To be fair, it was always going to be quite a job to match the quality of Resident Evil 4. With that game, Capcom rejuvenated both a genre and one of its mainstay franchises, with a ...

While the anticipation of a new Resident Evil game builds up to limited edition consoles, collectors' edition packaging and acres of specialist press attention, Konami's own trip into the world of horror, Silent Hill, has found ...

War and horror go together like Bond and vodka martinis and recently there's been an upsurge in interest in combining ‘ordinary' combat with nightmarish zombies and monsters (compare the recent F.E.A.R. 2 and Shellshock 2: Blood ...

There was a brief period at the beginning of this Millennium when Vietnam was the fashionable place to set your shooting games, as a break from the endless stream from WWII. Platoon, Vietcong, Conflict: Vietnam, Battlefield ...

FEAR 2: Project Origin picks up immediately after the end of the first game. This reviewer has to take the publisher's word for that, having thrown in the towel on the first game around two-thirds through. ...

Painful thumbs. That's the holdover from the heady days of Street Fighter 2 and its many sequels in the early 90s. It was the game where you didn't have to remember a telephone directory of button ...

Let's get some necessities out of the way first. House Of The Dead: Overkill has as potty-mouthed a script as we've heard in a video game in a long time. It's bursting with gore. Its graphics ...

It's nice to see some original thinking in computer gaming, and the concept of an action-adventure based on free running is certainly a novel one. If you're not familiar with free running, it's basically legging it ...

The problem with successful movies is that game developers buy into the franchise and then rush out as many games as they dare based on the original and assume they will make oodles of dosh. Luckily ...

On paper, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is something of a paradoxical treat. On one hand, the union of arguably the planet's rawest and nastiest fighting game franchise (replete with characters such as Sub Zero and ...

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 ...