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Team Fortress 2 - hands-on (Team Fortress 2)

May 18, 2007

The first surprise, playing Team Fortress 2, is how incredibly bloody it is. Its fantastically good fun, too, but you can pretty much see that just from looking at it. The explosive gore, bony hunks of shredded men and severed heads are more of a shock among these beaming cartoon smiles, but you soon realize theyre entirely necessary. In TF2, things do what they look like they should do. A direct hit from a smoke-belching rocket looks like it ought to rip someone apart, so it does. But ...

Team Fortress 2 - hands-on (Team Fortress 2)

Apr 6, 2007

For fans of the original game there's an eerie sense of déjà vu when playing the 2Fort map in Team Fortress 2. Even if you'd already been told it was a remade version of the popular Team Fortress Classic map, or realized simply by looking at the map's name, its layout already exists as a semi-familiar strategy map in the back of your mind. There's that central bridge across the moat, treacherous to cross and half-concealing the alternate entrance to the enemy base. There are the ...

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - PS3 Network)

Feb 6, 2007

Since last years E3 demo, showing hyper-detailed fighters and some fearsome moves, we haven't heard a lot about Tekkens PS3 incarnation. Generally, the way of Tekken games is that they disappear for a bit, only to resurface in the arcades before hitting the PlayStation proper. This is cutting it close, though - a release date for early 2008 may have been slated, but this marks our first major post-E3 ...

Tekken 6 (Tekken 6)

Mar 28, 2007

While we're all happy to see that the awesome Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection on PS3 is now available to download - it's merely the appetizer to Tekken 6's main course of supercharged fighting. Two brand new characters are included, with even more promised to follow to make up the biggest roster the series has ever seen. Zafina is a sexy flexible fighter whose style is best described as spider-like. Leo is German, effeminate-looking and designed to be easy for both Tekken novices and hardcore pros ...

They - hands-on (They)

Apr 28, 2008

There’s been a bit of buzz about Metropolis Software’s latest project in development, They. The first-person shooter places you in the heart of London in the near future and pits you against an army of invading robots. They’s canned premise sounds painfully generic at first, but the title has some interesting twists in store for those looking for a good reason to pick up a gun and fight.

Right off the bat, They breaks ...

Tiberium (Tiberium)

Apr 2, 2008

Forget global warming - the greatest threat to planet Earth and the survival of mankind is a green radioactive extraterrestrial crystal that is spreading like a cancer across the entire surface of the globe. Or maybe Deal or No Deal.

“Tiberium is the catalyst for everything, it’s our One Ring, our Matrix, our Force, and that’s why it’s the name,” says executive producer Christopher Plum ...

Tiberium - first look (Tiberium)

Jan 29, 2008

Tiberium. In the Command & Conquer Tiberium universe its both a boon to mankind and an immediate threat to its very existence. Although the mysterious alien crystal helped advance technology and can provide enough energy to fuel an empire, it also infects everything it touches and threatens to engulf the entire planet in a layer of sickly green shards. But its difficult to really appreciate the irony of humanitys dependence on the very thing that could destroy it when youre poking a tiny ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07)

Jul 26, 2006

For many seasons, Tiger Woods PGA Tour has relied on an arcade-like feel that gave any player with functional thumbs a -15 handicap. Good news though - from what we saw at Electronic Arts' Summer Showcase, Tiger has shed his quirky strokes and come out swinging the hammer with a more simulation-based method of play. The control scheme has been simplified, taking what worked in the past and applying more realistic effects to make the whole experience come alive. In 07, the entire swing runs off ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - hands-on (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08)

Jul 27, 2007

Confidence. On Sundays, on the 18th green, staring down a birdie putt for the win, Tiger Woods has it. Sergio Garcia? Not so much. After Garcia missed a putt for the win at the 2007 British Open, he lost the ensuing playoff to Irishman Padraig Harrington, and left any confidence he had in a deep bunker somewhere on the back nine at Carnoustie. As confidence plays such an important role in the game of golf, it's about time EA included it in its upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour game. And so it ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 - First look (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09)

May 12, 2008

The problem with Tiger Woods is that each new update ends up attempting to tweak a game that was pretty much perfect from the beginning. Fortunately, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, that's not the case. The finely-balanced and intuitive swing system is left untouched, and EA have focused on tinkering with something more interesting: You ...

Time Crisis 4 (Time Crisis 4)

Jul 30, 2007

Games have changed a hell of a lot in the last 10 years, but the Time Crisis series has steadfastly refused to grow up. While everyone else was jumping on the mature bandwagon, pumping out Emo music-backed introspective monologues about the state of the world, Time Crisis was content to deliver bubblegum action, packing some serious soft ...

