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Review: After Burner Climax (360/PS3).
Originally released in the arcades back in 2006, Sega’s After Burner Climax was the fourth game in the popular After Burner aerial combat series originally designed by Sega legend Yu Suzuki with his AM2 team.
Powered by Sega’s Lindbergh hardware and featuring an awesome servo-powered moving chair in its deluxe variation, Climax proved popular with fans [...]
Review: Super Laser Racer (PC/Mac).
Super Laser Racer is a fantastic futuristic retro racing game from indie developer New Star Games. Set in the future and with bright trippy graphics reminiscent of Tron the premise of the game is simple enough, take your chosen racer to the track and fight your way to first place.
The game is viewed from an [...]
Review: Sonic & Sega All Star Racing (360/PS3/Wii/PC).
It’s often said you said never judge anything by its cover, but in the case of Sonic and Sega All Star Racing, that is exactly what you should do. It looks like Sega’s take on Mario Kart and that’s exactly what it is.
Nintendo has dominated the kart racing genre for over a decade with a [...]
Review: R-Type Tactics (PSP).
As a life long shmup fan that grew up playing various incarnations of Irem’s superlative R-Type series, my initial thoughts when I heard that the next game was a turn based strategy title were not predominantly positive.
R-Type has always been one of gaming’s definitive and innovative shooters, and Dobkeratops (the Alien-esque boss at the end [...]
Review: Torchlight (PC).
Coming seemingly out of nowhere, Torchlight is an action based RPG much in the same vein as the classic Diablo. This shouldn’t perhaps be too much of a surprise mind you as the designers (Runic Games) staff includes two co-designers of Blizzard’s original Diablo games.
Originally released as a digital only title in October, Torchlight’s popularity [...]
Review: Little Big Planet (PSP).
Little Big Planet is one of the PS3’s heavy hitting exclusives; a platform game which genuinely broke new ground in the console market by way of its integrated level creation tools which to date have seen over 1 million user created levels published on Sony’s servers.
Universally acclaimed by critics, Little Big Planet has acted [...]
Review: Shattered Horizon (PC).
Shattered Horizon is the first game to be released from the Finnish Futuremark Games Studios. If the name sounds familiar, it should, because Futuremark have been making PC benchmarking software for over 10 years with 3D Mark probably being the most famous amongst the gaming community. Many of you will no doubt have run one [...]
Review: Zombie Tycoon (PSP Mini’s).
For the last few years Zombies have been looking to become video gaming’s biggest fad; firmly taking the ‘done to death‘ mantle from WWII and appearing in just about every genre of game imaginable. In fairness to the undead horde though, we have been blessed with some great games featuring their brain eating antics, such [...]
Review: Thexder Neo (PSP).
Thexder Neo is a remake of a classic 80’s side scrolling action shooter developed by Game Arts. Originally released way back in 1985 for NEC’s PC-8801, the original game became a huge hit in Japan and was later ported to the MSX before being signed up by Sierra Entertainment for conversions to popular platforms overseas [...]
Review: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3).
So many perfect scores for a game are kind of daunting when trying to write a review that lives up to the game itself. It’s impossible to completely explain my thoughts on Uncharted 2 as you really have to see it to believe it. I can tell you this though: Naughty Dog sure poured there [...]
