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Fable 2 Pub Games - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

22/08/2008

Apparently trying to drum up anticipation for the release of Fable 2, developer Lion Head has spewed forth this mini-collection of minigames. While designed to be passable time-wasters, these three games, including Keystone, Fortune’s Tower, and Spinnerbox also have a nefarious hook. ...

Fable II (Review)

20/10/2008

Forget acorns growing into oak trees. Forget a hero moulded by moral choice. Forget a world forged over 30 years. This is role-playing in the child’s sense: dress up and pretend. Example: at one point we played a highwayman. ...

FaceBreaker (Review)

4/09/2008

When you launch a new product range, your first game/cheese/film/whatever has to embody everything that’s good about the brand. SSX was the perfect launch game for EA BIG because it captured everything the label stood for; that is to say exciting, extreme and over the top. Unfortunately for EA Freestyle, flagship title FaceBreaker couldn’t be a bigger mismatch if it tried. ...

Fairytale Fights (Review)

28/10/2009

There’s one good thing about Fairytale Fights – the combat doesn’t suck. Well, not immediately anyway. Sadly, everything else that surrounds this average hack and slash gameplay pretty much does. The story, the platform bits, right down to the character design – which reminds us of the annoying Rabbids – all of it makes for a huge drag. The worst bit? It costs as much as a top-brand game. ...

Fallout 3 (Review)

28/10/2008

Nobody knows who dropped the first bomb, and nobody cares. 200 years have passed since a nuclear war between the U.S. and China reduced the planet to cinders, and humanity has only one concern: survival. The fallout not only destroyed civilisation, but twisted and distorted it. ...

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Review)

29/06/2007

Comics and games are a combo right on par with popcorn at the movies, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is no exception. The game takes plot elements from the movie it's based on and the comic series to weave a story chucked full of Fantastic Four nemeses. Everyone from the Skrull to Terrax to, dum, dum, dummmm: the Silver Surfer makes an appearance. But instead of feeling like a universe encompassing rumble, it just feels like more enemies for The Thing to smash. You'll begin the ...

Far Cry 2 (Review)

17/10/2008

When you first start playing Far Cry 2, you’ll be forgiven for thinking that it absolutely bloody hates you. Gunfire flies from nowhere, peppering you to pieces before you’ve even seen your attacker. Your fragile health bar drops to almost nothing within seconds. ...

Far Cry Instincts Predator (Review)

7/04/2006

The island-themed, first-person shooter Far Cry Instincts for the Xbox isn't currently playable on the 360. This is relevant because, although this 360 game gets its own name, it's really an upgraded and bundled version of Instincts and its expansion pack, Far Cry Instincts Evolution. It's actually a great value for the money, just as long as you don't already own one of the other releases. Though lead flies aplenty from all manner of weaponry, and the scripted event sequences turn you into an ...

Fatal Inertia (Review)

12/09/2007

Sept 12, 2007 The Xbox 360's garage is outrageously well-stocked with racers, yet Koei has spied a gap in this market, hence Fatal Inertia - what initially looks like Koei's answer to Wipeout but transpires to be more like a, well... rubbishy futuristic version of Diddy Kong ...

FEAR 2: Project Origin (Review)

10/02/2009

Any game in which you have a small powder keg of gunfire at your disposal shouldn’t be scary. It certainly shouldn’t be creepy. It shouldn’t have you slowly stalking a dimly lit corridor packing a beefy shotgun in anticipation of the grim, blood-soaked ghoul that’s lurking around the corner. ...

FEAR Files (Review)

6/11/2007

Nov 6, 2007 If you caught us while we were struggling through an inferior FPS that doesn't do the basic fundamentals that Halo nails so well, we could rattle off reasons all day long. Let's look at exhibit A: F.E.A.R. Files. Now, you might think it somewhat cruel to compare a game like Halo 3 to a game which consists of a couple of short expansion packs to a PC game that's over two years old and isn't wearing its age particularly well. But then, publishers Vivendi obviously think it's fit to ...

FEAR First Encounter Assault Recon (Review)

1/11/2006

What's the point of a shooting game? Shooting things! It's weird, then, how many first-person shooters are content to settle for positively wimpy gun mechanics, with rifles that sound like pea-shooters and machine guns that take three boxes of ammo to down a small mammal. If it's not fun to shoot, what's the point? Make an RPG or something. It's much more interesting to play games in which your shotgun's barrels emit deep rumbles, bullets palpably smash into bodies and where flying gore is ...

Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

29/10/2008

Another game from Popcap for us to play while they’re busy not releasing Peggle on Arcade. Eat small fish, grow bigger, eat bigger fish – it’s essentially a remake of the original with new levels, better graphics, and more fish. If you’ve played Feeding Frenzy, you’ll be okay doing without the sequel. Or even if you haven’t played it. ...

Feeding Frenzy - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

21/04/2006

As with just about every Xbox Live Arcade game available (except maybe Wik: Fable of Souls), Feeding Frenzy is an exercise in basic game design. Stripped down to core elements, Feeding Frenzy challenges you to do two things: eat fish smaller than you and avoid getting eaten by bigger fish. While you're chomping and evading other chompers, you can pick up all kinds of little under-sea doodads, like score-boosting starfish or extra lives and the ...

FIFA 07 (Review)

9/11/2006

FIFA 07 for the Xbox 360 will simultaneously delight and infuriate soccer fans around the world. Those of us that have played the superb Xbox and PS2 versions are likely spoiled by its excellence, and will find the 360 version lacking in some degrees. If you haven't stepped on the virtual pitch for a couple of seasons, though, chances are you won't be as bummed this ...

FIFA 08 (Review)

28/09/2007

Sept 28, 2007 Ironically, while this seasons Winning Eleven appears to have wholeheartedly embraced a faster-paced, more arcade-y style, FIFA has gone sim crazy. But, like the pain Spurs fans must experience with each passing year, all that pre-season optimism turns to mush as soon as the first ball is kicked. More of that later, though; lets kick off with the good stuff... Its almost boring repeating the annual mantra, but FIFA 08 sure does look purdy. Though some of the players still sport ...

FIFA 09 (Review)

3/10/2008

To put it simply in three words: this is ace. FIFA 09 plays a blinder of a game and we are absolutely loving it ...

FIFA 10 (Review)

26/09/2009

Over the last few years FIFA has been a bit like Man United’s tough-tacking, but workman-like, jobber Darren Fletcher. Solid, yet rarely thrilling, it’s been easy to look past EA’s faithful sim in favour of Pro Evolution Soccer’s sexier, arcade-fuelled football. But, just like the uncompromising midfielder, this year’s FIFA has come on leaps and bounds over the last 12 months.

Wayne-Wooney?

But, ...

FIFA 10 (Review)

25/09/2009

Over the last few years FIFA has been a bit like Man United’s tough-tackling, but workman-like, jobber Darren Fletcher. Solid, yet rarely thrilling, it’s been easy to look past EA’s faithful sim in favour of Pro Evolution Soccer’s sexier, arcade-fuelled football. But, just like the uncompromising midfielder, this year’s FIFA has come on leaps and bounds over the last 12 months.

Wayne Who-ney?

But, before we get into the meat and ...

FIFA Street 3 (Review)

27/02/2008

FIFA Street is absurd, but not entirely unrealistic. For all its fancy flicks, deft touches and brilliant goals from impossible angles, it’s not that different from the football you think you’re playing while down the park with mates. Best of all, thanks to revised gameplay and new looks, FIFA Street 3 lets you live out your Kaka-esque dreams without the toe-curling urban ‘vibez’ - and dire MC Harvey commentary - of the ...