Review by John Cranston Dead Island: Riptide sees the return of four survivors of a zombie apocalypse (and one other guy they found on a boat). Did they make it to safety? Nope. Did they get marooned on the island next door, Jurassic Park 2 style? Yep. Will you like it? Probably not. Developers Techland [...]
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Dead Island: Riptide – Xbox 360 review
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 review (XBLA)
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Review by John Cranston Paul Daniels. David Blaine. Sooty. All experts in the field of magic. But there’s one name that surpasses them – Richard Garfield – the man who invented the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, which has entranced players across the globe since 1990. After porting the game onto current-gen consoles in [...]
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier review (Xbox 360)
Thursday, May 24th, 2012Review by John Cranston This week I learned “techno-thriller”, while sounding like the title of a Lady Gaga song, is in fact a genre of fiction largely populated by the works of Tom Clancy. With the release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, you’re once more invited into his world of soldiers, spies and souped-up guns [...]
SoulCalibur V review (PS3)
Saturday, February 4th, 2012Review by John Cranston Welcome back to the stage of history, a time when combat was civilised and men, women and monsters fought each other with swords and sticks, not their bare fists. With this new instalment, developers Project Soul have done much with SoulCalibur V - available now for PS3 and Xbox 360 - to ensure it [...]
Gears of War 3 – Xbox 360 review
Sunday, December 11th, 2011Review by John Cranston The final instalment of the Gears of War trilogy was released by Epic Games in September this year and I’m finally writing about it. It’s testament to its quality that every time I’ve tried to sit down at my desk I have ended up playing it instead. It’s the jewel in [...]
Child of Eden – Xbox 360 review
Saturday, June 25th, 2011Review by John Cranston In the 23rd century humanity moves freely amongst the stars, it’s collective memories now stored in a vast network known as Eden. Scientists attempt to introduce Lumi, an artificial intelligence construct, to this database but inadvertently unleash a virus which attacks the memories held within Eden. It’s your job to dive [...]
LA Noire – Xbox 360 review
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011The year is 1947, the rising mood of optimism in post-WW2 America and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood can barely conceal the dark, criminal underworld gnawing at the moral fabric of society. Cole Phelps, a decorated ex-US Marine, is trying to make a name for himself among the crime-fighters of the LAPD, looking to [...]
Dead Space 2 review [Xbox 360]
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Review by John Cranston Three years have passed since the terrifying events aboard USG Ishimura and the colony Aegis 7, and despite his apparent success in singularly saving humanity from the necromorph outbreak, Isaac Clarke is now imprisoned in a mental institution. When another outbreak occurs, Isaac finds himself once more facing nightmarish odds of [...]
Singularity – Xbox 360 review
Monday, July 19th, 2010Review by Johnus Maximus During the 1950′s, in a bid to become the dominant global superpower, Russian scientists are forced to embark on pioneering research into newly discovered element “E-99″, the results of which cause a catastrophic rift in space and time. Developed by Raven Software and published by Activision, Singularity is a first-person shooter [...]