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Saboteur (Saboteur)

May 22, 2007

Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s... What do you mean youve been there before? Many, many times? And you could walk down every rue and plaza blindfolded, the amount of times youve liberated the city from the Germans? Okay, we admit that our first reaction was exasperation on discovering that our pals at developer Pandemic were at work on yet another 360 WWII title - but luckily they also realize that theres a lot of competition out there, which is why Saboteur has been packed ...

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel - hands-on (Sacred 2: Fallen Angel)

Aug 19, 2008

Although well-received by critics, the first Sacred was much bigger in Europe than in the US and UK. It had a robust and entertaining combat system, which only rarely succumbed to the fatigue of repetition that the genre is known for. ...

Saints Row 2 – hands-on preview (Saints Row 2)

Aug 5, 2008

When talking about Saints Row 2, it’s impossible not to immediately acknowledge the hulking beast that is GTA IV. The Saints Row series is forever doomed to live in the shadow of one of gaming’s hugest franchises, and has so far come up short in its attempts to overthrow the king. ...

Saints Row 2 - hands-on (Saints Row 2)

Apr 4, 2008

Saints Row 2 is not pretty, it is not refined, and it is not realistic. "We're going for a very over-the-top feel," commented James Tsai, the game's lead designer, as we chatted with him at THQ's yearly preview event.

The game is very over-the-top, both in gameplay and story, the latter of which has been criticized as an exercise in tired racial stereotypes and naive views of "street life." James disagrees. "It's about having fun. The ...

Saints Row 2: The best character customisation ever? (Saints Row 2)

Mar 4, 2008

Saints Row 2 looks set to have the best character creation option we've ever seen. Find out just how deep it goes and get a fresh eyeful of GTA-alike screens here

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Saints Row 2 (Saints Row 2)

Jan 25, 2008

The original Saints Row was perhaps the most successful Grand Theft Auto copycat to date, and its sequel is promising to up the ante with a series of tweaks to the winning crime sim formula. Unsurprisingly, gang warfare is still the order of the day as you guide your chosen gangbanger through an expanded version of Stillwater City. But while the games themes remain unchanged there is talk of a darker storyline that picks up some years on from the explosive final act of the first game - ...

SBK-08 - first look (SBK-08)

Apr 23, 2008

Regardless of whether you had any affinity for motorbike games, there was no denying SBK-07 was a bit on the hard side. There were options aplenty to mess about with so that there were umpteen degrees of slavish simulation, but there were a couple of notable problems which prevented the game from surging to the front of the two-wheeled racer pack.

Firstly, there wasn’t a whole lot of eye candy on offer - aside from the umbrella ...

Sega Golf Club - hands-on (Sega Golf Club)

Sep 23, 2006

There were more golf games at TGS than there were train driving simulators - what is the world coming to, you rightly ask? Still, there was plenty of variety on the fairway. The highlights were Tecmo's Super Swing Golf for the Wii (it really is super), Sony's Everybody's Golf 5 for the PS3, and this - Sega Golf Club - also for Sony's $600 beast. Sega Golf Club looks a bit like an arcade game from late 2004 - that's because it is. But don't let that put you off. From what we've played of it, ...

Sega Rally Revo - hands on (Sega Rally Revo)

Jun 21, 2007

For fans of Segas flagship racing series, the following sentence will come as a big relief. The new Sega Rally game feels like a Sega Rally game. We know because weve played it for hours, racing on four different tracks at Sega Racing Studio in Birmingham on both PS3 and Xbox 360. If we sound surprised, or at least relieved, its because up until now we had only been shown what was basically a tech demo of six cars racing around a pretty, but featureless track. It looked alright, but not ...

Sega Rally Revo (Sega Rally Revo)

May 11, 2007

Dont get us wrong; we love MotorStorm. But underneath its glossy canyons and impressive mud physics lies a one-track mind (har har). Those looking for a little more depth in their racer need wait until September when Sega Rally Revo will be unleashed to the masses. How does it stack up? Read on, gearheads. Attack deformation The first lap through a course is the easiest. You're presented with flawless, untouched mud and slide across it with relative ease. But then it's time for the second lap. ...

Sega Rally Revo (Sega Rally Revo)

May 10, 2007

Not everything gets better with age. Take, for example, that one friend who still somehow thinks its hilarious to drop Napoleon Dynamite quotes in everyday conversation. That fondness for mindless repetition means he's probably going to suck at Sega Rally Revo, a racing game where a path through a particular turn that works great at the beginning of a race could easily spell your undoing by the final lap. This is all thanks to the games most interesting feature: Fully deformable tracks. As ...

