Archive for category: Previews

/ 6th Mar, 2012 1:01 pm

XCOM: Enemy Unknown – First Look

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a real-time strategy game which follows on from the events of the 1994 classic UFO: Enemy Unknown. In the XCOM universe, the earth is under attack from an unknown extraterrestrial force with massively superior numbers and technology. Commanding an elite force of soldiers, it’s up to you to defend the earth from destruction. Last week I [...]

/ 27th Feb, 2012 8:01 am

Hands-On with Risen 2: Gorillas, Wenches and Voodoo

Risen 2 is a game about pirates. It’s also a game about soldiers, about making choices, and a li-ttle bit about racism, though not in that socially-conscious educational way. More the other kind. You know. The racist one. Developers Piranha Bytes have focused their efforts on breadth in Risen 2. You play a nameless hero who was dishonourably discharged from [...]

/ 22nd Feb, 2012 4:35 pm

Warlock – Master of the Arcane (PC) Preview

Strategy games like to give you choices, lots and lots of choices and all those options can be overwhelming. When you start up a game you don’t always want to spend twenty minutes fine tuning exactly how many Barbarians are going to appear and how vicious their sneers are likely to be. Warlock does an excellent job of providing control [...]

/ 22nd Feb, 2012 2:52 pm

Bit.Trip Complete and Saga Preview

The Bit.Trip series has been one of the more unique offerings on the Wii, with each new title offering a totally new gameplay experience. With modern twists on old-school gameplay, Commander Video goes on quite a journey across the six games, ranging from one-player pong to sprints across dangerous planes. The six games have now been packed into a nice [...]

/ 15th Feb, 2012 12:01 pm

Adidas miCoach – First Look

Adidas miCoach is a Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move enabled fitness game. Yes, it’s another fitness game, so why should you care? Well, it’s being pitched as a game to complement the sports you enjoy. Not replace, complement. It’s an important distinction. For example, if you are a runner you go out running as normal and log the results [...]

/ 30th Jan, 2012 7:00 pm

Syndicate Hands-On Preview – Co-op Mode

The Syndicate demo will be out for Xbox Live Gold users on 31st Jan (tomorrow) and PSN on 1st Feb. EA gave us a hands-on preview with the co-op mode. It’s good. Real good. I imagine it would be a bloody nightmare if you play with online randomers. The Western Europe map that will be available is 4-player co-op and [...]

/ 26th Jan, 2012 3:27 pm

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo Impressions

Excited for the release of Final Fantasy XIII-2? You should be. I know it seems odd after the apparent failure of XIII. Believe me I can understand any hesitations you may have. After playing through the demo three times for your benefit I can safely say FFXIII-2 appears to fix the few issues that XIII had. Combat is faster and [...]

/ 25th Jan, 2012 2:40 am

UFC Undisputed 3 Hands-On Preview

“He’s looking for a Kimura” Get used to this. You’ll be hearing it a lot, at least if the tournament I played is anything to go by. The development team at THQ have worked hard on making the commentary system sound natural. “You’re actually getting live broadcast feeds,” I was told by senior designer Wes Bunn. “The UFC gives us [...]

/ 20th Jan, 2012 8:49 pm

Resident Evil – Bringing Back the Survival Horror?

Resident Evil is a franchise I hold very close to my heart. Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified by the intense scares of this survival horror, creeping through the corridors of the infamous mansion of Resident Evil’s debut entry, and I’ve survived the horrors of Raccoon City. From the moment you press start at the opening [...]

/ 18th Jan, 2012 10:56 pm

What IS Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning?

The demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was released on Xbox Live and PSN this week. Some have criticised it for clinging to old fantasy RPG tropes. Others have called it “the game that Lionhead have been trying to make for three iterations.” I’ve spent hours playing on preview builds of the game, so here’s the score. The Concept Amalur [...]

/ 14th Dec, 2011 2:44 pm

Binary Domain Preview

Binary Domain is one of the many games coming out early next year. I saw it way back at E3 and finally got to play it recently. It’s an odd one. One the surface, it’s just another shooty bang game with corridors and giant robots but the team at Yakuza Studio are innovating on a rarely-seen dynamic; NPC relationships. I [...]

/ 8th Dec, 2011 3:00 pm

WipEout 2048 Preview – Rockway Stadium Hands-on Gameplay

At last week’s Vita Rooms event the full build of wipEout 2048 was available to play. Not only did we record zone mode gameplay for the first time but we also captured a previously unannounced track on video. The new track is called Rockway Stadium and it joins Queen’s Mall, Empire Climb, Sol, Unity Square and Metro Park in the [...]

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