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Damnation (Review)

May 27, 2009

Damnation is a glowing example of how technology in the wrong hands can lead to disaster. Now, when we say this, are we referring to the story, which sees you taking on an army of evil robots in an alternative, steampunk version of the US Civil war? Or are we referring to the fact that Blue Omega have made one of the worst Unreal Engine-powered games we’ve ever seen? Hmm… ...

Dance Dance Revolution Universe (Review)

Mar 2, 2007

Games under Konami's ever popular Dance Dance brand tend to fall into the "review-proof" category. Even if it's identical to the last twelve DDR games, it works. Thus, die hard fans are going to buy it regardless of what we say, and casual fans will probably pick it up out of curiosity or to have the first 360 version. And no matter what we score it - either you're going to love Dance Dance Revolution Universe, or you hate fun. After all, the simplistic and refined core gameplay, consisting of ...

Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 (Review)

Dec 11, 2007

Dec 11, 2007 As a numbered sequel released within the same calendar year as its predecessor, any discussion of Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 is bound to focus heavily on the word "still." As in, this is still essentially the same admittedly cool game we played earlier this year. And several years before that as well. Like the dozens of Dance Dance Revolution iterations released in the last decade, Universe 2 finds players stepping on a floor mat in time with the arrows displayed on ...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements (Review)

Feb 12, 2008

What can Dark Messiah: Elements possibly offer us spoilt medieval fantasy gamers that we haven’t seen or done before? In all honesty: not much. At best, Elements is an enjoyable swords-‘n-spells scrapper, and at worst, it’s a dumbed-down Elder Scrolls, minus the constantly inventive free-roaming and incredible depth.Here, you play as a young acolyte called Sareth, who has recently completed his tutelage under the powerful ...

Dark Sector (Review)

Mar 25, 2008

Dark Sector has so many similarities to Resident Evil 4 that it could be seen as an expansion pack for Capcom’s classic. Firstly, the plot - it focuses around a city infected by a disease. The infection, like RE4’s Las Plagas, turns regular folk into murderous zombies. There’s a shadowy figure attempting to create an army with these creatures. Then there’s the female double agent - she’s like Ada Wong, minus the ...

The Darkness (Review)

Jun 25, 2007

Boxes are scattered around the apartment, evidence that your girlfriend Jenny has only just started moving in. She's surprised you with a birthday cake and - even though you've tried to warn her that you kill people for a living and your former boss is out for your blood - she shrugs it off as a bad joke. Motioning you over to the couch, she kisses you, leans her head on your shoulder and gradually falls asleep as the two of you watch TV. It's not what you'd expect from a hyperviolent shooter, ...

Dead or Alive 4 (Review)

Feb 25, 2006

Girls! Girls! Girls! When you pick up a Dead or Alive fighting game, you know what you're getting, and you can measure it in inches of bust, waist, and hips. Dead or Alive 4, now surgically enhanced for Xbox 360, is no exception. If only it could be a little more fun. Conceptually, there's certainly nothing wrong with the one-on-one battles. Combatants batter one another around using Lucha Libre, Jeet Kun Do, Ninjitsu, and several other styles of formalized hurt that are as tricky to master as ...

Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Review)

Dec 11, 2006

Monday 11 December 2006 Two weeks on an island in the sun, surrounded by beautiful women in barely-there bikinis - sounds like heaven, right? Normally, it would be. Unfortunately, in the case of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, it's just a dull and embarrassing romp around the tropics. We love beating the living hell out of people with the DOA ladies in the series' fighting games for sure, but dressing them up and exchanging presents? Count us out. The game's focus, naturally, is boobs. From the ...

Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Review)

Nov 21, 2006

Two weeks on an island in the sun, surrounded by beautiful women in barely-there bikinis - sounds like heaven, right? Normally, it would be. Unfortunately, in the case of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, it's just a dull and embarrassing romp around the tropics. We love beating the living hell out of people with the DOA ladies in the series' fighting games for sure, but dressing them up and exchanging presents? Count us out. The game's focus, naturally, is boobs. From the opening cutscenes to the ...

Dead Rising (Review)

Aug 8, 2006

Is Dead Rising a zombie game, or a GTA-esque, sandbox-style beat ‘em up with wall-to-wall undead, or a mash up of dozens of different gameplay styles that are more than the sum of their parts? You would do the game right to call it pretty much all of the above. But one thing that Dead Rising isn't is a mere open-world zombie-killing simulator. That's apparent in its highly structured storyline which remains wonderfully true to every single serious-toned zombie flick that George Romero ...

Dead Space (Review)

Oct 14, 2008

Dead Space is the ultimate jigsaw of gaming’s greatest hits, shamelessly stealing features from a decade of classic action games and mixing them together in one giblet-filled melting pot of horror. ...

Death Tank - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Mar 13, 2009

Part remake and part total reboot of the original Saturn minigame, Death Tank is a superb real-time twist on Worms and one of Live Arcade’s best online games. But it’s disgracefully overpriced. ...

Def Jam: Icon (Review)

Mar 6, 2007

Using music as a weapon is nothing new. Westlife songs regularly cause us agonizing pain, while Radiohead makes us want to slit our wrists in despair. But never have we seen music used to such brilliant effect in a fighting game, and after the series' more typical PS2 entries, we really didnt expect the latest Def Jam title to be so amazingly inventive. When you select your character, you also choose a song to represent them and play over the top of fights. Environments now contain plenty of ...

Defender - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Dec 21, 2006

Defender is one of those masterpieces of gaming's golden age that 5% of the population could play well while the other 95% played something that didn't crush their soul. None of the multi-fingered challenge of Defender has disappeared since 1982, but playing it again makes us simply realize how much we suck. The goal of the game's complex control scheme was to make you feel like you're piloting a ship...at least for the 15 to 20 seconds youll be alive to do it. A two-way joystick plus buttons ...

Defense Grid: The Awakening (Review)

Sep 14, 2009

Somebody thought about this one. Tower Defense games are the easiest genre for a developer since Video Tennis; you build a road, some spaces to deploy guns, and then send a bunch of baddies down the path – game done. ...

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Review)

Dec 15, 2008

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon reminds us of the holidays. Unfortunately, it reminds us of Uncle Dennis, who used to show up unshaven and smelling of bourbon every Christmas, call grandma a slut at the table as a “joke,” then go home early to watch a fuzzy, black and white TV. ...

Devil May Cry 4 (Review)

Feb 7, 2008

Devil May Cry might have redefined action gaming when it first stomped onto the PS2 in 2001, but since then the slashy-shooty series has fallen into semi-obscurity. ...

Dirt 2 (Review)

Sep 4, 2009

Codemasters takes the best aspects of its two hit racing franchises to create something very, very special ...

Discs of Tron - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Feb 15, 2008

This is the second of the two classic Tron arcade game to make their way to Microsoft’s downloadable service (the first being the arcade game simply titled Tron). It holds up a lot better than its predecessor. That's not to say Discs of Tron is technically worth your money - both games are a couple decades old at this point - but it’s aged better than its counterpart. Discs of Tron is based on the gladiatorial combat scene from the ...

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (Review)

May 4, 2009

In Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a humble dishwasher, Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee; no relation) fights a bunch of chefs armed with meat cleavers in the back alley behind the restaurant. It’s one of the few good scenes in an awful film, but would it not have been even better if, instead of Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee; no relation) fighting the chefs, you had a dead samurai Dishwasher? ...