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FaceBreaker (Review)

Sep 4, 2008

When you launch a new product range, your first game/cheese/film/whatever has to embody everything that’s good about the brand. SSX was the perfect launch game for EA BIG because it captured everything the label stood for; that is to say exciting, extreme and over the top. Unfortunately for EA Freestyle, flagship title FaceBreaker couldn’t be a bigger mismatch if it tried. ...

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Review)

Jul 2, 2007

If you were expecting to just get a bland reproduction of the new Fantastic Four movie repackaged into a quick game port, you were wrong. The game takes plot elements from the movie, but also a heavy helping from the comic series, to weave a story chucked full of Fantastic Four nemeses. Everyone from the Skrull to Terrax to, dum, dum, dummmm: the Silver Surfer makes an appearance. But instead of feeling like a star-packed, universe encompassing rumble, it just feels like more stuff for The ...

Fatal Inertia EX - PS3 Network (Review)

Jun 3, 2008

Launch title? It was meant to be, yes. But now Fatal Inertia is finally here, albeit as a PS Store release. And comparisons with WipEout are inevitable. Both are futuristic racers with anti-gravity craft and magnetic weaponry, but, well… one’s a lot better than the other.

Comparisons aside, there’s an abundance of features to get stuck into. There are four classes of racers, each with their own advantages and ...

FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon (Review)

Apr 24, 2007

F.E.A.R. is hilariously, absurdly violent. It's a shooter set mostly in a single skyscraper block, where genetically modified soldiers and psychic monsters have invaded a biotech firm. And you've got it made, because you're just as modified as the men you face. At any moment, you can slow down time, duck behind a pillar, peep out and take away a soldier's legs with a single blast from the shotgun. "Holy shit, he's flanking us," they scream, as you empty clip after clip into their faces, leaving ...

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli (Review)

Aug 26, 2008

For all its efforts to simulate every aspect of throwing a Ferrari around a track, it seems that a few thrills and some sense of danger has gone. ...

FIFA 08 (Review)

Oct 17, 2007

Oct 17, 2007 Purists will usually support Winning Eleven, but as Chelsea has proved in the last few years you dont need to play the prettiest soccer to get results. Sometimes youve got to maximize your strengths and hope they compensate for the weaker areas of your game; the FIFA brand is becoming a master of this tactic. By now, everyone knows FIFA boasts enough licensing muscle to pull in hundreds of factually accurate teams, right down to the number of stripes on a pair of socks, as well ...

FIFA Soccer 09 (Review)

Oct 3, 2008

To put it simply in three words: this is ace. FIFA 09 plays a blinder of a game and we are absolutely loving it ...

FIFA Street 3 (Review)

Feb 19, 2008

FIFA Street is absurd, but not entirely unrealistic. For all its fancy flicks, deft touches and brilliant goals from impossible angles, it’s not that different from the football you think you’re playing while down the park with mates. Best of all, thanks to revised gameplay and new looks, FIFA Street 3 lets you live out your Kaka-esque dreams without the toe-curling urban ‘vibez’ - and dire MC Harvey commentary - of the ...

Fight Night Round 3 (Review)

Dec 5, 2006

When it hit the Xbox 360 back in February, Fight Night Round 3 was the most impressive-looking game most people had ever seen. The boxers verged on photorealistic, and the knockouts - which featured slow-motion hits to faces that rippled and sprayed blood-tinged spit - were disgustingly awesome. It was, in short, a hard act to follow, especially for a console that claims to be $200 better than the 360. Maybe it's the extra 10 months that went into the game's development, or maybe the PS3 ...

flOw - PS3 Network (Review)

Feb 20, 2007

We would say that flOw makes a good case for the "video games as art" discussion, but it's tough to quantify it as a game to begin with. Originally an MFA thesis by USC School of Cinematic Arts game design graduate Jenova Chen, flOw has appropriately evolved from a simple, accessible design philosophy into a popular Flash title, and has now made its way onto Sony's Playstation Store as a downloadable title. It has been retooled and reworked to add depth and take advantage of the PS3's 1080p, ...

Folklore (Review)

Oct 4, 2007

Oct 4, 2007 Given that the Playstation 2 was once the mighty home to all things RPG, the PS3 is going through a bit of a dry spell. But we understand, the system's still in its salad days and probably doesn't want to embarrass itself by porting something unworthy of it's $600 prowess. So is Folklore going to ease the agonizing wait between infinity and a Final Fantasy game? Well the answer is: sorta, kinda, maybe and for the most part, not really. The best thing up Folklore's sleeve is the ...

Formula 1 Championship Edition (Review)

Feb 27, 2007

Apparently, Formula One Championship Edition is the closest youll get to the real thing without being speared through the guts by the nose of a 200mph Ferrari. Formula One, you see, has been dying at an inversely proportional rate to the success of one Michael Schumacher - the more he won, the more people got bored and stopped watching. So in order to make Championship Edition more exciting than watching the Antiques Roadshow on valium, youll want to head straight over to the options section ...

Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Review)

Dec 15, 2006

Friday 15 December 2006 The old saying "if you don't succeed, try again" must have been the mantra at developer Pseudo Interactive this past year. Heeding the feedback from the first Full Auto on Xbox 360, the PS3-exclusive follow-up has improved on its predecessor in every single ridiculously destructive way. An eviscerating visual cacophony, it sports a much wider array of weapons, vehicles, and - most importantly - mission variety. Played at a pace that just about borders on 'Ludicrous ...

Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Review)

Dec 13, 2006

The old axiom "if you don't succeed, try again" must have been the mantra at developer Pseudo Interactive this past year. Heeding the feedback from their first Full Auto on the Xbox 360, the PS3-exclusive follow-up has improved on its predecessor in every single ridiculously destructive way. An eviscerating visual cacophony, it sports a much wider array of weapons, vehicles, and - most importantly - mission variety. Played at a pace that just about borders on Ludicrous Speed, it's a feast for ...