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Caesar IV (Caesar IV)

13/10/2006

Friday 13 October 2006 Julius Caesar had really great hair. No, really. The onomastic root of 'caesar' is 'hairy', implying that the Caesars were well-know for having a finely styled head of hair - or, of course, that they were entirely bald, and all the other Romans were just having a laugh. Luckily, the Caesar series has always focused more on the later 'Emperor' meaning of the word, shirking any potential hair-raising connotations in favour of an historical city-building game. After the ...

Caesar IV - hands-on (Caesar IV)

15/09/2006

The last reign of a Caesar city-builder franchise was a full eight years ago, and in the time between the Caesar team produced the charming builder, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile. The pharaoh-themed Nile pushed the development team from a 2D palate into the 3D world, and the fourth Caesar game takes an even further graphical leap. Caesar IV takes full advantage of nearly every visual bell and whistle that you might think of - quashing the notion that this level of detail is reserved ...

All new Call Of Duty 4 maps played and rated (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

29/03/2008

Call Of Duty 4 is already better than unicorns, robots and light-sabers combined, but in just under a week it’s aiming to get even better with the release of the first downloadable add-on, the Variety Pack map collection for online multiplayer. ...

Call of Duty 4 - single-player hands-on (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

10/10/2007

Oct 10, 2007 Call of Duty 4 may have taken us by surprise this past E3 (2007, if you're reading this years from now for some reason), thanks to one of the prettiest, most tension-filled demos in gaming history. But going into a recent all-day play session with publisher Activision, we knew what to expect: cutting-edge visuals and the most intense military action this side of actual deployment. But even with our expectations sky high, it blew us away. We'll talk about the hours spent squeezing ...

Call of Duty 4 - multiplayer hands-on (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/08/2007

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare may have sent jaws to the floor during E3 with its tense single-player levels in realistic war zones, but the multiplayer was mostly a no-show. However, after getting a lengthy hands-on with the game's player-on-player action, we can say that it's just as impressive as CoD4's cinematic campaign - and addictive as all hell, to boot. Granted, our short time with CoD4's multiplayer only showed us one game type - team deathmatch - and the game seems pretty sparse at ...

E3 07: Call of Duty 4 - preview (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

19/07/2007

The Call of Duty 4 demo we were shown, instead of just showing a snippet of the game here or another bit there, gave us an excellent overview of the game's first mission: a helicopter infiltration, which drops you and your squad off on a ship crawling with soldiers during a storm. The key to Call of Duty 4 is its atmosphere. Sure, the gameplay is solid - but it wouldn't matter if the developers didn't completely nail cinematic presentation and hyper-realism that has become the series' ...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

13/06/2007

Even the biggest fans of WWII first-person shooters have to admit video game companies are beating a dead war. Thank the big Sergeant in the sky that original Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward is bringing its unique brand of sweat-inducing, urine-causing FPS intensity to a setting in this millennium. For Call of Duty 4, Infinity Ward fabricated its own fictional war. Studio head Vince Zampella says, "Today's real conflicts don't suit the Call of Duty style." That style deals with two equal ...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

25/05/2007

Ever-grinning Infinity Ward president Grant Collier has put on his serious face. “Folks thought it would be Vietnam or Iraq, but nobody thought it would be a fictional conflict,” he explains while revealing a snazzy T-shirt printed with a smart Call of Duty 4 logo on the front and a battle scene on the back. “Theres sensitivity about the subject matter, but we dont want people to misunderstand what were doing - its absolutely not about the war in Iraq…” Weve been ...

Call of Duty 4 (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/02/2007

Truth is, although Treyarch did an excellent job on Call of Duty 3s single-player game, it was held back by irritating vehicle sections and super-linearity. But online... man, we love it. So, with development of the Call of Duty series heading back to Infinity Ward (creators of Call of Duty 2 ) weve high hopes that they can up the game on single-player, pulling out the levels a bit and either making the vehicle sections and context-sensitive combat moments brilliant or dropping them ...

Call Of Duty: World at War - every mode played and previewed (Call Of Duty: World at War)

22/10/2008

Campaign, co-op and multiplayer, all given a thorough going over. ...

