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RACE 07 preview and trailer (RACE 07)

27/07/2007

Friday 27 July 2007 The sequel to last year's decent WTCC game Race is almost upon us, and we've been taking the work-in-progress Alpha version for a quick trip around the block. A few things have changed since last year - there are now 3D spectators at the edge of the track, which the developer admits aren't going to win any awards under scrutiny, but they help the atmosphere a little. There's also a helmet cam, which lets you see through the eyes of your driver, and remove tear-off strips ...

GRID (Race Driver: GRID)

2/04/2008

Where once we played a TOCA game which covered pretty much every kind of racing discipline, we now have a svelte and well-buff racer, and it’s left its past behind. “Hey TOCA! How are you?” we said - but it totally blanked us. It only answers to GRID now. It hasn’t gone all supermodel-thin by any means, but latest-gen tech is being tapped to angle for more realistic racing over sheer size, so ...

GRID (Race Driver: GRID)

6/02/2008

Shedding the TOCA name, GRID (known as Race Driver: GRID in Europe) looks to redefine a genre already somewhat redefined by Codemasters’ excellent Colin McRae: DiRT. “The first big change is that this isn’t a TOCA game. We don’t feel the TOCA prefix is relevant any more to the content we’re including and the racing experience we’re aiming to deliver,” explains Ralph Fulton, Codemasters’ chief ...

GRID (Race Driver: GRID)

2/01/2008

Jan 2, 2008 Codemasters are readying GRID (known as Race Driver: GRID in Europe) for summer ‘08 release - but the next iteration of the TOCA series has already steered into controversy. Hardcore fans are upset at the series new street racing elements, but - dont worry - the realistic handling that TOCA is synonymous with remains. While youll still get to bomb around fully-licensed tracks like Silverstone, youll also be traveling the globe to race over three continents. So one minute you ...

RAGE (RAGE)

16/11/2009

The world is a post-apocalyptic dustbowl populated by mutants and proud retro-fitted scavengers with fast, growling cars, deadly makeshift crossbows and upturned woks for hats. You, the unwitting outsider, emerging prematurely from your Armageddon-proof panic room, find you’re somehow better at surviving in this hostile environment than those who’ve been living in it their whole lives. ...

Rage (RAGE)

21/08/2009

Surviving a near extinction level event in an ‘Ark’, you are thawed out by an untimely earthquake to find you’ve been woken too early, and the world is a wasteland populated by mutants, scavengers, and tailors who used to make clothes for Judge Dredd’s Cursed Earth storyline. ...

Rage (RAGE)

26/11/2008

Beautiful game engines for less than beautiful beasts roaming beautifully grimy corridors. From their birth in 1992, this has been the id way. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake: grim, grimmer, grimmest. However, if up until now their artistic direction was based solely on Event Horizon, then Rage marks an influx of new DVDs onto the id film shelf. ...

Rage (RAGE)

26/09/2008

This is id Software’s first properly new game since 1996. Just think about that. Various versions of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein have marched from id’s Texas offices over the past 12 years, yet the team’s creative muscles haven’t flexed on anything fresh for more than a decade. ...

Maximum PC gets down with Carmack (RAGE)

23/07/2008

Our friends down the hall at [Maximum PC] had an opportunity to speak with id co-founder John Carmack after the big EA press conference yesterday (where id surprisingly announced a partnership with EA to publish Rage). They grilled the legendary game developer (and part-time rocket scientist) about id's post-apocalyptic shooter, the state of gaming graphics, and what his plans are after id Tech 5. Rage looks be a drastic ...

Rainbow Six: Lockdown (Rainbow Six Lockdown)

25/02/2006

The grizzled, realistic military shooter Rainbow Six first dropped into counter-terrorist action in 1998 against a backdrop of arcadey, sci-fi shooters like Unreal Tournament and Quake. Rainbow and its two sequels were swiftly dubbed "thinking man's shooters" due to mature presentation and hyper-tactical gameplay. Rainbow Six: Lockdown's previous installment, Rainbow Six: 3, wasn't just hard; at some points it was simply an exercise in masochism. But, finally threading the needle and beating ...

