at this stage. But what we can do is tell you whether it's worth playing it or not.

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