Call of Duty: World at War - multiplayer hands-on (Call Of Duty: World at War)

8/10/2008

Seriously, no offense to Call of Duty: World at War’s single player. Toiling through the Pacific and Eastern European theater, communicating with Keifer Sutherland and Gary Oldman, face melting flamethrowers that spits face-melting liquid death? We’re not complaining. You could argue that the immersive cinematic campaign helped Call of Duty 4 move 10 million copies, but it’s certainly not the reason why a healthy fraction ...

LGC 08: Why wait? Leipzig's biggest games reviewed NOW! (Call Of Duty: World at War)

26/08/2008

Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper. ...

Call of Duty: World at War (Call Of Duty: World at War)

19/08/2008

At this very moment, exhausted game journos are lurching across the globe to converge on Leipzig for a look at the industry’s latest. Tomorrow, when the show opens, this is what Activision will be showing the crowds of Call of Duty: World at War. ...

Call of Duty: World at War - dev interview (Call Of Duty: World at War)

4/08/2008

With Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward took its signature franchise into the 21st century. But we haven’t played our last WWII CoD game yet. Treyarch Studios, Activision’s B-team and developer of the console-only Call of Duty 3, is entrenched in the 1940s and hard at work on Call of Duty: World at War, which will come to the PC this year. ...

Call of Duty: World at War (Call Of Duty: World at War)

18/07/2008

Like Star Trek films we’ve come to expect the Call of Duty games to run one good, one bad. However, now that developer Treyarch sat us down in front of the game, we’ve removed our cynicism goggles to look upon the series with fresh, blood-spattered eyes. ...

Will the next Call of Duty suck? (Call Of Duty: World at War)

23/06/2008

As you probably already know, Call of Duty: World at War is due out this fall for 360, PS3, PC and Wii. Activision has turned to good ol’ reliable Treyarch to develop World at War, while series creators Infinity Ward are hard at work on the next ordinal chapter, Call of Duty 5, for sometime in the distant future. More Duty should be a good thing, right? But fans are worried that with Treyarch helming the Pacific-themed WWII shooter, ...

Call of Juarez (Call of Juarez)

22/06/2006

Most (if not all) cowboy games garble the ultra-pure western themes: revenge, greed, honor. Call of Juarez aims to stalk into Gamesville armed with these and gun down all pretenders. This shooter is an homage to the spaghetti western, crammed with duels, wagons, Stetsons, sheriffs, quick-palmed reloads, saloons, women in peril, women in bonnets... almost every detail has a big, echoey twang of authenticity. Juarez already has a powerful sense of place. A frequently attractive proprietary ...

Call of Juarez (Call of Juarez)

22/06/2006

Thursday 22 June 2006 Most (if not all) cowboy games garble the ultra-pure western themes: revenge, greed, honour. Call of Juarez aims to stalk into Gamesville armed with these and gun down all pretenders. This shooter is an homage to the spaghetti western, rammed with duels, wagons, Stetsons, sheriffs, quick-palmed reloads, saloons, women in peril, women in bonnets... almost every detail has a big, echoey twang of authenticity. Juarez already has a powerful sense of place. A frequently ...

Cars (Cars)

18/05/2006

Lately, we've seen a lot of movie-based games that try to expand on - instead of directly adapt - the story of the film they're based on. The Godfather did it, Over the Hedge did it and this summer, Cars will do it. Picking up where the movie left off, Cars casts players as red stock-car Lightning McQueen and sets them loose to explore the colorful desert town of Radiator Springs. ...

Pre-E3 06: CellFactor Hands-On (CellFactor: Revolution)

9/05/2006

One of the games Southpeak Interactive was showing behind closed doors on Tuesday was CellFactor: Combat Training, a PC first-person shooter that blew us away with its ridiculously cluttered environments and interactive debris. Originally developed as a tech demo to show off what the developer's software could do, CellFactor is being considered for market, possibly as a multiplayer-centric or budget title. Graphically, CellFactor is beautiful, looking like the drab-but-detailed Pariah with a ...