Ratatouille - first look (Ratatouille)

2/03/2007

If Ratatouille weren't based on a film, its story - about a rat named Remy who wants to become a world-class French chef - would probably elevate it to weird-work-of-genius status. As it is, this platform-hopping adventure is relegated to the realm of baby games, although that doesn't mean it should be ...

Red Faction: Guerilla (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

7/05/2009

Red Faction: Guerrilla, a free-roaming romp across the fully destructible surface of Mars, is shaping up as one of the surprise hits of 2009, not to mention a minor technical triumph. ...

Red Faction: Guerrilla - hands-on (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

4/12/2008

Open world, powerful weapons, two-story mechs, and completely destructible environments – these are all things on our wish-list for how to make the ultimate shooter, and they’re also some of the key features in THQ’s upcoming third-person destructathon, Red Faction: Guerrilla. ...

Red Faction: Guerilla - hands on (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

4/04/2008

We’re fresh from our first hands-on time with Red Faction: Guerilla at THQ’s Editors Day. We were fortunate enough to have Dan Cermak, Vice President ad developer Volition, to walk us through a small slice of Red Faction: Guerilla’s open, destructible world. Red Faction: Guerilla is the third game set in the Red Faction universe, 50 years after the events of the first game. Mars has been terraformed, and the Earth Defense Force (savior of the first RF) has become Big Brother. ...

Reservoir Dogs off the leash (Reservoir Dogs)

15/05/2006

"We want to keep you in the Reservoir Dogs experience," says Volatile, the developer of Reservoir Dogs. And it's doing just that by exploring deeper into the events of the Quentin Tarantino hit film. We've been close up to the action, and can report for sure that the game is doing well to echo the flavor and atmosphere. That is, it's swearier than 10 drunken sailors and plenty violent. The demo we were shown gave us an insight into two different levels, and the two separate styles of the game. ...

Ride to Hell (Ride to Hell)

29/01/2009

Take a moment to pity the well-spoken Austrian gentleman showing us Ride to Hell today. In the excitement of debuting his new videogame to the world’s press, he’s gone and hired out a deliciously scuzzy biker bar in Asscrack, California for the event and populated it with real (judging by their odor and keenness on punching game journalists in the arm) bikers. ...

1C Roundup - nine new games previewed (Rig n Roll)

25/04/2007

Russian publisher 1C recently announced plans to launch an attack on the West with a massive collection of new titles. Partnering with Atari, 1C hopes to serve the West's insatiable appetite for games with a wide selection of titles ranging from fresh first-person shooters to big rig truck simulators and medieval warfare titles. Read on for our impressions on their nine new titles and follow the links for new screens and trailers. Cryostasis: This first-person shooter places you aboard an ...

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War)

13/04/2006

We're playing Rise & Fall's multiplayer, against one of the programming team. One of the producers is acting as our tactical advisor, explaining the intricacies of this historically inspired real-time strategy game. Rise & Fall 's trick is to let you directly control a "hero" unit, as if it's an action game. You can first order your foot troops and cannon fodder into battle, then press "Q", and zoom down to ground level. Now you can personally run around the skirmish lines with a great big ...

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War)

12/04/2006

By using traditional RTS mechanics and spicing them up with third-person action, Stainless Steel Studios' Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War was definitely one strategy game that stood out from the crowd at the 2005 E3 games show in LA. Our first look at the game piqued our interest and left us eager to explore the hands-on aspect of battle in greater detail, so when the developer dropped by to give us a demonstration we were quick to grab the mouse and get stuck in. While the RTS gameplay is ...

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War)

11/04/2006

We're playing Rise & Fall's multiplayer, against one of the programming team. Aidan - a producer at publisher Midway - is acting as our tactical advisor, explaining the intricacies of this historically inspired strategy game. Rise & Fall's trick is to let you directly control a 'hero' unit, as if it's an action game. You can first order your foot troops and cannon fodder into battle, then press 'Q', and zoom down to ground level. Now you can personally run around the skirmish lines with a ...