| | Angry Birds Space review – Starship Enterprise Bacon | 
Abigail Holden - May 16th, 2012 | Those Angry Birds are back, and they’re still angry. The green pigs are also smugger than ever before. I can understand why the Birds are so livid. As if you needed an excuse to wipe those smug grins off their piggy faces, Angry Birds Space is here to fill the void. If you’re new to the Angry Birds franchise, there’s plenty of flavours available, on PC and various phones and tablets, ... [»] | 
Score
8.0/10 |
| Max Payne 3 Review Roundup | 
Gavin Mannion - May 15th, 2012 | So all the excitement for us yesterday was the impending release of Diablo 3 but over in America they had another massive release with Max Payne 3 also hitting the store shelves at the very same time. It will be interesting to compare sales in the coming weeks ... [»] | 
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| Moosa’s Musings: What’s the point of game reviews? | 
Tauriq Moosa - May 14th, 2012 | Gavin recently noted that games that receive almost universal dislike from professional reviewers still sometimes sell better than ones highly praised. For example, Sniper Elite V2 sold better at one point than Mass Effect 3. Ignoring for the moment that sales don’t indicate quality – Twilight, anyone? – it is still interesting to wonder about game reviews’ purpose, in general. After all, if reviews that universally hated a game do nothing to reduce a game’s sales, then what ... [»] |
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| Fable Heroes Review – Molyneux’s Middling Marionettes | 
Darryn Bonthuys - May 11th, 2012 | Fable spins off into a brand new offshoot with the release of Fable Heroes, a game that attempts to take the familiar characters and settings of the popular Lionhead trilogy, into an all new direction, swopping flesh and blood for felt and buttons.
But can the latest Fable game stand on its own two feet, or does it fall victim to its ambitions and struggle ... [»] |
Score
4.9/10 |
| Prototype 2 review – The art of dismemberment | 
Garth Holden - May 10th, 2012 | The thing about sequels is often that the territory is too familiar, or there is some or other stupid reason for why your hero is stripped of their powers, again, and has to start from the beginning. Prototype 2 avoids this by introducing a new protagonist: Sgt James Heller. Don’t worry, Mercer is still around, but ... [»] |
Score
8.0/10 |
| MtG Avacyn Restored Angelic Might review – Herald of the angels | 
Garth Holden - May 9th, 2012 | Are you new to the world of Magic with all these people shouting tap, in response, red red two and calling cards out by name, as if you are supposed to know exactly what it does? Fear not, because then the Intro Pack is made just for you. With a cheap price tag, an Intro Pack is a great place to start playing Magic: The Gathering.
Angelic Might, ... [»] |
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| Bloodforge Review – Eviscerate, rinse and repeat | 
Darryn Bonthuys - May 8th, 2012 | A world of darkness, populated by horrific beasts, berserk warriors and gods with their own agenda, Bloodforge bursts through them like an alien chestburster on heat, as its ruthless hero strives to revenge himself upon his enemies in a quest for I’m sorry I just can’t write a review for this game seriously.
I’m not joking. I’ve played quite a few bad games, but when it comes to generic disasterpieces which are about as original as a Black ... [»] |
Score
3.0/10 |
| Trials Evolution Review – Trial and error and error and error and $#&!#$ sakes! | 
Darryn Bonthuys - May 7th, 2012 | Cast your mind back to 2010. Digital gaming marketplaces are booming, and the titles available come in a wide variety of flavours. You’ve got experimental, retro and edgy games, that are making use of the new quick consumption model that DLC has created.
And then along came Trials HD, which for all intents and purposes, was a virtual calculator for whether our species would survive or not, based on it’s ... [»] |
Score
8.5/10 |
| Should you buy the Forza 4 May Top Gear Download Pack? | 
Guest Writer - May 7th, 2012 | by Oethman Khan Roughly every month, Turn 10 has releases a new pack of cars available for Forza 4 as DLC. This month the May Top Gear Download Pack comes with 10 new cars ranging from ridiculously fast to… well ridiculous. It’s set at a price of 560msp and not part of the seasons pass.
Is it worth buying?The first car I jumped into was the Henessy ... [»] |
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| Re-review: Batman Arkham Asylum | 
Matthew Figueira - May 4th, 2012 | So you've read about the Batman Arkham City Game of the Year Edition, and you've told yourself that you are going to buy it. What! You've never played Arkham Asylum? Perhaps you skimmed the reviews in 2009 when it came out. Maybe you overlooked the pre-played area when you were out shopping last week. Perhaps you were just broke.
Don't worry, I was in the same ... [»] | 
Score
8.8/10 |
| Pandora’s Tower review – Is hope left inside? | 
Garth Holden - May 3rd, 2012 | In case you were wondering where the recent slew of RPG love on the Wii came from, you can thank the fan-based project - Operation Rainfall - for convincing Nintendo of America to localise Pandora's Tower, Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story. It takes balls to make an action RPG for ... [»] |
Score
5.0/10 |
| Army Corps of Hell: “Will you do the Fandango?” | 
James Lenoir - May 3rd, 2012 | If you're of a certain age, and you owned a GameCube, you might have played a delightful strategy game called Pikmin. You're probably wondering why I'm mentioning a decade-old Nintendo game when reviewing a Vita title, but bear with me for a second. In Pikmin, you played as an extra-terrestrial called Captain Olimar, who ends up stranded on a distant planet. Olimar quickly realises ... [»] |
Score
6.0/10 |
| Silent Hill: Downpour review – Who’ll stop the rain? | 
Tauriq Moosa - May 2nd, 2012 | Silent Hill isn’t so much a game franchise as it is the most sophisticated, mature journey of terror for people who too easily see the fake blood, the bad make-up, the bad guy around the corner. It’s a series designed to creep beneath the skin, curl around your veins, stick a finger in your heart and play you like a meat puppet to the tune of its own ... [»] |
Score
7.5/10 |
| Serious Sam 3: Before First Encounter review – No Cover. All Man. | 
Abigail Holden - May 2nd, 2012 | Sometime in the 22nd century, invading aliens have attacked Earth and reduced it to ruins. The few surviving humans believe their only hope is an ancient artefact built by another alien race and buried under the sands of Egypt. Unfortunately, they don’t know how to work it or even what exactly it does, and the place is swarming with enemy forces. There’s only one man ... [»] |
Score
7.5/10 |
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