Xbox 360 Reviews
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock 360 Review
6th October 2010 - The 6th main instalment in the highly popular series is arguably the most risky one, too. Taking a cue from the old notepad of when the series spawned all those years ago, Warriors of Rock challenges pop-culture and the rhythm-game norm by giving us a whole slab of hard-rocking,...
R.U.S.E. 360 Review
27th September 2010 - After a few too many well-under-par attempts at strategy games on consoles, people generally understood that these types of games were meant for PC’s only, given a mouse is far more appropriate for controlling and organising units than a controller. But yet, there are still a...
360 XBLA Review - Dead Rising 2: Case 0
23rd September 2010 - Meet Chuck and Katie Greene; two innocent bystanders about to meet a world of hurt. Katie has been bitten by zombies: the only known cure? ZOMBREX, which has been out on the market for 5 years now but is expensive and hard to find. Chuck, well, Chuck is a complicated man....
Halo Reach 360 Review
19th September 2010 - Does this game really need an introduction? The last game by Bungie in Microsoft’s biggest gaming series on the biggest selling console in the world right now? The prequel to the Xbox flagship Halo series? Of course not. We all know Halo, and if sales figures are anything to...
360 XBLA Review - Shank
6th September 2010 - SHANK - Noun: A knife. A makeshift object used for stabbing, “shiv”. Verb: To cut or gash. To stab. As it so happens a shank is also a cut of meat from the back of the leg. Aptly so for a game that has put Klei Entertainment on the map. The single minded adventures of the bad...
360 XBLA Review - Scott Pilgrim vs The World
6th September 2010 - Certainly if the world hasn't versed Scott Pilgrim yet, in this- the game based on the movie based on a serial Canadian comic book series; they should if only to live the agonising memories of button bashing, 3 life living, 8 bit crunching, boss battling co-operative mayhem...
Mafia II 360 Review
6th September 2010 - Gangster games have never really had a good run in the gaming world. Whenever someone tries, they always seem to be an under-par action game that rips stories from the best movies of the genre. So what’s so special about this, Mafia 2? Well it could be the fact that 2K Czech...
360 XBLA Review - Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
26th August 2010 - Rounding out the Winter of Arcade Hits on XBLA, Tomb Raiders` own leading lady; Lara Croft makes an entrance in her technical ninth outing. We say “technical” because the ninth game in the series is still to come next year, with The Guardian of Light filling the gap nicely. Is...
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days 360 Review
20th August 2010 - We all know the story; a game comes out, gathers mixed-but-mostly-bad reviews from critics, gets itself a devoted following and then the sequel comes out a few short years later… But this is when anything can happen. Does the sequel keep its following but this time impress the...
Bioshock 2: Protector Trials DLC Review
15th August 2010 - You’ve asked for it, and 2K Games is finally delivering it - a single-player focused Bioshock 2 Downloadable Content pack. Given the highly successful games lackluster multiplayer experience, we all wanted more of the excellent single-player gameplay. But does The Protector...
Alan Wake: The Signal DLC Review
15th August 2010 - After scoring itself a solid 9 from our reviewer, Alan Wake, one of the years most anticipated games has continued to keep us mystified and engaged with its compelling narrative and dark stylistic gameplay. Now we’ve been given the first slab of Downloadable content for the...
360 XBLA Review - LIMBO
20th July 2010 - lim·bo - noun, plural: place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date.
Little known Danish developers Play Dead Studios have crafted Limbo seemingly out of their imaginations, exploring...
360 XBLA Review - DeathSpank
19th July 2010 - The digital world is growing rapidly and more and more great games are being released as downloadable content every week. While most of these are small, ‘mini-games’ if you will, few challenge the definition of what an arcade game is and push boundaries of what is possible for...
360 XBLA Review - Deadliest Warrior
19th July 2010 - Based on the hit TV series where scientists of sorts study, research and reenact fantasy bouts from the worlds greatest fighters from throughout history, for example; who would win between a Pirate and a Spartan. That’s right, they bring to life every little boys dream of seeing...
Lego: Harry Potter Years 1-4 360 Review
19th July 2010 - Harry Potter: The boy who lived. Travellers Tale games are at it again, albeit without Lucas Arts backing them up this time. Not that you can tell though, as the first four years of Harry Potter are given the Lego make-over they had coming. Is this a memorable journey or does it...