PC adventure-game developers usually set their stories against grand, larger-than-life backdrops, and French developer Kheops Studio is certainly no exception. In Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb, the fabled Egyptian temptress doesn’t play a leading role - the game’s protagonist is an apprentice astrologer named Thomas - but you work on her behalf throughout the entire narrative.As a civil war between Cleo and her brother Ptolemy
It’s short, it’s bland, and it’s got all the ingredients to be PC Gamer’s most generic shooter of ’08. Vaguely foreign-sounding enemies! A helicopter boss fight! Boring caves and industrial environments! Unsynchronized dialogue animations that make hardened soldiers seem like pixelated sock puppets!
The Foreign Legion is legendary for its hardcore training and tough regime. You could make them watch Titanic, steal their teddy bears and stub their toes and they wouldn’t even sniffle. Still, FPS Code of Honor is bad enough to have them weeping into their kepi.
In a daring departure from the dusty streets of Generistan, the story is set in the dusty streets of West Africa.
While in reality the Cold War was won by diplomacy and economics, real-time strategy contender Codename Panzers: Cold War has decided that’s boring. Real wars are fought with bullets and dying. Thus, history must be re-written. Basically, this is the Codename series recognising that while we love bloodshed and period dress, we’re bored of World War II.
If you’ve ever played with one of those slide puzzles that you occasionally find in Happy Meals, then Cogs will instantly jump out of the screen and either drag you in or throw you out the window. You see, almost every element is tied to those cheap plastic timewasters, except in glossy, yet somewhat ghostly 3D.
As Colorelli is bundled with an entry-level Wacom graphics tablet, the urge to scribble absolute filth all over its rainbow-coloured world of Euro-accented animals never fades. Which is doubly warped of us because it's actually quite a good kids' game, where you ping-pong from Eurobeast to Eurobeast, performing a handful of variations on a scribbling or colouring theme.
I’ve played plenty of Counter-Strike clones in the past nine years, and none have duplicated the original’s addictive gameplay style, perfected map design, and balanced ballistics. Combat Arms is no exception, even though it visually resembles the four-year-old Counter-Strike: Source. It does have one advantage, however: it’s free.
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