All Xbox 360 Previews

Wall-E - hands-on (Wall-E)

Apr 4, 2008

With curious binocular-like eyes and a metallically high-pitched voice, Wall-E stars as an adorable trash-compacter in this summer’s Pixar film of the same name. Plot details are scarce, but from what we can discern, Wall-E is the last surviving trash cleaner on a long-since abandoned Earth. One day, a recon spaceship arrives with the sleek iPod-looking Eve, Wall-E’s romantic interest. When she has to leave, Wall-E hops on board ...

Warhammer: Battle March - first impressions (Warhammer: Battle March)

Apr 16, 2008

Screw futuristic alien armies and lame realistic combat skirmishes. Warhammer: Battle March brings real time strategy back to where it all began: fantasy. Slamming into your Xbox 360 this fall, Battle March enables you to jump straight into beating the crap out of opposing armies, without having to wade through boring resource management. We had a chance to check out an unfinished build of Battle March and came away impressed at what was ...

Warhound (Warhound)

Apr 12, 2007

We can understand even the most gun-hungry gamers heaving a heavy old sigh at the recent announcement of Polish developer Techlands new FPS Warhound. Mostly because itll be hard to find a real stand-out among the roster of genre-standard features the game boasts. Firstly, you play a mercenary, rather than a patriotic soldier - just like Mercenaries 2 and Rogue ...

Wet - hands-on (WET)

Oct 17, 2007

Oct 17, 2007 You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a bit gratuitous. After all, christening a game Wet when its main character is a big breasted, kick-ass female killer called Rubi who packs more weaponry than a Texan household, instantly sets the mind racing towards obvious, lower-region moistness gags and blatantly sexual marketing ploys. But you'd be wrong to be so hasty. You see, rather than being a mere excuse for developer A2M to pack enough polygons into a D-cup to make Lara feel ...

Watch Rubi get WET! (WET)

Aug 21, 2007

Aug 21, 2007 Meet Rubi, the star of WET. She's a problem solver, and if you've got the cash she'll shoot and slice your worries away. Expect Rubi to sport the usual set of skills you'd expect from your everyday action star. Armed with two pistols and a samurai sword, she jumps, slides, wall runs, and slows things down with bullet time. But it's the slick way Rubi moves that sets her apart from other gun star heroes like Lara Croft or Tequila. She moves with style, and blasts away at bad guys ...

Wheelman - hands-on (The Wheelman)

Apr 18, 2008

Vin Diesel is Midway’s second action film icon cum game developer, after John Woo. Vin brought his Hollywood sensibilities to bear on the project and was deeply involved in the design of the game from the beginning. The design team dissected several memorable car chases from movies like Ronin and The Bourne Identity to create the building blocks for Wheelman’s driving experience. The resulting stunts, exlplosions and large-scale ...

The Wheelman (The Wheelman)

Mar 7, 2007

Vin Diesel. Two words that strike fear into the heart of all film-lovers. But when it comes to videogames, the Diesel-meister has a much better rep - a serious gamer, Vinnie (as we like to call him) was heavily involved in the development of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and the result was one of the best games on Xbox. The lisping muscle mans latest project is The Wheelman, and while the movie is bound to be complete crap, the 360 spin-off could well be another winner. A ...

Wing Commander Arena - hands-on (Wing Commander Arena - Xbox Live Arcade)

May 11, 2007

Are you an old-school Wing Commander fan? Does mention of the Terran Confederation, the Kilrathi and Colonel Blair bring a nostalgic smile to your face? And when you heard about the upcoming Wing Commander Arena for Xbox Live Arcade, were you ecstatic to know one of your favorite franchises was coming back? If so, you might want to temper your expectations. There are no new stories to be told and no familiar characters to revisit in this entry... heck, from what we saw, there are no stories or ...

Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 hands-on (Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007)

Jul 18, 2006

The next gauntlet to be thrown in the international conflagration known as the Videogame Soccer Wars is Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (also termed Longest-Titled Sports Game Ever ). Fans of the series can expect more of the sublime control and strategic options that they know and love, with some new additions sure to please the most demanding Beautiful Game enthusiasts. Many longtime Winning Eleven gamers will wonder what could be done to make a great footy game somehow better. A ...

Wolfenstein (Wolfenstein)

Aug 11, 2008

Let’s get the important, fundamental, epoch-defining questions out of the way first. On the line are Kevin Cloud, from id Software, and Eric Biessman from Raven. Kevin is executive producer at id, the boss of all. Eric leads the programmers and artists at Raven responsible for bringing their occult take on World War II to life. ...

