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Teen Titans (Teen Titans)

10/03/2006

"Back in my day,” say the oldest of the old-school gamers, “all we had was the local arcade, and we loved it! We happily dropped 25 cents a game to get our asses handed to us." Those days of traveling places to play games are gone, but a property from about the same by-gone era, the recently revived Teen Titans comic book franchise, will try to bring the arcade-style button-masher glory days back. Just because it's an old idea, it isn't necessarily a bad one. In Teen Titans, you ...

Thief: Deadly Shadows (Thief: Deadly Shadows)

8/06/2004

To find out more about Thief: Deadly Shadows, The title's lying. The shadows aren't deadly. In Thief, the shadows are your friends. Stay there, and predate upon the weak and... oh, waitasec. They mean you're deadly in the shadows. Problem solved. Start again.In a moment of beautiful convergence, the first Thief appeared at the same time as the original Metal Gear Solid. Except it was even more stealthy and has been just as influential. Splinter Cell? Just Thief with tech stuff minus the ...

Thrillville (Thrillville)

6/11/2006

Ever wanted to make your own amusement park? Yeah, neither have we. One only has to imagine all of the red tape, legalese, investment concerns, zoning issues, contract disputes, liability claims, piles of vomit everywhere... you might be dead before you get around to designing your first ...

Thrillville - updated impressions (Thrillville)

26/09/2006

There's really only one problem with monster-selling games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Theme Park: they're no fun. Somehow, these micro-management games found a way to strip all the amusement out of amusement parks. Can Thrillville change it all? The simpler setup feels like a good start: You're the young relative of a theme park tycoon and he's thrilled that you're coming on board to help him run the place (and stop Globo-Joy from taking it over). You've got carte blanche to improve ...

Thrillville - impressions (Thrillville)

8/08/2006

Theme-park simulators are nothing new, but Thrillville might be the first to mix roller-coaster building with third-person exploration, interactive conversations, first-person shooting and nearly every other conceivable gameplay style to date. Casting players as a kid who inherits a chain of crappy theme parks from a rich uncle, Thrillville tasks you with cleaning up your new playgrounds and building badass attractions to draw in guests. So, OK, that part is old hat. But once the guests are ...

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

26/07/2006

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 Golf 2005 (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005)

21/07/2004

After the inevitable humiliation of 'Tiger' Timmy Henman's quarter-final thumping at Wimbledon, it's time to turn our attention back to the original Tiger, golf supremo Mr Woods himself. And while his real-life form continues to slump quicker than the Iraqi tourism industry, his gaming self goes from strength to strength.The main thrust of this year's game is an all-new, tougher Tiger experience, courtesy of EA's latest innovation, Tour Mode. Unlocked after you've proved yourself with a few ...

TimeSplitters Future Perfect (Time Splitters: Future Perfect)

21/01/2005

TimeSplitters 2 was a) hard b) easy to hate and c) brilliant. Some folk resented being shot to ribbons for split-second forays into no-mans-land, while others adored the pixel perfect targeting and softly, softly approach. Hit/Miss. Love/Hate. Retry/Fail. While PSM2 Staff Writer Andy thought the characters were "the work of genius", others complained that they were "too French" and "wearing hateful flares". So how does Future Perfect - now under the supervision of Electronic ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hands-on (TMNT)

26/01/2007

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 ...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter)

27/04/2006

Ghost Recon games obsess over reproducing reality, so graphics and animation play a pivotal role. In the past, only PC gamers got to gloat about fresh lighting and molecular detail ... but times have changed. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter shotguns realism directly into your retinas. The supple, reactive shadows play across the streets of Mexico City with dazzling accuracy while you're fed a constant diet of military authorities barking critical orders and hailstorms of bullets and ...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Hands-On (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter)

14/03/2006

When you're a member of the United States' premiere fighting force, life is a constant barrage of other people's problems. Sometimes, you're just minding your own business, protecting the head of a foreign government like you're supposed to, when some chump with a rocket launcher comes along and frags your Blackhawk. Okay, so maybe that exact example doesn't happen in the game, but we don't want to spoil the plot for you. The point is, judging from our hands-on time with the single-player ...

Tomb Raider Legend (Tomb Raider Legend)

31/03/2006

We've talked plenty about Tomb Raider Legend in previous articles, but what we haven't done is given you a level-by-level description of it - until now. We'll keep the spoilers and the small talk to a minimum, though we will warn you that Eidos has made us promise not to show you every level yet, so the screens don't always match the levels. Also, we do reveal a few story details here, so consider yourself spoiler alerted. Clear? Okay. Grab your gear. The first level is appropriately swaddled ...

Tomb Raider: Legend (Tomb Raider Legend)

7/03/2006

Oh Lara Croft ... so hot, so brilliant, so starring in awful games for so long. The original Tomb Raider was an opus of Indiana Jones-style adventuring, puzzle-solving, dual-pistol wielding, and tank-top-staring that put Ms. Croft and the PlayStation on the map. But after Tomb Raider III, things got rough for our favorite feminine plaything. Cliches began to snake in, the baddies began to smack of caricature, while attempts at innovation had the distinct reek of gimmick. The nadir came with ...

E3 06: Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Tony Hawk's Project 8)

11/05/2006

For Tony Hawk's Project 8, the latest game in the popular skateboarding franchise, the creators are starting over - almost everything about this skate action game is being created fresh to take advantage of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is expected to ship this ...