CONTENT ARCHIVE | 2012 | THE BEGINNING!
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CORPSE PARTY PSP 18th June 2012
2011, XSeed Games, Horror Adventure Homebrew wizard's Team GrisGris made the bold move of programming a horror adventure using the 16-bit RPGMaker tool. Sprites can't be scary surely? The Pixel Empire investigates a Japanese Horror narrative that charms and chills in equal measure, and is one that will live long in the memory... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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INNOCENT LIFE: A FUTURISTIC HARVEST MOON PSP 18th June 2012
2007, Rising Star Games, Business/RPG Futuristic turns out not to be code for 'advancement' as Harvest Moon is sent back to the dark ages in this lacklustre PSP farming adventure. READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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HEART OF THE ALIEN SCD 9th June 2012
1994, Virgin Interactive, 2D Action/Adventure Devious design, cinematic atmosphere, die-at-any-moment gameplay. Add a sci-fi dystopia for a setting, an unlikely friendship between man and alien, and a foreboding soundtrack. Sound familiar? It turns out Lester Chaykin and Buddy's story didn't end with Another World... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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TERMINATOR SALVATION PS3 6th June 2012
2009, Evolved Games, Third-person shoot 'em up No Arnie, no fun? Swedish developer GRIN faced an uphill struggle adapting the mediocre fourth Terminator film into gaming form. Would John Connor's fight against the machines capture the imagination, or would he be outnumbered and outgunned by the Uncharted's of the gaming world? READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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BALDUR'S GATE: DARK ALLIANCE
PS2 31st May 2012 2001, Interplay, RPG Baldur's Gate trod the long road from PC to console in 2001, trading depth for accessibility. Do the amply-endowed tavern wenches and the sparkling graphics engine work their magic on PS2, or was something lost in translation? READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM PS3 31st May 2012
2009, Eidos, Action/Adventure Batman has never been darker, never been badder. Never been better? Read about how Rocksteady's awesome action/adventure helped put the 'super' back in superhero games... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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RAW DANGER PS2 29th May 2012
2007, Agetec, Action/Adventure Dodgy graphics, hilarious voice-acting, wooden animation, terrible effects, suspect physics... The follow up to cult-classic SOS: The Final Escape couldn't be any good... Could it? You may be surprised... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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THE LEGEND OF SPYRO:
THE ETERNAL NIGHT PS2 29th May 2012 2007, Sierra, 3D Platformer What happened to Spyro? The Pixel Empire perform the autopsy on the purple dragon's gaming nadir... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SMD 26th May 2012
1991, SEGA, 2D Platformer SEGA's single most important release, as they fought back against the dominant Mario/SNES combination and ensuring the dominance of the platform genre in the early nineties. We recount the many elements that made the blue hedgehog's debut so good, and why it lived long in the memory for a generation of gamers... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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ENSLAVED: ODYSSEY TO THE WEST
PS3 24th May 2012 2010, Namco Bandai, Action/Adventure The highs and lows of the HD-generation adventure game are explored in Ninja Theory's attractive, appealing and likeable yarn. It's an 'opposites attract' story that offers up plenty of big-budget effects, but little in the way of memorable gameplay... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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MOTORSTORM RC PS3 23rd May 2012
2012, Sony, Racing It could be the most remarkable series rebirth in modern gaming. But enough with the small talk - find out how thinking-big led Evolution Studios to miniaturise MotorStorm and create one of the most addictive games of recent times... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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OUTRUN SMD 22nd May 2012
1991, SEGA, Arcade Racing A five year transition from arcade to home console proved a long journey for Outrun. SEGA's bright 'n' breezy driving game retains many of the iconic features that made it such a success in the eighties, but also highlights how quickly racers around it had progressed into the early nineties. READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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THE SHOOT PS3 19th May 2012
2010, Sony, Gallery Shoot 'em up During the early days of the PlayStation Move, Cohort Studios came up trumps with an underrated blaster that offered an unusually accessible experience for players of all skill and experience levels. Find out why The Shoot still represents such good value in the review... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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SILENT HILL: SHATTERED MEMORIES
PS2 19th May 2012 2010, Konami, Survival-Horror Do western developers 'get' Silent Hill? Climax's reimagening of Team Silent's seminal survival-horror made a brave attempt to break the series' cycle of ever-diminishing returns. Shattered Memories represented a major change of direction, but was it a step in the right direction? READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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RIDGE RACER TYPE 4 PSone 19th May 2012
1999, Namco, Racing Relive one of the finest arcade racers of the late nineties - and one of the PlayStation's most attractive games - as Namco sought to rest the racing crown it lost to Gran Turismo in one of the most anticipated showdowns of its era. READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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BIOSHOCK PS3 19th May 2012
2008, 2K Games, FPS Home to Rapture, one of the richest, most evocative locations in modern gaming. BioShock's alternative-history sees pioneering capitalist Andrew Ryan build a subterranean society free of moral boundaries, the chaotic downfall of which is explored in this gripping FPS. READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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ALIEN TRILOGY PSone 19th May 2012
1996, Acclaim, Corridor FPS 1996, when men were men and FPS's were all Doom clones. Acclaim's creepy blaster makes uncommonly good use of a film licence however, with buckets of xenomorph-blasting fun within. The scuttling of those facehuggers will haunt you for ages... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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RAGE RACER PSone 19th May 2012
1997, Namco, Racing The king of the checkpoint-chasing arcade racers got a moody new paint job for it's third instalment, it's characteristically modest selection of tracks proving irresistible. Rage gave us tuning options, custom paint jobs, massive waterfalls and a leather-clad pit girl by the name of Reiko Negase... READ THE REVIEW HERE |
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