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (World in Conflict: Soviet Assault)

May 12, 2008

Say the words ‘real-time strategy’ to your average console gamer and he’ll yawn his jaw off. To many, playing an RTS invokes images of tedious resource gathering, tunneling through hefty manuals, building bases and nudging tiny tanks through foggy fields. But World in Conflict wants to change all that. It’s as tense and tactical as the beardiest PC strategy games but with the immediacy of an FPS, blending thoughtful ...

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (World in Conflict: Soviet Assault)

Apr 14, 2008

Porting the real-time strategy genre to consoles has always produced mixed results. Even the latest controllers, with their ample number of buttons, can't fully mimic the speed and simplicity of a mouse and keyboard. Even HDTVs, with their ultra sharp pictures, can't fully distinguish tiny units unless the gamer is leaning forward and squinting painfully.

Yet developers, especially during this generation, keep trying. World in Conflict ...

E3 06: World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions)

May 12, 2006

Activision's World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions picks up where last year's game left off - namely, at the poker table. This year, the gambling sim features a story mode, where you become the card-playing protege of bearded card shark Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, slowly building up your reputation and winning record to the point where you get invited to the exclusive, titular tournament. You'll find yourself among some famous company, including professional players like ...

Wrestling with choices (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007)

Oct 3, 2006

In our last hands-on with WWE Smackdown! Vs RAW 2007, we covered the known roster, the new analog control scheme and the tremendous variety of props and other implements of destruction you can use to obliterate your opponent. Our friends at THQ stopped by for another visit, but this time, they showered us with info on the newly redesigned Season mode, the General Manager mode and the Create-a-Wrestler mode (which you can witness first-hand if you click the Movies tab above). There are three ...

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 updated hands-on (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007)

Aug 1, 2006

First, let's cover the part of this preview that WWE fans really want to hear: the confirmed roster for WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 so far includes Johnny Nitro, The Undertaker and Shelton Benjamin, along with the previously revealed John Cena, Triple H, Rey Mysterio, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit and Booker T. With that out of the way, we can continue. We've tangled with the Xbox 360 version of SmackDown! before, but this is the first chance we've had to really take our time with it. And while ...

WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007)

Jun 28, 2006

In the movies, a fighter on the rise usually gets a montage outlining his climb up the ladder to success and butt-kickery. If any game were worthy of such treatment, it would be WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. Spanning five platforms and sporting a feature list almost as long as its title, this game has been putting some serious time in at the gym. The SmackDown series - adding "vs. Raw" to the moniker back in 2004 - has become the franchise leader in wrestling games, WWE or otherwise. Now that ...

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 - hands-on (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007)

May 16, 2006

The still-in-progress WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 was on display behind closed doors at E3, and GamesRadar got a firsthand look at the shiny new Xbox 360 version on Friday. What's more, we had a chance to step into Kurt Angle's boots and trade a few backhand slaps with (another journalist playing as) John Cena, and the game looks to be filling out nicely so far. Admittedly, the 360's visuals didn't seem a huge improvement over the already-impressive PS2 SmackDown! vs RAW 2006, at least not at ...

E3 06: WWE SmackDown! vs RAW hands-on (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007)

May 10, 2006

SmackDown! has gone next-gen - and we've already played it. GamesRadar has just been given early access to the Xbox 360 version of the game at E3 and, even a mere five months into development, it's already looking extremely polished. The demo consists of a single one-on-one match, with the choice of characters from the previously-announced line-up of Triple H, Rey Mysterio, John Cena and Kurt Angle. We chose to play as Mysterio while a THQ representive took control of Triple H. After the ...

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008 - hands-on style showdown (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008)

Sep 17, 2007

Sep 17, 2007 In the real world, an ass-kicking is an ass-kicking. It doesn't matter if the other guy is a street brawling gang banger, your martial artist dorm buddy, the bully on the playground, or the girl scout from down the street - the fundamental problem is someone is pounding their knuckles into your face and stomping on your spleen. As such, any further details are ultimately inconsequential. In the world of professional wrestling, however, the fight is largely secondary to the show. ...

WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 - more hands-on (WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008)

Jul 18, 2007

That the SmackDown games have become stale in recent years is undeniable. The last couple felt particularly bogged down with samey-feeling characters, an ill-conceived stamina system and, in last year's outing especially, bafflingly idiotic AI - which Lead Programmer Reiji Sato went so far as to apologize to us for. The series couldn't even think about entering the next generation without a kick up the ass. The good news is that it just might have got one. You might have read about the eight ...