Movies and computer games have always had a close tie, but only a handful of games have lived up to more than half the promise of the film originals. The Star Wars franchise in particular has ...

Zombies are very popular these days. Which is surprising: you'd think their general hostile demeanour and lack of table manners would be off-putting. Vampires are big, too, but it's the shambling decaying corpses that Valve has ...

Excluding the time when Nintendo 64 owners got to enjoy the majesty of GoldenEye, James Bond and videogaming haven't really got on. A never-ending collection of lacklustre titles from Electronic Arts seemed content to bastardise the ...

There's no point beating about the bush here: Far Cry 2 is a huge game. The reviewers' notes that came with our test copy describe the game in 20-hour chunks, and it's clear that - contrary ...

The survival horror genre has come a long way from the original Doom and Resident Evil days, with the action frequently moving into space, Hell (Hellgate London, Painkiller) and even under the sea (BioShock). Usually the ...

As the name suggests, FaceBreaker isn't a subtle affair. It's an arcade boxing game in which the cartoon boxers' faces get slowly deformed with every punch, so by the end of the bout their noses are ...

The first half hour you spend in the company of The Force Unleashed is likely to be, for many people, just what's required of a Star Wars game. Kicking off with you playing a mighty, powerful ...

It's hard to believe that it was only just over a year ago that STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl first introduced us to a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision of an otherworldly Zone created around a mythical second devastation ...

Mixing anachronistic elements isn't a new idea in gaming, although Too Human's blend of Viking mythology and science fiction feels fresh nonetheless. The game's story postulates a futuristic war between men and machines, although humankind has ...

Wall-E is a film about a little robot that looks like the one out of Short Circuit. He's not some prototype military bot, mind you, but has the rather more unassuming profession of trash compacting. That ...

The Soul Calibur titles are fighting games which define themselves with weapons. The characters are mostly armed with various types of sword, although more exotic weaponry such as scythes, bo staffs and bladed rings are also ...

It might have created the survival horror genre back on the PC in the 1990s, but time nonetheless demands more of a brand new Alone In The Dark than Atari has delivered here. For in spite ...

Pandas are famous for several reasons, but none of them particularly exciting. For instance, they're fond of bamboo, sleeping and not reproducing efficiently. They aren't particularly renowned as great fighters, although they do a good line ...

Now we weren't expecting this. Back when The Bourne Conspiracy was announced, seemingly more as a tie-in to the movies than the Robert Ludlum books, we smelt cash-in. Then the game was delayed, to ensure ...

Dragon Ball is a long running beat-'em-up franchise, but Burst Limit is its first outing onto a next generation platform. The result is that the anime-inspired graphics have never looked so good: the fighters are bold, ...

It seems like a hundred years ago that the dino-hunting game Turok appeared on the N64, and now it's returned with a complete makeover to try to attract the first-person shooter crowd who want something a ...

Sadly, we're finding ourselves having to get used to big budget, high profile games being underwhelming by the time we finally get our paws on them. At the end of last year, UbiSoft - the same ...

The film of Iron Man is pretty darn good. Or so we hear from friends, as we've not actually seen it yet. In typical movie licence style, the game doesn't really have much of a plot; ...

With apologies for bursting some of the bubble of euphoria that's surrounding many reviews for Metal Gear Solid 4 right now, this latest game in the franchise is a frustrating mixture of flat-out brilliance combined with ...

We've all heard of Grand Theft Auto, or GTA as it's usually abbreviated. Even non-games-playing pensioners will have seen and been outraged by at least one of the GTA games when it's been on the news. ...