Time Crisis 4 - first look (Time Crisis 4)

Jun 15, 2007

You know, it doesn't matter how visceral the gore is or how realistic the violence looks onscreen - a shooter doesn't feel real when you're holding a boomerang-shaped controller or tapping away at a PC keyboard. That's why arcade light gun games will always have a place in our hearts, and that's why Time Crisis 4 has our adrenaline blasting up through our guts and spilling out our noses. No, wait - that's ketchup. That doesnt make ...

TimeShift (TimeShift)

Oct 10, 2007

Oct 10, 2007 His head comes apart in a haze of red and gore, his knees crumple and hes dead. Then the voodoo happens: his collapsed legs unfold in an impossible fashion, his body straightens and the gobs of matter and the red mist reform into a head. Theres something disquieting about watching someones head reforming in front of you. TimeShift is a first-person shooter where the passage of time is under your control. From within your timesuit you can slow, stop and reverse the temporal flow, ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hands-on (TMNT)

Jan 26, 2007

The Turtles are back, but Vanilla Ice isn't. That's probably for the best, to be honest. Anyway, to complement the new CGI-heavy Turtles film that's out this year, Ubisoft is resurrecting the pizza-eating dudes. Apparently the new film is a bit darker and edgier than previous Turtles fare (harking back to the original comics and role-playing game) and the game will reflect that. While we've yet to see just how "dark" and "edgy" this'll be, the way the game plays seems, so far, to be a little ...

TNA Impact! - updated hands on (TNA Impact!)

Apr 18, 2008

You’d be forgiven for taking one look at TNA Impact and thinking, “It’s wrestling. How different could it be from any other wrestling game?” After all, it is wrestling, and it is very similar in many ways to other grappling games - specifically THQ’s long-running WWE franchises. However, after spending some time with the latest version of the game in our hands, we discovered quite a bit more difference ...

TNA Impact - hands-on (TNA Impact!)

Oct 16, 2007

Oct 16, 2007 Lets face it, the WWE is essentially the evil empire of wrestling. Mr. McMahon and his genetic superfreaks will always stand atop the heap of sports entertainment destroying all comers like they did WCW and ECW. With an increasingly stale product and THQs SmackDown! franchise delivering the same thing year in and out, wrasslin fans need a savior. Start bracing for Impact - literally - because Midway is developing TNA Impact for the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, based off the ...

Tom Clancy's EndWar (Tom Clancy's EndWar)

Jan 17, 2008

Tom Clancy's EndWar is shaping up to be a spectacle of epic proportions. Harcore combat, glittering graphics and intense tactical gameplay will satisfy the most obsessed Tom Clancy fan; even if the voice command does feel a little too intense. Here, we take a look at the nuts and bolts of combat that'll bring World War III to your 360 or PS3 in all its vivid, visceral glory. Actual on-field conflict largely boils down to a massive brawl for possession of territory. Each of EndWars forty (!) ...

Tom Clancy's EndWar (Tom Clancy's EndWar)

Dec 13, 2007

Dec 13, 2007 Tom Clancys EndWar is an RTS set in a near-future World War III scenario in which a nuclear exchange in the Middle East has decimated the worlds oil supply. Michael De Plater, Creative Director for Ubisofts Shanghai studio, was on hand to walk us through the gameplay mechanics and mercilessly crush us into radioactive dust a one-on-one match. At its core, EndWar employs a rock-paper-scissors model for conflict resolution much like other RTS games. Each map is a race to control an ...

Tom Clancy's EndWar (Tom Clancy's EndWar)

Oct 3, 2007

Oct 3, 2007 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter meets Commander & Conquer is the best way to describe this near-future fusion of real-time strategy and third-person squad-shooter. Set in the thick of World War III in the year 2020, it sees the superpowers of the US, Europe and Russia busting out all their hi-tech hardware and boys' toys. Ubisoft has streamlined fussier resource management aspects and created a full 3D world instead of the typical top-down 2D view. The ground-level camera places ...

Enter World War III (Tom Clancy's EndWar)

May 23, 2007

Desktop generals have been treated to some spectacular new RTS games recently. But despite the successes of Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 3, we havent seen anything that will really push the strategic warfare genre forward - past bigger maps, larger numbers of units, and better visuals - until now. Enter Tom Clancys EndWar, Ubisofts latest stab at injecting something new into the diet of micromanagers. “Its ‘real-time and its ‘strategy, but its not like a PC ...