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LEGO Batman: The Videogame (Review)

Sep 23, 2008

Who is Batman to you? The violent lawman of the modern comics? The wink-wink star of the 60’s TV show? Tim Burton’s gothic icon, perhaps? The point is this: Travellers’ Tales have never had a subject so open to LEGO interpretation, and with it, playful experimentation. And boy, do they love it. Did you feel that Indy was a tad shackled to his tombs and dusty continents? ...

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Review)

Jun 3, 2008

How can a game that’s identical to the brilliant LEGO Star Wars in almost every respect not be as good? Simple - the setting. The Star Wars universe is vibrant, colourful and fantastical, while Indy’s real-world ’40s setting is more subdued. This works in the context of the films, but recreated in LEGO it has none of the outlandish flair of Lucas’ galaxy far, far away. ...

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Review)

Dec 22, 2006

Wednesday 6 September 2006 Lego Star Wars II looks, feels and plays like it's been designed by a group of people who love games, understand gamers and know how important it is to have fun.For instance, you might think that the 'you never really die' system shouldn't work - avoiding dying's the most important part of games, right? Well, no - for younger fans and casual types it's perfect, letting them see the entire game without dying. For serious gamers, though, there's the challenge of ...

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Review)

Dec 4, 2006

Last year, LEGO Star Wars taught us what should have been apparent to everyone from the dawn of the universe - LEGO, Star Wars and video games go together like chocolate, peanut butter and creamy nougat. So it comes as no surprise that this new and improved version of last years kid-friendly darling captivated us from the introductory text crawl (you know... that part where the yellow letters march up the screen telling the harrowing tale of one of the most celebrated trilogies in the ...

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Review)

Nov 6, 2007

Nov 6, 2007 So you've caused a brick-showering gunfight in the Cantina. You've abused the Force to stack up some empty beer bottles - then rolled a bowling ball through the lot of them. You've built a little LEGO car and pootled happily around one of those flat plastic Lego roads with the bobbly grass on. You've created a new Star Wars hero with C-3PO's head and Princess Leia's legs. And all this in the first five ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (Review)

Jul 5, 2006

Elven bows sing and dwarven hammers ring as your fellowship fights desperately against a swarming horde of orcs and goblins. Enormous eagles and shrieking dragons clash overhead while, outside your city's walls, cave trolls are exchanging crushing blows with giant talking trees. Although the outlook is dire, you can't help but smile as you summon your next attack - a happy band of rock-tossing hobbits. They're probably dead men walking, but still: hobbits. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for ...

Lost Odyssey (Review)

Feb 6, 2008

The first thing everyone wants to know is: will Lost Odyssey unseat Final Fantasy as the definitive RPG experience?Our answer: No, it won’t. Lost Odyssey is almost everything classic Final Fantasy ever was, but not much else. Having FF creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and composer Nobuo Uematsu on the team gives the game more credit than your average “new” RPG, and the mature plot gets major points for NOT starring some plucky youth ...

Lost Planet Colonies (Review)

Jun 3, 2008

Rumored for months thanks to foreign trademark filings and general Internet speculation, Lost Planet Colonies is not a true sequel nor the strategy-focused offshoot that some claimed to be in the works - rather it's an expanded re-release of the original 2007 shooter, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Call it a Gold Edition, or perhaps just a super-sized Platinum Hit. ...

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Review)

Jan 9, 2007

Tuesday 9 January 2007 The skin-cracking January weather may be inhospitable to most humans but it makes for the perfect battleground scenario. Trapped on an isolated planet, it's you against an endless army of giant bugs and ruthless snow pirates. Your only memories are of loss and violence, something about betrayal and a towering knowledge of rocket-launching robotic suits. Basically, you're well-equipped to blast the living hell out of everything you see. And in Lost Planet, that's all you ...

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Review)

Jan 8, 2007

The skin-cracking January weather may be inhospitable to most humans, but it makes for the perfect battleground scenario. Trapped on an isolated planet, it's you against an endless army of giant bugs and ruthless snow pirates. Your only memories are of loss and violence, something about betrayal and a towering knowledge of rocket-launching robotic suits. Basically, you're well-equipped to blast the living hell out of everything you see. And in Lost Planet, that's all you need to do. The path ...

Lost: Via Domus (Review)

Feb 28, 2008

So it begins with a huge close up of an eye. The camera pulls back to reveal a man on a beach, surrounded by wreckage… of the Lost videogame, the result of a terrifying midair explosion of bad coding, poorly implemented ideas and frustrating minigames. And the ending, oh God, the ending… How did he end up here? Time for a convenient flashback perhaps. Polar bears. Hatches. Giant electromagnets. If none of these things mean anything ...

Lumines Live! - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Nov 9, 2006

The best puzzlers are simple games, with a twist. In Lumines Live!, you need to remove two-tone blocks from the screen by creating squares or rectangles of like pattern, but the blocks only disappear when an EKG-like vertical timeline moves over them. The twist is that the timelines speed changes depending on the current "skin" - meaning the game's actual appearance - youre on. Different skins alter the art style and also speed up or slow down the timeline, which can drastically alter your ...

Luxor 2 - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Apr 11, 2007

If youve been on Live Arcade for a while now, chances are youve played Zuma - if you don't remember, it's the one with the frog projectile-vomiting colored spheres. And if you havent…well, you should. Its one of the most engaging puzzlers on the service. And now Luxor 2 has pretty much beaten it in every way. The goal in Luxor 2 is the same as in Zuma; fire jewels (or balls; whatever they are) from your launcher into in a twisting line of rainbow-hued balls thats slowly inching its way ...