Tales of Vesperia is everything you’d expect from a Japanese role-playing game: sprawling dungeons, monster encounters and stuff about saving the world. It’s also everything you’d expect from a Tales game: epic story, angsty anime characters and drop-in, drop-out co-op. But this isn’t your granddaddy’s Tales of Symphonia with its namby-pamby plotlines and romantic relationship system; this is the Tales series all grown up and in living color.
Gamers of a certain age – like yours truly - spent many lost nights playing marathon sessions of Tecmo Super Bowl back in the early 90’s. The concept of skipping class, a date with your girlfriend, and pretty much anything else to throw down against your buddy on an NES gridiron was not only reasonable, it was expected...
The first Turtles game hit Live back in 2007 and became one of the biggest sellers on the Marketplace. It was, of course, rubbish. Ubisoft are gambling on the same nostalgia-fuelled sales for their 3D remake of its sequel, Turtles in Time. Which is, of course, also rubbish. Even the critics of the day were guarded in their praise for the Turtles games.
Balance is a delicate thing, so easily lost. Tekken is a series that thrives on it – on striking a balance between fulfilling its remit as the ‘accessible’ 3D fighting game (button-mashing will get you further here than in most fighters) and offering a system substantial and even enough to allow the hardcore fans to battle at a competitive level.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 marks the triumphant return of tag-team, two-on-two action to the famed 3D fighting franchise. With an awesome online experience and great presentation, this Tekken's sure to impress...
How long have we been waiting for a decent Terminator game? How many times have we been disappointed? When we first heard that GRIN – the guys behind the PC versions of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – were on board for the movie spin-off game, we had extremely high hopes of commanding a rag-tag bunch of resistance fighters through a post apocalyptic Los Angeles.
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