Sega Rally Revo - first look (Sega Rally Revo)

Apr 16, 2007

MotorStorm had mud. Lots of it. Mud that squelched when you drove on it and glistened in the sun when you scrubbed away its dry top layer. Well, Sega Rally can beat that. The Sega Rally we saw running on Xbox 360 in London recently has real mud in it. It isn't just a graphical trick - the new Sega Rally streams mud directly off the disc and fills your TV up with it. It's Liquid Crystal Dirt and you'll be seeing a lot more of this technology as Sega licenses it to other developers in the near ...

Sega Rally Revo makes mud beautiful (Sega Rally Revo)

Mar 13, 2007

If you're a fan of splashing cars sideways through thick mud then you should be keeping an eye on this beast. These five new screens (hit the Images tab above for the rest), which Sega stresses are in-game, demonstrate some impressive detail in both the cars and the surrounding vegetation, and a whole lot of mud ...

On the road with Sega Rally (Sega Rally Revo)

Jun 22, 2006

Saturday 13 May 2006 Sega Rally's arcade dirt-racing action has always been one of Sega's strongest franchises, and now it's heading to the land of next-gen technology. We caught up with Sega for a backstage showcase of the game's incredible track-deforming features. There's no next-gen horsepower spared here. We saw how the tyres on your car are modelled right down to the grooves in the rubber, which, depending on the type of tyre you're using, will cut into the track in a different way. And ...

Sega Rally on track (Sega Rally Revo)

May 15, 2006

Sega Rally's arcade dirt-racing action has always been one of Sega's strongest franchises, and now it's heading to the land of next-gen technology. We caught up with Sega at E3 last week for a backstage showcase of PS3 monster Sega Rally Revo's incredible track-deforming features. There's no next-gen horsepower spared here. We saw how the tires on your car are modeled right down to the grooves in the rubber, which, depending on the type of tire you're using, will cut into the track in a ...

Sega Superstars Tennis (Sega Superstars Tennis)

Feb 7, 2008

Question: What’s better than Virtua Tennis 3? Answer: Virtua Tennis 4. What else is better than Virtua Tennis 3? Sega Superstars Tennis - which replaces Tim Henman’s potato-faced grin with Ulala licking her lips at you before hitting the ball in a five-shaped star (Space Channel 5, get it?) while glittery pink stars explode and aliens dance everywhere. This is tennis gone mad.The concept is Sega-like in its simplicity. Take a ...

Shaun White Snowboarding (Shaun White Snowboarding)

Jul 21, 2008

Ever since EA’s great SSX series swanned off On Tour back in ‘05, then maybe experimented with a spliff or two and ended up losing the plot somewhat, we’ve been bereft of any decent ‘boarding sims. After all, 360 launch title Amped 3 might have been genuinely rib-tickling in the humour department, but as a recreation of the adrenaline-pumped, massively baggy-pantsed sport it left a lot to be desired. ...

Civilization Revolution - second impressions (Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution)

May 23, 2008

There are several reasons that turn-based strategy games haven't really ever caught on for non-PC gamers, and Civilization Revolution is making sure it addresses as many of them that it can. It's the first console only Civilization, so the controls are a huge focus for the design team. Also, the aversion to taking turns that many Halo, Gears of War and CoD 4 console players have is being considered carefully. Overall, the game has a new ...

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution - hands-on (Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution)

Mar 18, 2008

Civilization Revolution condenses human history into a strategy game with 16 civilizations rapidly developing through mud-and-sticks beginnings to space-faring world domination. An average game can encompass human history in about four hours. You’ll build cities, explore the world with military units, forge alliances and kick the butts of various cultures. The game can be won by destroying all the other civilizations, achieving cultural ...

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution)

Dec 6, 2007

Dec 6, 2007 Yeah, console gamers are total morons… wait, no were not! So why do the best PC games invariably receive a total dumbing-down in their transition to the box sitting by your TV? Battlefield - complicated on the PC; dumb as a bag of dead clowns on 360. Far Cry - smart and stealthy on the PC; run-and-gun-and-eventually-not-much-fun on 360. As much as developer Firaxis would like you to think of their Civilization port as ‘streamlined, the truth is that the game we played ...