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The Da Vinci Code (The Da Vinci Code)

May 24, 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 (Damnation)

Sep 9, 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. ...

Damnation (Damnation)

Apr 4, 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)

Feb 8, 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 Messiah of Might & Magic single player hands-on (Dark Messiah of Might and Magic)

Sep 15, 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 and Magic)

Jul 18, 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 and Magic)

Jul 17, 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 and Magic)

Jul 12, 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 and Magic)

Jul 7, 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 and Magic)

Jun 2, 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 and Magic)

Apr 6, 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 - ...

Capcom's Captivate 08 coverage (Dark Void)

Jun 3, 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)

Jun 3, 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)

May 29, 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 ...

Dark Void (Dark Void)

Dec 13, 2007

Dec 13, 2007 Right, were gonna get two words off our chests straight off the bat: Crimson. Skies. See, you wont read many previews of Dark Void without the inevitable mention of that all-but-forgotten stylised airplane shooter, which sadly joined such luminaries as Beyond Good and Evil and the ace Psychonauts in the ‘good but nobody bought them category of videogames. Which was a real shame, since it was very good indeed. Still, it looks as if somebody senior at Capcom still believes in ...

Dark Void: First look (Dark Void)

Oct 23, 2007

Oct 23, 2007 It's difficult to extrapolate the story, feel and impact of a game you've only seen running in trailer form. But we'll give it a go. Fortunately, Dark Void appears to be the sort of experience you can amusingly call 'WYSIWYG'. Because 'what you see is what you get' doesn't sound funny enough. Capcom's actioner blends together survival horror overtones (just look at that ghoulish logo), Ratchet & Clank high-octane gameplay and a near-Scientologist story arc. Aliens "create" us, we ...

Darkest of Days - first impressions (Darkest of Days)

Jul 12, 2007

"It's been an awful long time since a story driven shooter came out," said Aaron Schurman, CEO of Phantom EFX and creator of Darkest of Days. But it's also been a long time since we've seen a fun story about time travel. In Darkest of Days you'll find yourself at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before you're scalped and left for dead with Custer, a portal appears and a stranger tells you that you weren't meant to die here before he kicks the bucket himself. After entering the portal, you'll ...

DarkStar One (DarkStar One)

May 1, 2006

Explore the reaches of deep space - and a deeper storyline - in the epic adventure game DarkStar One. DSO's early good looks and promise of story-driven space action have us ready to go into the outer reaches of the universe. The DarkStar One is your ship, your fully customizable and upgradeable home that will grow and expand as you follow the mystery of your father's death. You'll have the freedom to travel as a pirate, trader, mercenary - or anything in between - in an open-ended universe ...

DC Universe Online (DC Universe Online)

Jul 15, 2008

As the first gamer to enter DC Universe Online, I can state with some confidence that it is not just World of Warcraft in tights. In working with this high-profile license, Sony Online Entertainment is preparing something special that it hopes will live up to the name. ...

Dead Island (Dead Island)

Jan 22, 2008

Nope, Dead Island isnt the latest necrophilia reality show - this is a new survival horror from the makers of half-decent cowboy shooter Call of Juarez. Kind of a bloodthirsty Far Cry-meets-Lost-meets-Resident Evil, Dead Island is set on a tropical paradise that inexplicably becomes a holiday haven for a different kind of evil tourist that likes to eat brains (and leave their towels all over the bathroom floor, probably). After a plane bringing you and your wife to the island crashes, you wake ...