There was a time near the dawn of console gaming when it seemed that the world was hooked on one-on-one combat games and at the centre of this craze was a game that saw its birth ...

Bethesda's latest offering (developed by A2M) is a rather oddly named third-person shooter. The heroine, Rubi, stares out from the box cover with a pouting and wanton expression, the game title "Wet" boldly printed beside her ...

The abandonment of the planned The Dark Knight videogame (that was due to tie into the movie of the same name) several months into production seemed to be the end as far as a new Batman ...

With characters talking as if they've just walked out of an episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo, and cut scenes that you want to skip pretty much as soon as they've started, the latest revival of the grand-daddy ...

With 45 years of service in the line of toys, comics, cartoons and various other spin-offs, GI Joe is a grizzled veteran these days. But the franchise isn't about to retire to a log cabin in ...

Bionic technology can facilitate some amazing feats. It can produce a super-strong hand that lets you crush metal. Or mechanical legs that allow you to run a hundred metres in several seconds flat (and make strange ...

Hmmm. The training segment at the start of G-Force has “rushing to meet a deadline” written all over it. Some games will build a level around it all. Not this one: here, you're told how to ...

It's another term at Hogwarts, another film - this one a bit darker than the last (again) - and another video game licence from EA. But before you begin waving your wand and practicing your 'reparo' ...

The last Transformers tie-in game was really not very good at all. We're being charitable there, in case you never had the pleasure of it. And with the new film either being the best thing ever, ...

It's hard to believe that eight years have gone by since Bohemia Interactive launched Operation Flashpoint on an unsuspecting PC gaming world, introducing a degree of realistic single- and multi-player warfare that had hitherto been unimaginable. ...

Red Faction is a franchise that's been away from our screens for some time. It's original selling point, back when the existing two games in the franchise pre-Guerilla were released, was the fact that you could ...

Your reviewer is old enough to remember the palpable disappointment of forking out a tenner for the original Ghostbusters computer game on the ZX Spectrum, and sitting bewildered as he kept failing to get into Zuul ...

There's a scene in the fairly tepid Will Smith movie Hancock where the title character - a reluctant superhero by trade - falls from a great height and lands on the pavement, cracking it as he ...

Damnation is one of those third-person shooters that captures the imagination in all the pre-release PR and then manages to disappoint expectant gamers by overloading the hype too far. What's most annoying about it is that ...

It is far in the future, two years before the events portrayed in the film Terminator: Salvation. The world is awash with brutal killing machines, primed with technological brilliance to beef up their already dramatic threat ...

It's surprising, looking back, that there wasn't a tie-in game for the first Night At The Museum movie. Okay, it was something of a surprise hit, but still, here was the basis for a potentially useful, ...

Considering the relatively family-friendly certificate gracing the X-men Origins: Wolverine movie, it's something of a surprise to see any hope of similar thinking for the tie-in game decimated in a bloody and gory opening sequence. Fast-forward ...

Making a mockery out of the notion that translating movies into videogames generally results in cheap cash-ins and forgettable titles, Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay worked the other way round. While not directly based ...

While The Godfather II comes with its own familiar cinematic strings, it's impossible to cruise the streets of the Big Apple without humming the Fun Lovin' Criminals song, "King of New York". At least we found ...

Ayumi is a lithe, leaping, treasure hunting girl who plunders ancient ruins for powerful artifacts. Sound familiar? Ah, but you see she's very different to Lara. Ayumi wears far fewer clothes for starters: forget tight shorts, ...