This is the year that fighting games make a glorious comeback. With a flurry of sword swipes, hadokens and several applications of boot to face, it seems all the big players in the beat-em-up genre are upping the ante. Leading the charge is the latest Soul Calibur.
When developer Neversoft first announced it was working on this, gamers, hacks and pundits everywhere scoffed at the idea that a Guitar Hero game based around the career of one band could possibly work. Call it a social experiment, as it will be interesting to see if the band's popularity rises as a result of the game. For the most...
Did someone take a boot to the arse of movie-tie in developers recently or are these games actually, ever so slowly, getting better? Wall-E, hold on to your hats, is another smart and challenging kids title, making the most of its source material in what is a fun and charming experience.
NASCAR is possibly the true artist's car sport; a veritable ballet of control and reaction with three dozen metal boxes flowing round a circuit in a stream of movement, tidy, beautiful and masterful. Which is why it's soon apparent that there's something about Stock Car Racing that just doesn't work outside of the real thing, sure it's...
It's an interesting irony that although there are plenty of games based on real sports, few were invented solely in the world of gaming. The one which arguably does buck that trend is Unreal Tournament. Having burst onto the scene in 1999 as a spin-off from the original Unreal, it quickly took over as the far better game. Basing itself around...
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