Some people are never satisfied, but we love it when someone takes something great and makes it even better. Pioneering upgraders like Pamela Anderson and the boys at Orange County Choppers would take one look at WWE's Stacy Kiebler and say to themselves, "I wonder if we could make her legs even longer?"
These are our heroes - and they exist in the gaming community as well. They are called Modders.
Modders are folks who make, well, modifications to popular PC games. Like the legendary mod of
While fiddling around during our hands-on time with Chromehounds, we discovered a few tricks of the trade we'd like to clue you in on so that you'll be fully prepared to slap together a brutal robot of ultimate destruction. We've compiled our little handbook of how-to horror, and to seal the deal we captured video of the building process (sped up for the sake of time) along with our titanium terrors in action on the battlefield. So drink deep from our well of kill-bot carnage knowledge.
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We were incredibly excited when we heard that Over G Fighters was going to be released on the 360. Finally, a detailed flight simulator featuring the latest in high-powered jet technology... or so we thought. When we actually got our hands on this dogfighter, imagine our dismay at the discovery that the game was mind-numbingly boring. How a game-maker can damage the experience of tearing the sky a new horizon by submerging the entire feel in the sludgy bowels of molasses where Over G resides is
If you thought you had it rough in school, be thankful your teachers (and fellow students) weren't lobbing razor-sharp needles through your guts or chopping you in half with a five-foot sword. As we tore through Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, these uber-violent moments of ninja-awesomeness consistently slapped our jaws to the floor. We've compiled six of the coolest moments in our exclusive video, or you can read on for the play-by-play details.
Up first is Neji Hyuga, a student who's well on his way
With its flaming bad guys and slo-mo headshots, Urban Chaos has become a favorite of ours as an absurdist humor goldmine. With cheats, it's even sillier than you can imagine... fortunately, you're at GamesRadar, so you don't have to imagine anything (unless you really want to). We've stitched up six different cheats into a mash-up video of hilarious proportions, just click the movies tab above to drench yourself in awesomeness. Combining headless mode, disco lights, the mini-gun, incendiary
Never played Valkyrie Profile, right? Sure, a few of you out there did, but the game's developer tri-Ace didn't hit it big till years later - with Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. That PS2 RPG captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of gamers. But it was hardly the first epic adventure tri-Ace had taken on. No, the company's roots reach much further back.
The original Star Ocean debuted on the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo. Arriving almost comically late - July 1996, almost
For some people, vacations are a time to relax. Not us. When we check out of reality and go on an extended holiday in the fantasy land of Cyrodiil, we want action and lots of it. We want to find new and interesting ways to practically kill ourselves that no sane mortal would dare attempt.
The beauty of Oblivion is that if you can see it, you can generally go there, somehow, even if it involves incredible risk and searing pain. It's that spirit that drives our daredevil guide to The Elder
For some people, vacations are a time to relax. Not us. When we check out of reality and go on an extended holiday in the fantasy land of Cyrodiil, we want action and lots of it. We want to find new and interesting ways to practically kill ourselves that no sane mortal would dare attempt.
The beauty of Oblivion is that if you can see it, you can generally go there, somehow, even if it involves incredible risk and searing pain. It's that spirit that drives our daredevil guide to The Elder
By now, you've probably had a chance to try out the $20 PS2 version of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Maybe you've even finished it. Perhaps, through some sheer force of dedication, you've even managed to tear your way through its dozens of side missions and bonus tasks.
But even so, we're willing to bet that there's some stuff not even you've done. Horrible stuff. The kind of stuff that makes grown men sit bolt upright in the dead of night and cry out, "Damn! I wish I'd thought of
As we played through Hitman: Blood Money, we couldn't help but be captivated by both the moody environment and the twisted sense of humor. In fact, we were so tickled by Agent 47's various methods of madness that we shot a couple of our favorites on our uber high-tech video capture stations and stitched 'em together for you in a feature we've titled "Hitman: Blood Money's Top
