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The Da Vinci Code (The Da Vinci Code)

24/05/2006

Friday 28 April 2006 The film is out next month. The multi-million selling book is still pounding the sales charts week after week. It's was about time we delve into The Da Vinci Code game and unravel the mystery of what it's actually like to play. Although it's based on the film, The Da Vinci Code fleshes out the action with a fresh line-up of cryptic puzzles and locations. For example, Langdon - the bookish hero - treads the stones in a church called Saint-Sulpice, while his cryptologist ...

Damnation – hands-on (Damnation)

27/02/2009

For those who can’t seem to make up their mind between buying a new shooter or a platformer, now you can have both in Blue Omega’s upcoming release, Damnation. The game takes place in an alternate future, as though the American Civil War has dragged on well into the 22nd century. You play as Captain Hamilton Rourke, who leads a guerrilla resistance force called the Peacekeepers. We were able to get our hands on some gameplay at last week’s Codemasters Gamers’ Day 2009, but with the release date only a month away, we could only hope that the final build will show some improvements.
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Damnation (Damnation)

15/01/2009

There are times when a game’s influences are buried well beneath its own style and fresh ideas leaving only the internet’s finest forum detectives to stroke their cyber-chins and ponder what rival discs were spinning away in the dev’s debug kits during development. ...

Damnation (Damnation)

9/09/2008

To fully understand what Damnation is about, you have to forget about Gears of War 2. Forget that they’re both third-person shooters. Forget that they both use the same satisfying over-the-shoulder aiming method. Forget that both have the same darkened ‘ruined beauty’ visual style that is the Unreal Engine’s trademark. ...

LGC 08: Why wait? Leipzig's biggest games reviewed NOW! (Damnation)

26/08/2008

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

Damnation (Damnation)

4/04/2008

Maybe Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler and Steve Buscemi had a point. The Lone Rangers might have been a terrible name for a band, but at least the three airheads realised that you’re guaranteed a longer lifespan as a unit. So while Captain Rouke apes the quintessential Eastwood-loner, he’s going to be a few bullet holes short of a brain if he decides to go it alone. ...

Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the Minotaur (Dark Age of Camelot)

8/02/2007

Most MMOs are lucky enough to release at all, let alone gallop into their sixth year with no sign of flagging; constantly adding fresh content without damaging the original concepts that made the project a success to begin with is dicey business. When in doubt, though: add dragons. Such is part of the agenda Mythic Entertainment has in mind for its long-running, defiantly tripartite MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot. In a break from tradition and quick on the heels of Novembers expansion Labyrinth ...

Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the Minotaur (Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the Minotaur)

8/02/2007

The Dark Eye: Drakensang – hands-on (The Dark Eye: Drakensang)

15/01/2009

Never heard of Drakensang? Get in line. It's an old fashioned RPG following the traditions of isometric view, point-and-click controls, and pausing the action with the good ol' spacebar. ...

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic single player hands-on (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

15/09/2006

Our recent hands-on with Dark Messiah of Might & Magic makes it clear that this is an extremely tough game to pigeonhole into a specific genre. Its brutal, physical first-person action crashes viciously through the tidy role-playing box we'd thought to drop it into when we first heard about it. Our recent hands-on of the first few single player levels violently proves that this isn't just another first-person ...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

18/07/2006

Tuesday 18 July 2006 After being charmed by the lively goblin bashing action of its single-player mode, it was with beard trembling excitement that we sat down recently for a hands-on with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's multiplayer to discover what this fantasy action treat has tucked up its mage's sleeve for gamers who like to play in force. First up, the basics: up to 32 players can opt to side with either human or undead factions and can fight as one of five character classes - archer, ...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

17/07/2006

Forcing Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's single-player story and gameplay into a single, distinct genre is just about impossible. But pegging Dark Messiah's multiplayer Crusade mode as sharply influenced by the iconic Battlefield series, and finding the fingerprints of the seminal Team Fortress all over its deep gameplay is clearly right on the money. OK, so it's got a magical (and mighty) twist, but this is class-based team multiplayer at its core - and dare we say - at its finest. We got a ...

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

12/07/2006

Wednesday 12 July 2006 You should have already seen just how exciting Dark Messiah of Might & Magic's action-packed combat is - just check out some of the footage on our movies tab - but now we've finally had a chance to thrash about in one of the game's single-player levels. And we're pleased to tell you that the orc-bashing feels fantastic. Dark Messiah has a pleasing grittiness to skirmishes that highlights the game's differences to fellow first-person fantasy game, Oblivion. This is a ...

See the Dark Messiah (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

7/07/2006

• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (WMV, 10.7MB) Monday 22 May 2006 With its constant in-your-face combat, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is set to deliver a far more action orientated experience than fellow first-person adventurer Oblivion. This new trailer will give you an insight into your ultimate adversary, an evil force summoned by a fiendish band of wrong-doers. Don't let the cheddar-grade plot put you off. Dark Messiah's combat system and attention to detail is remarkable. Your ...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

2/06/2006

Ubisoft has spilled a few details on the multiplayer modes included with its upcoming first-person fantasy saga Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Sure, Dark Messiah is a role-playing game, but one rammed with so much physical action that it only made sense to spill that into a multiplayer game. In Dark Messiah's Crusade mode, two 16-player teams will enter multiple-round campaigns to conquer one another's castles by capturing control points and killing off the opposition. Teams will choose ...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

6/04/2006

You've cleaned out all the treasure that you can carry - but its former owners are hot on your trail. A yawning chasm stretches before you. You can just make out a rocky outcropping beyond the divide. As an assassin, you know that you can make the leap - confidence in your abilities is well-deserved, as you've crossed hurdles like these many times before. Torch-light and screams of hatred swell behind you; it's time to go. Hitting your stride quickly, you nail the landing on the outcropping - ...

Dark Sector - multiplayer hands-on (Dark Sector)

26/02/2008

We recently gave a detailed hands-on look at Dark Sector’s single-player levels, including a rundown on the game’s signature weapon, the glaive. Last week at GDC we were able to try out the two multiplayer modes, known as Infection and Epidemic. In Infection, one player starts out as Hayden, the main character from the single-player story. All of the powers and upgrades normally earned through progress in the game are ...

Capcom's Captivate 08 coverage (Dark Void)

3/06/2008

Last week Capcom revealed one of its strongest lineups in ages during the Captivate 08 event (we briefly talked about it on TalkRadar). The embargos have lifted and now we're able to say what we saw, what we played and what totally stole the show (it surprised the hell out of us, that's for sure). We'll be adding links throughout the day, so read on! ...

Dark Void - first impressions (Dark Void)

3/06/2008

If you don't have any fond memories of Crimson Skies, we have two things to say. First, shame on you for not playing one of Xbox's best games. Second, go download it now - it's part of 360's "Xbox Originals" lineup. Once you have, you'll find yourself immersed in a beautifully crafted alternate world where planes ruled instead of cars and a storyline that brought the gee-whiz sense of adventure so prominent in old westerns to a gaming ...

Dark Void (Dark Void)

29/05/2008

Dark Void isn’t the kind of game you should bring round for tea with the vicar, and that’s not just because it stars a hero who smashes human skulls for larks. According to Dark Void’s storyline, the true nature of the gods is quite removed from the sugar-coated version used to keep church donation boxes rattling. The gods we’ve worshipped for millennia, Dark Void tells us, were in fact an evil Alien Race who, in ...