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Jade Empire - hands-on (Jade Empire: Special Edition)

5/02/2007

Hang on a minute. So were the last of an embattled group of mystical fighters, killed off by the forces of an evil empire, yet as a baby we were smuggled away and secreted far off to a rural community where our presence would not be felt? And weve been sent by our master into a ‘spirit cave where well learn about our true self, and later be spoken to by glittery blue/pale ghosts trapped between life and death? This rings a bell thats somewhat far away and relatively long ...

Jade Empire: Special Edition (Jade Empire: Special Edition)

27/10/2006

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed RPGs for the Xbox is headed to the PC in Jade Empire. Set in a mystical version of China (but crafted by Canadians), the game offered a fantastic story populated by colorful characters speaking excellent dialogue and mixed it with deep gameplay full of magic, monsters, and martial arts. The PC version brings all these qualities as well, while managing to bring the kung-fu chaos to a whole new level. As you'd expect, the graphics are the most ...

James Cameron’s Avatar: Hands-on (James Cameron's Avatar: The Game)

6/11/2009

Five minutes into this prequel to the forthcoming sci-fi flick and we feel like we’re in one of the year’s most generic games. As we step off our transport into the alien planet Pandora, all the elements are in place for a generic third-person shooter. Main character who's a stoic military type with a crew cut: check. NPCs we have to seek out for missions: Oh yeah. A 40 foot monster that looks like a mad scientist has forced a hammerhead ...

Joe Danger: First great download game of 2010 (Joe Danger)

16/11/2009

What do LittleBigPlanet, bikes and Sonic and have in common? ...

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising)

30/04/2004

For more on Joint Ops, to head to the game's official website There's just one thing missing from Joint Ops: Wagner's The Ride of The Valkyries. Nothing else quite fits the bill as you and your team take a wing of troop-packed Blackhawks towards the LZ, crew-mounted weapons darkening the skies with a deluge of shell-cases. Joint Ops wants to draw your attention away from two major players: PlanetSide and Battlefield 1942. This massively multi-player online shooter combines the best aspects of ...

Joint Task Force hands-on (Joint Task Force)

30/08/2006

There may be nothing new under the sun, but at least you can strive to do things very well. Joint Task Force is a squad-based, real-time strategy game that offers a small number of new wrinkles, and then folds them into making a really good first impression. Set sometime in the very near future, JTF puts you in command of the titular military organization, a kind of freelance peacekeeping group formed from the best and brightest around the globe. In the single-player game, you're sent to a ...

Jumpgate: Evolution - hands-on (Jumpgate: Evolution)

20/02/2009

During our hands on play with Jumpgate Evolution at Codemasters’ Gamers Day 2009, I thought to myself how much I enjoyed playing Colony Wars on the PlayStation. How simple it was to journey through space and engage in dog-fights (not the illegal kind) with enemy ships, the sense of achievement felt when completing a mission. A lot of that nostalgia came back to me when playing Jumpgate Evolution. ...

Jumpgate Evolution - hands-on (Jumpgate: Evolution)

8/01/2009

You don’t wash your dishes with a lawnmower. Even if they’re encrusted with a week’s worth of shameful burrito negligence, you do it the right way: let them soak and steep, hoping that the grime frees itself overtime. It’s an inelegant metaphor, but one that applies to the ambitious designMMO house NetDevil has planned. ...

Jumpgate: Evolution (Jumpgate: Evolution)

14/05/2008

Jumpgate: Evolution is NetDevil’s new MMO. The comparisons leap out at you - Stargate, Babylon 5 and even Star Wars all came to mind as we prepared to grapple with whatever crooked implementation of mouse-and-keyboard space flight they’d undoubtedly concocted. To our great surprise, on letting our stubby fingers maneuver our sprightly little fighter-jet into the infinite blackness of space, we were afforded the greatest of ...

Just Cause - hands-on (Just Cause)

7/09/2006

Your mullet is muy thick, senor. And it streams gloriously in the wind as you throw yourself out the plane and plummet toward an island hundreds of miles below, where whores live in volcanoes, and roaming militias of bloodthirsty madmen slaughter each other for land and power. The ground approaches rapidly, and you can see a highway winding through the wilderness, so you pull the cord and the parachute flares out. You float down into oncoming traffic, land on the roof of a car, then leap ...

Just Cause (Just Cause)

28/07/2006

One game that has grabbed our attention firmly by the cojones is Just Cause from Swedish developer, Avalanche Studios. Not only does it look absolutely gorgeous but, by dropping the player into a huge, tropical hotbed of anarchic action, it promises an overload of riotous fun when it's released this fall. After being mighty impressed during our latest hands-on with the game, we tracked down Avalanche's content director, Odd Ahlgren, and liberated some answers from him about Just Cause, big ...

Just Cause (Just Cause)

30/06/2006

Just Cause is shaping up to be something beyond incredible. When were mighty impressed when we saw it at E3 and now, after savoring another hands-on with the game, we're still smitten. And it's not just the eye-meltingly gorgeous graphics or the indulgently expansive play area that has us quivering at the knees - when you play Just Cause it's like a mushroom cloud-laying fun bomb going off in your face. If you're unfamiliar with the set-up, here's a quick rundown: you play CIA agent Rico ...

Pre-E3 06: Just Cause (Just Cause)

8/05/2006

We'll just get the obvious out of the way - Just Cause is essentially a prettier, slightly more featured version of Grand Theft Auto, sipping an umbrella drink. You've got the massive, open-ended environments, 180 land, sea and air vehicles to play with and countless thugs who all want you dead. So what's the hook? You've got the unofficial backing of the United States and a big ol' tropical playground to blow apart. And ironically enough, it's literally a hook that makes the game move. If you ...

Just Cause 2 - hands-on (Just Cause 2)

13/11/2009

The first order of business in Just Cause 2 isn’t to steal a car, or motorcycle, or ATV, or fighter jet, or attack chopper. It isn’t to go exploring the miles and miles of jungles, mountains, and cities. No, first you must wrap your head around the grappling hook and parachute. ...

E3 09: Just Cause 2 - Interview (Just Cause 2)

8/06/2009

Avalanche Studio's Magnus Nedfors had a chat with our E3 team last week to discuss the new features, more detailed world, and insane stunts in Just Cause 2. Listen up below for the latest details on what could be one of 2010's biggest games. ...

Just Cause 2 (Just Cause 2)

31/03/2009

It would be easy to dismiss Just Cause 2 as a “typical sandbox game, but on a tropical island,” but it would be overlooking a crucial difference: freedom. Now, that also sounds like a synonym for “sandbox” but most sandbox games revolve around a huge world that you can explore, and then do stuff when you get to places. ...

Just Cause 2 (Just Cause 2)

21/02/2008

It’s official: tropical islands are the latest must-have environmental accessory this season for over-the-shoulder, free-roaming third-person carnage. Just Cause 2 is the sequel to the enjoyable first GTA-inspired game, that saw Latino action hero Rico Rodriguez causing mayhem on a South American island, and is part of a trend that is seeing the tropical paradise setting in everything from the seminal Far Cry, through Crysis, Dead Island ...