Archive for category: Avoid

/ 15th Jan, 2012 6:40 pm

Backyard Bounce (iOS)

Get ball to hoop. Ball is bouncy and subject to gravity. Ball must be mollycoddled towards hoop via carefully constructed obstacle courses of clutter. Sometimes different types of balls are used all at the same time! Backyard Bounce, the latest physics based puzzle game from Clickgamer.com is certainly nothing new. Three different environments, each with twenty-four puzzles, are offered up [...]

/ 21st Dec, 2011 8:02 am

Lord of The Rings: War In The North Review (360)

War in the North, should you believe the blurb “is a co-op Action RPG that immerses you and your friends in a brutal new chapter in the War of the Ring”. It’s similar in level design to previous titles where you work through each area bashing trolls and orcs until you reach a set piece. These err towards bashing a [...]

/ 16th Dec, 2011 6:15 pm

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown (iOS)

Asylum was great, wasn’t it? I know people have got some reservations about City, what with it being a bit pointlessly expanded resulting in it feeling a little less focused, but I think it’s pretty great too. It’s just such a tactile experience, dropping into a large crowd of opponents, ducking and dodging around them, countering blows, catching chairs, breaking [...]

/ 13th Dec, 2011 5:42 pm

Winter Stars Review (360 Kinect)

It’s been a long time since I’ve hated a game as much as I hate Winter Stars. The only reason this game hasn’t toppled Star Trek: Legacy from its top spot as worst game game ever played is that it’s a Kinect game and therefore had a much harder job to be great in the first place. Winter Stars has [...]

/ 12th Dec, 2011 1:23 pm

Tekken Hybrid Review (PS3)

Tekken Hybrid sees three separate titles thrown into one bundle: a HD remake of the classic Tekken Tag Tournament, an early glimpse of its sequel with Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue, and the 3D-CGI movie, Tekken: Blood Vengeance. At first, this seems like an impressive and valuable compilation, but once you sit down with the pack, you quickly realise that [...]

/ 9th Dec, 2011 3:17 pm

Rage Review (PS3)

A couple of years ago, I asked id Software’s Creative Director Tim Willits why they were calling their new game “Rage”. He replied that it was simply in keeping with their previous titles, such as Doom and Quake. This is not the response that I was expecting. Not that I was hoping for a game based around unrepentant anger, but [...]

/ 7th Dec, 2011 7:17 pm

Defenders of Ardania Review (iOS)

The Tower Defence genre has gotten a little stagnant. There’s very rarely a great amount of innovation. Somewhere along the line we collectively decided that you have a base near an enemy entry point where you’ll have to fortify buildings that help stave off encroaching hordes of nebulous monsters. It works, but when you’ve played one you’ve pretty much gotten [...]

/ 6th Dec, 2011 1:16 pm

Need For Speed: The Run Review (PS3)

Need For Speed: The Run sees EA Black Box (Skate 3, Need For Speed: ProStreet) take over development duties for the first time since 2008′s Need For Speed Undercover, in a cannonball-run chase across the United States from San Francisco to New York. The Run will see you take Jack Rourke – who owes a lot of money to the [...]

/ 23rd Nov, 2011 4:06 pm

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi Review (360)

There are many games that appeal to the masses. Love football? Then most likely you will seek out FIFA 12 or PES 2012. Love ‘pwning’ people, shooting them, and smack-talking? Well Modern Warfare 3 is now out there for you too. Then there is Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi, the latest in the Tenkaichi Budokai (translation: ‘Strongest under the Heavens’) [...]

/ 23rd Nov, 2011 2:34 pm

Whale Trail Review (iOS)

It doesn’t matter how cute everything is. It doesn’t matter how endearing guiding a flying whale away from a shadowy monster is. It doesn’t matter how high my heart is lifted with every rendition of “I can see my house from heeere”. Whale Trail takes every molecule of joy that has been distilled and injected into its every facet and [...]

/ 9th Nov, 2011 9:11 pm

The Cursed Crusade Review (360)

The Middle Ages weren’t a good time to be alive to be honest. Not that I was around back then, but I’ve heard it sucked pretty bad. Unless you were a Knight of the Realm, it was all hacking and slashing through the Middle East on a mission from God to find the Holy Grail or the key to eternal [...]

/ 28th Oct, 2011 12:26 pm

We Sing UK Hits Review (Wii)

There was palpable excitement in my office when We Sing arrived in the post, albeit… mostly from myself. Having already had a bit of a sneaky peek online I knew the rough track listing and was seriously impressed, I’d actually heard of most of the songs. Good tracks are what a karaoke game like We Sing relies on, without well [...]

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