GamesRadar - Xbox 360 Reviews

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (Review)

28/05/2009

Looking at Sacred 2: Fallen Angel from a purely statistical point of view, we had high expectations; 22 square miles of open world to explore, 100 core campaign missions, six classes of characters, tens of thousands of customizable weapons and armor pieces and four-player multiplayer. ...

Saints Row (Review)

29/08/2006

Aside from the formula for Coca-Cola, no pop culture secret has been more difficult to replicate than Grand Theft Auto's recipe for open-ended videogaming thuggery. A few have had moderate RC Cola-level acceptance, but most have been Crystal Pepsi-sized failures. Finally, however, we have a winner. Saints Row is the Pepsi to GTA's Coke. Emulating GTA with near-perfect precision - a subversive, satirical sense of humor is the only thing lacking - Saints Row drops your custom-created anti-hero ...

Saints Row 2 (Review)

14/10/2008

We don’t get the recent GTA IV backlash. At all. GTA IV was amazing. Deep down, everyone knows it. Though even we’d admit that once you’d plowed through Niko’s story, what remained was hardly the greatest example of raucous sandbox fun... ...

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space (Review)

25/11/2009

A superb seasonal adventure kicks off this latest foray into the weird world of Sam and Max. This time the duo must perform an exorcism on Santa, contend with a pop-quoting robot and even descend into the bowels of hell itself. ...

Samurai Warriors 2 (Review)

20/09/2006

Koei is releasing the same game for what seems to be the 97th time in the last four years. The latest installment in the popular Warriors series is Samurai Warriors 2. Based in feudal Japan, this title blends a ridiculous amount of mindless violence, entertaining cutscenes, some truly horrendous voice acting and an upgrade system that's totally wasted. Put it all together and you have a real yawner of a game that's more dirty farm peasant than exalted warlord. Only the most loyal of fans should ...

Samurai Warriors 2: Empires (Review)

2/03/2007

Samurai Warriors 2: Empires looks great on paper: based on historical Japanese events, you must lead your feudal clan of soldiers into battle, hacking away at enemies, unleashing devastating special attacks all while devising strategy and executing policy in hopes of guiding your people to ultimate victory and the unification of your beloved Nippon. Sounds awesome, no? Well, Koei must agree because theyve made the same game countless times already under the Dynasty Warriors moniker. As the ...

SAW (Review)

28/10/2009

SAW is a happy game with bunnies and flowers and cakes. Arch villain Jigsaw’s had a change of heart and is dishing out presents because… no, not really. It’s bloody miserable. It’s also hugely dark, crudely animated, has ropey combat, and the scenarios – despite getting more and more gruesome as the game goes on – start to drag after a few hours. Not much to like then? ...

SBK-08 (Review)

1/08/2008

It’s not a great advert for your sport when your poster boy/flagship rider jumps ship and joins up with the competition, especially when he then goes and gets his (presumably) hemorrhoid-riddled arse handed to him on a plate by old masters like Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden. Poor old James Toseland… baptism of fire or what? ...

SBK09 Superbike World Championship (Review)

12/06/2009

So SBK ‘09 is pretty good. It’s alright. It’s decent. At times, it even dares to be enjoyable. Hell, if you catch it out of the corner of your eye when it thinks you aren’t looking, it even skirts with the idea of being fun. Gasp! ...

Scene It? Box Office Smash (Review)

4/12/2008

Another Christmas, another quiz game. Scene It?’s 2007 leap from board game to virtual toy wasn’t quite up to Buzz’s often lofty standards, but marked a promising foray into the genre for Microsoft nonetheless. Now that it’s backed up by casual titles Lips and You’re in the Movies the movie quiz’s second outing is a much stronger prospect than before. ...

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action (Review)

8/11/2007

Scene It? You probably have. It's a popular media-based trivia board game that's been available for years in numerous different editions. Even some On Demand cable plans have a free version. So what makes the Xbox 360 version special? Well for one, Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action has all new controllers for that ass. These little plastic pollywogs [bottom right] may not look like much, but remember: they're designed exclusively for this game, and more importantly, to work on an actual game ...

Schizoid - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

15/08/2008

Sometimes the simple ideas are the best ones, and they really don’t get much more basic than this. Depending on the difficulty you control either one or two ships with the analogue sticks and must swallow enemies of the same colour while dodging the rest. ...

SCORE International Baja 1000 (Review)

12/02/2009

Almost any game can be described as a clone of another; Dead Space longed to topple Resident Evil 4, Bayonetta aches to emulate Devil May Cry, and Score International Baja 1000 World Championship Offroad Racing (just Baja 1000 from now on)… well, desperately wants to live up to the lofty standards of Baja: Edge of Control. As in, THQ’s vapid racer critics gave a collective “meh” last year. ...

Scramble - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

13/09/2006

Konami's greatest games keep appearing on Xbox Live - and somehow, Scramble showed up too. While games like Time Pilot aged gracefully, this side-scrolling space shooter feels old and inflexible, a crusty gaming battleship dragged out of drydock. All you can do is stare and go, "Wow, that's old." Granted, they gave the old girl a fresh coat of paint - a major improvement, considering the horrifying original color scheme changes flourescent shades every few seconds - but the gameplay underneath ...

Screwjumper! - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

16/11/2007

Nov 16, 2007 There was a game released for the short-lived Nuon system called Freefall 3050 AD. It was about this supercop who apparently jumped down large holes to save the world or something. No one really knows, because the game sucked, so no one bothered playing for more than a few minutes. Screwjumper can best be described as the spiritual successor to that ...

Sea Life Safari - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

15/07/2008

It’s an underwater fish-photographing on-rails romp. A submariner’s Pokemon Snap, then. While it’s not fun, nor much of a game, it’s something to be enjoyed while kicking back after an evening’s mindless blammo action. ...

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (Review)

16/07/2009

For those of us of a certain age, there was no more pleasant surprise at E3 than this – the resurrection of perhaps the most celebrated graphic adventure of them all. ...

Secret Service (Review)

6/01/2009

The President elect is under fire! It’s up to the Secret Service – basically, you and a load of idiots who get shot all the time – to protect him. If the plot seems like it’s courting disaster, especially in the current political climate, the action is playing it decidedly safe, doling out genero-gunplay and genero-terrorists like they’re going out of fashion. ...

Section 8 (Review)

12/10/2009

Armored drop troopers plummet from orbit to do battle with hostile forces on a war-torn planet in Section 8, a sci-fi first-person shooter from developer TimeGate Studios. Unfortunately, despite a few surprisingly fun gimmicks, Section 8 falls short of greatness and winds up playing like a generic cookie-cutter shooter. ...

Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Review)

11/02/2009

Let's be straight from the beginning. This is hardly the first collection of old Sega Genesis games. And it's even hardlier the first title to collect older Sonic games. In fact, when we first heard about this collection our reaction was, "Really, they're milking out another one of these things?" ...