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The original standard-bearer for video games with zombies, Resident Evil used to have the genre to itself. These days everyone’s in on the act, with better made action games and far scarier and more atmospheric titles, undermining the efforts of Resident Evil 6 to appeal to both adrenaline heads and fans of feeling very nervous.
Nintendo’s Mario & Donkey Kong series has always been about solving puzzles of escalating complexity. Minis on the Move does away with platform hopping, replacing it with Pipemania-style mechanics that have you assembling a path to guide little robotic Nintendo characters to the start at the end of each level, via three Mario coins. Its
In Nintendo’s most recent Direct broadcast, there were several interesting announcements, the most exciting of which is that Pikmin 3, Miyamoto’s ridiculously charming take on real time strategy, will be released in Europe on 26 July. Arriving on 20 June, there’s also DLC coming for New Super Mario Bros U in the shape of Super
Last Light is the sequel to book-turned-game Metro 2033 and sees hero Artyom continue his struggle for survival in irradiated near-future Moscow, joining the huddled masses in the city’s underground system. That means dealing with large, hostile monsters who live both above and below ground, as well as fending off the potentially deadly ministrations of human
I’ve never been a fan of ‘freemium’ games, where you download them for nothing before being begged, wheedled and coerced into paying many times over during the course of play. Iron Man 3: The Official Game does nothing to dispel this deep discomfort with fake free. Using Temple Run’s paradigm of procedural generation, assembling levels
Blood Dragon uses Far Cry 3’s game engine to create something rather different. Although both games share a penchant for stalking and shooting, Blood Dragon is rip-roaring gung-ho 80s homage, from its delirious cornucopia of Arnie era one-liners to the sprite-based cut-scenes and a growled Michael Biehn voiceover. Your character, Sgt. Rex Colt, becomes Rex
Star Trek is a series about exploring the galaxy and letting the peculiarities encountered shed some light on the human condition. It involves space ships, medical emergencies, weapons that have a stun setting and aliens, sometimes friendly, sometimes not. Star Trek the game is a third-person cover shooter with clumsy controls and a lot of
As we reported a few weeks ago, there are strong rumours going around that the next Xbox, as-yet-unnamed but codenamed Durango, will have to have a persistent internet connection to work. Which is patently silly. The thot plickened yesterday as Ars Technica quoted what purports to be an internal Microsoft email. It said, “Durango is
Imprisoned by a mad sorcerer, your character has only a freakish talking book for company. Conveniently, the book contains stories about demons being vanquished, which is where you come in. Chapters are set against backdrops that even on Vita’s little screen never feel less than epic. The monsters themselves are colourful and gloriously grotesque, arriving
The original Dead Island managed to be a commercial success despite being roundly dismissed by most critics. Its sequel, if you can call a game that’s near-identical in practically every respect a sequel, does nothing to address its legion mechanical shortcomings, instead delivering more of exactly the same. It’s even set on a sister island
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