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As clichéd as it sounds Phantasy Star 0 is a game of two halves. While the online side of things is well worth a play, providing you have friends to play alongside, there’s not much fun to be had with the single player half of the game. It’s all just a little too generic.
Starting out [...]

Pieces Interactive are banking on everyone having at least one plastic guitar in their house to play their rock based platformer, Fret Nice. I have 5. None of them, sadly, make Fret Nice enjoyable.
Designed to be played entirely with a guitar controller, you realise the game is irreparably broken at the end of the second [...]

What makes a great game world? Aesthetics, atmosphere, characters or does it simply depend on the game within it? Find out with our Saboteur Review

Should Video Games and Board Games combine? Read our review of the Wii’s Hasbro Family Game Night Vol.2

When you think of Mario and Sonic you think of old times, blocky graphics and incredibly good advertising slogans like “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”. In all honesty after all the nostalgia has died down, the one thing you don’t think of are the Olympic Games.
Yet that’s what we saw two years ago in preparation for [...]

Ambition is the bane of game design. Sure, this generation of hardware has allowed for more possibilities but we are far from shaking off the shackles of restricted development, a great case in point is 5th Cell’s Scribblenauts. Their ambitious theory of letting the user’s imagination sculpt the game by spawning any item they could [...]

We get in a spin with some self-emulation of a emulation of the original film and try to decipher if The Godfather 2 is worth playing.

Whatever your point of view on the issue of violence in gaming you can’t argue that visually MadWorld is a winner but does it get it’s commentary on games as a medium spot on?

Looking for a guilty pleasure but not sure whether this will be the one for you? Check out our review of Vin Diesel’s The Wheelman

Keita Takahashi is well known for his vision seen in the charmingly lovable Katamari Damacy that was praised for it’s simple mechanics and idiosyncratic nature. After feeling that his original vision was played out by too many sequel’s Keita decided to move on to something different and fresh. Commendable. Although it’s kind of weird to [...]