All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
Fairytale Fights – Xbox360
Systems: Xbox360/Playstation 3. Developer: Playlogic Game Factory/Publisher: Playlogic International
Anyone who has peeled back the shabby corners of some of the best loved fairy stories will know the true, dark depths that lay beneath and the twisted idea of what once passed for happily ever after. Eschewing the modern, demure approach to these tales, Playlogic swings [...]
Worms 2: Armageddon – XBLA
Developer: Team17 Software Ltd / Publisher: Team17 Software Ltd
Creative weaponry, silly voices, and carnage – no it isn’t a gamer speed-dating event…everyone’s favourite invertebrate slaughter-mongers are back. Worms is one of those games so firmly entrenched in gaming culture that whether they have played it or not, most gamers will at least have heard of [...]
Populous DS
Developer: EA Japan / Publisher: Rising Star Games
Twenty years ago, the God genre was kick-started by the work of two men, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright. While Wright introduced the world to Sim City and went on to produce arguably some of the most commercially successful games in the God genre and it’s Jesus offshoot, [...]
Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome – DS
Developer: cerasus.media / Publisher: Rising Star Games
For what at first glance seemed to be a ten-a-penny puzzle game, Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome strives to bring a little extra to the tile-swapping party and surprisingly, attains some success. Cradle of Rome is a puzzle game of the ‘match 3 tiles’ variety with the added task [...]
Dungeon Maker – DS
Developer: Global A Entertainment / Publisher: Rising Star Games
When I first saw the name of this game, I’ll admit to getting rather excited. The thought of dungeons, creatures and management put me in mind of one of my all time favourite games – Dungeon Keeper. I leapt at the chance to review it, even though [...]
Buku Sudoku – XBLA
Developer: Absolutist Ltd./Publisher: Xbox LIVE Arcade
Sudoku is one of those things which has crept from the sensible, inky pages of the morning papers where it nestled beside crosswords and quizzes, and slowly permeated into the world of console games. After appearing on the more obvious formats such as the DS, it arrives rather demurely on [...]
