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Galactic Civilizations II: The Dark Avatar (Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar)

2/01/2007

It takes a while to separate the new stuff in Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords from the really new stuff in the Dark Avatar expansion pack. Stardock has been continually improving the core game since its release, so if you havent played it for a while, you might not be sure where to draw the line between “update” and ...

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar expansion (Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar)

10/10/2006

When we last left the Galactic Civilizations universe, the evil Drengin Empire just about had everything - and everyone - rolled up. So, at the start of the upcoming strategy expansion pack, called Dark Avatar, the Drengin reign over the galaxy is so complete that their worst enemy is now from within. In-fighting has split their grip on the empire, and the most powerful faction, the Korath, now demand the extermination of all non-Drengin races. You are the Dark Avatar, chief of the Drengin ...

Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor (Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor)

19/09/2007

Sept 19, 2007 You won't find any big breasted babes or recycled Warcraft-in-space gameplay here for mass appeal's sake. Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor sticks to what the series does best with deep 4X turn-based space strategy and more technology to research, ships to build, and planets to conquer. But try explaining how Galactic Civilizations can mesmerize you with menus and endless branches of tech, and the person you're talking too will probably walk away mid-sentence. ...

Gears of War - hands-on (Gears of War)

26/10/2007

Oct 26, 2007 We're playing the Gears of War PC's new King of the Hill mode, which has just seen four other players kill each other viciously from behind one after another in a hilarious cartoon chain of death. As the legendary lead designer CliffyB said to me earlier in the day, the new multiplayer game is indeed, "f---ing hilarious." Gears of War has shifted over four million copies on Xbox 360 alone, won countless Game of the Year awards and become one of the most popular online shooters of ...

E3 07: Gears of War - hands-on (Gears of War)

12/07/2007

It's been about 8 months since Gears of War's orgiastic celebration of blood, guts, and in-your-face visceral gameplay upped the ante for shooters when it debuted on the Xbox 360. This week, game designer Cliff Bleszinski finally acknowledged what gamers have been expecting for quite some time, that Gears of War would be blasting its way to the PC. This holiday season, both XP and Vista users can look forward to five new chapters added to the story mode, a new multiplayer mode, and 3 new maps. ...

G-Force - hands-on (G-Force)

2/04/2009

What's the result when you mix a Jerry Bruckheimer live-action extravaganza, a bit of CG magic, and adorable rodents? A bizarre question to be sure, but Disney will answer it this summer with G-Force, a family-friendly action flick starring a series of guinea pig secret agents. Smirk if you'd like, but kids love guinea pigs, and where there's scent of a new franchise that kids might go crazy over, you'd better believe Disney has a video game ...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (Ghost Recon 2)

28/05/2004

(9MB, MOV)We've sent teams of crack operatives into tense close-combat action in Rainbow Six, steered one-man stealth specialist Sam Fisher into the murky conspiracies of Splinter Cell, and taken squad-based combat out into the great beyond in Ghost Recon. What's left for the Tom Clancy line to sink its political teeth into?Put simply: war. This is the kind of filthy war that stretches out as far as the eye can see, with explosions and shrapnel spraying with every click of the mouse.Ghost Recon ...

GRAW 2 - multiplayer hands-on (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

19/04/2007

Despite its liberal use of Tom Clancy's name, it wasn't GRAW 2's story or the single-player campaign that made it such a success on the 360, it was the big-ass bag of multiplayer modes the game brought with it. That's why we were excited to sample two new multiplayer modes - Team Deathmatch and Recon vs Assault - when we infiltrated the closed multiplayer beta. Keep in mind that these two modes are likely just the tip of the iceberg. GRAW 2 for the PC won't be a doppelganger of its 360 brother ...

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - co-op hands-on (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

13/03/2007

In the world of console shooters, two player co-op is sooo 2001. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2's sixteen player missions rewrite the book on cooperative gameplay. Remember, we're talking about the console world here, so PC geeks should STFU and go back to playing Battlefield. Still with us? Good. Here's the intel on GRAW 2 's co-op ...

