It's every teenager's dream - you and three of your friends are left alone in the house, nay, alone in the neighborhood with nary an authority figure in sight. You've got free reign, no one to tell you what to do, and you're feelin' fine. Sounds pretty sweet, until the monsters show up. Insane, undead monsters. Then you and your friends are forced to run around all crazy, fending off the demon hordes with whatever you can get your hands on, trying to figure out just what the hell is going on.
Much like the Winning Eleven series, there are two ways to play Virtua Fighter games. Theres the “casual” post-bar, fight-it-out-with-a-friend kind of way, and then theres the slavish, almost scientific approach - fueled by the sort of devotion thats made the series so hugely popular in Japanese arcades.
For those who prefer option one, Virtua Fighter 5 wont disappoint. On the surface, its definitely a next-gen game, with hyper-detailed looks not so different from the stunning
Flying in the drawn, unshaven face of Second World War videogame tradition, which states “war games shall be epic, gritty, a bit like that movie about Ryan, but above all must feature the Allies giving Jerry a good thrashing,” Brothers In Arms Hells Highway will center instead on one of the most dispiriting defeats suffered by the Allies.
Playing as both original BIA hero Matt Baker and Earned In Blood star Joe Hartsock, youll be dumped into a fateful campaign that saw the US 101st
Anyone who remembers the Dreamcast knows Virtua Tennis is money. If you never played it all those years ago, you're in for a really nice surprise. Unless you're a fan of the sport, tennis games tend to lack that special something that keeps you coming back for more. Virtua Tennis has it. The control is smooth and simple, the graphics are crisp and easy on the eyes, and - now that it's coming to the Xbox 360 - online play is firmly in place.
PS3 owners get motion-sensitive Sixaxis control, but
In a year brimming with upcoming single-player role-playing game releases, Two Worlds hopes to make its mark with decisions. And not curly-or-regular-fries type decisions. These are world-changing, game-altering decisions.
Like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Gothic 3, Two Worlds will be a massive, do-what-you-want kind of game. And its up to you whether to work for good or revel in being a jerk. According to developer Reality Pump Studios, any significant action in Two Worlds will have
Not content with the tradition of making all games based on a movie suck hard, the good folks at Buena Vista Games have their work cut out for them. Luckily, their latest offering, Meet the Robinsons - inspired by the Disney CG film of the same name - is shaping up to be one of the lucky few to break the mold. Buena Vista is determined to stray from the plot of the film, in which dorky, yet tragically orphaned Lewis searches for memories of his mother... and is subsequently kidnapped and sucked
Ditching the role-playing elements of the original game for straight up action, Shadowrun has been completely overhauled for its debut on Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. You wont find a densely woven story or complex character development here; rather, action is the name of the game in this reincarnation of the series. In fact, Shadowrun skimps on solo play and goes for multiplayer gold with online gameplay between Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. The lack of a substantial single player experience could
As job interviews go, itll be short and relatively painless. Its just you, a disinterested man named Haskill, a bare room, a desk and a chair. After such an imposing entranceway, surrounded by otherworldly vegetation thats leeched through its tableau of linked screaming faces into the lands of Cyrodiil, you were perhaps expecting something a little more grandiose within. Then, as the interview concludes, the dull, featureless walls melt away into a cloud of butterflies. And then it happens:
Zombies! Monsters! Horrible crawly things made of spine and fecal matter that burrow into your skin! That's what you think of when you think Alone In The Dark. Isn't it? Yep, us too. So with the fifth installment of the series entering the third and final year of production, we packed our bags, soiled our pants (just to get the inevitable over and done with), and hopped to Eden Games' offices in Lyon, France to get an exclusive update on this survival horror classic.
So, the first thing we
John Woo may have made some recent big-screen stinkers (Windtalkers and Paycheck anyone?), but Stranglehold looks like a spectacular return to form - even roping in Chow Yun Fat to reprise his role as Inspector Tequila from cult movie Hard Boiled. Theres little to the game other than blasting enemies in the most inventive ways you can think of, and it just so happens that you get to look amazingly cool while doing so. We can live with
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