GRAW 2 - updated impressions (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

14/02/2007

They call it “putting the ‘Recon back in Ghost Recon,” but the host of stealth-friendly tactical enhancements GRAW2 adds to the tactical FPS could just as well constitute the “Ghost” part. And if theyre putting both back in, then that would rather imply the previous game was a bit blank. Developer GRINs solution - and its hard not to imagine them beaming confidently as they went about it - will make the PC version crucially different from the Xbox. Youre still ...

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - multiplayer hands-on (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

2/02/2007

How much more advanced can an Advanced Warfighter really get in one year? That's the question we've been asking ourselves ever since Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 was announced for release in March 2007 on Xbox 360, PC and PSP (as well as on PS3 in June). How much better or different could the sequel possibly be with so little time between it and the original? The single player campaign ended up surprising us with niftily updated gadgets and gripping level design, but the ...

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - single player hands-on (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

10/01/2007

You've created one of the best games of 2006. You've appealed to critics and consumers alike. And through a combination of high quality and good timing, your product was dubbed the first truly next-gen experience by most press outlets. So what do you do for a sequel, especially if you plan on releasing it a mere year after the outstanding original? In the case of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (mercifully referred to as GRAW 2 for the rest of this preview), the developer has ...

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - first look (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2)

19/12/2006

When Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter launched its assault on Xbox 360 it was one of the first games to really earn its next-gen stripes. Glorious visuals, sweet tech tricks and intense gameplay combined to make it one of the best games of 2006. And, as our first look at the 360 version has revealed, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is looking even better. Even more advanced, if you will. The action picks up where the previous game left off - Ubisoft told us that the sequel is like the second ...

Ghostbusters vs the Real Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

4/12/2008

When Atari's Ghostbusters games ship next year, it'll have been a mere 25 years since Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson first donned their proton packs for the big screen and "Who you gonna call?" was a national catch phrase. In that time there have been a number of videogames that attempted to bring the loveable foursome home, but none have really captured the core spirit of the films. Until now. ...

Ghostbusters The Video Game - hands on (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

4/08/2008

As I stepped out of the Ecto-1 and stood on the steps of the New York Public Library alongside Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis (Bill Murray isn’t along for this particular call) listening to the team chatter, Ghostbusters’ Associate Producer Ryan French explained that my experimental proton pack was fully loaded for the purposes of this demo. ...

Ghostbusters - hands-on (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

14/07/2008

For children of the '80s, there are many pop culture touchtones - just watch VH1 on any given Sunday and you will see dozens of examples. One of the biggest was Ghostbusters, and after two decades since Ghostbusters II and the series' descent into nostalgic obscurity, it's making a return in a big way to consoles and PC. That is a damn sight better than Extreme Ghostbusters...

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Ghostbusters The Video Game (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

12/12/2007

Dec 12, 2007 There's nothing quite like a comeback story to capture the imagination. In 1989, the Ghostbusters were down and out, broke and about as popular as a council health inspector about to rupture a spirit containment system. Forced to suffer the ignominy of making guest appearances at the parties of ungrateful snot-nosed brats in exchange for a few bucks, the boys in boiler suits were about as low as they could get without actually being scalded by the Earth's ...

Global Agenda (Global Agenda)

9/03/2009

In our perfect world, everyone wears a jetpack. Like rainbow sprinkles, they tend to improve anything they’re attached to, and that includes shooters - just ask the 30-foot war obelisk we’ve commissioned to commemorate Starsiege: Tribes. ...

Glory of the Roman Empire (Glory of the Roman Empire)

19/04/2006

What makes the Roman Empire the most fascinating and storied regime in all of history? The Romans were so far ahead of their time that it is nearly impossible to find a social or political issue today where a Roman wouldn't sniff, "been there, done that." At its apogee, the Roman Empire stretched from Great Britain to Constantinople, an impossibly complex social and military achievement 2,000 years ago. Glory of the Roman Empire simulates the Roman society at a granular level, and enables us ...

The Godfather (The Godfather)

28/07/2006

While it's ostensibly a crime movie, The Godfather seems a weird choice for a video-game adaptation. There's violence, sure, but it's far outweighed in screen time by ruminations on familial responsibility, weddings, funerals, grouchy conversations in poorly lit rooms and boiling pots of pasta. That's probably why EA chose to make its version of The Godfather about the Mafia's foot soldiers instead of its stuffy, slow-moving generals. Opening in 1945, the Godfather game follows the plot of the ...