If 2007 has proven one thing about gaming, it's that it very much still has the power to surprise. Earlier in the year we had the genuinely unnerving and quite brilliant Bioshock, a narrative feast with ...

It sounds like a marriage made in gaming heaven. Splash Damage invented the multiplayer add-on to Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) which was released as a free download and became a massive hit amongst ...

A surprising but not unwelcome choice for a modern-day reworking, Alien Syndrome was originally an entertaining arcade blast that owed some of its styling to the likes of Gauntlet. Viewed from overhead (and now moved to ...

There's logic in wrapping a game around the work of horror writer Clive Barker. A few years' ago, Clive Barker's Undying proved to be a genuinely unsettling romp, and it still earns a few pretty pennies ...

These days, the ever-present battle where first-person shooters are concerned is what can be done differently with the genre. EA's latest addition to its hit Medal of Honor series introduces a slight spin on the norm ...

Considering the dog's dinner that was made of the PC conversion of Resident Evil 4 earlier in 2007, that the Nintendo Wii version has been adorned with so much care and attention is a welcome, unexpected ...

Sadly, there's little option here but to start with a rant. Whoever decided that PC gamers should be penalised by the horrific installation process of Bioshock really needs to stand up and take the punishment. The ...

2004 saw a fine little Transformers game released. Published by Atari, the game Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon enjoyed favourable reviews and a warm reception amongst fans of the 'formers. As for the new game, based ...

If games were made on paper, then Monster Madness would work. A kind of old-school shoot-'em-up with new generation production values, it should have been the very drink that Xbox 360 and PC gamers would be ...

By most critical consensus, the Fantastic Four films aren't really very good. Sure, they're glossy enough, packed with effects, and there's an argument that the sequel's actually the better of the two. But there's no getting ...

Every now and then in Spider-man 3, there are real signs that the game is close to clicking. Swinging through the streets of New York, for instance, is a bit of a hoot, and zipping around ...

Arriving only a year after its predecessor, there's a finger of suspicion being pointed at Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW 2), namely that its hasty arrival broadly hints at an undercooked game. In fact, reading ...

It's been a long time in production and eagerly anticipated, but now that it's finally seen the murky light of a radioactive day, how does GSC Game World's post-apocalyptic baby match up to all the hype? ...

All is not right in Heaven and Hell. For a start, renegade angel Ryan Lennox has been banished to Earth for breaking protocol and now the Devil wants to recruit him to even up the balance ...

There are logical reasons why you'd choose to wait for a PC version of a classic console game. In the case of Resident Evil 4 - a superb entry into the franchise and arguably one of ...

The hype machine for the Nintendo Wii would have you believe that every game that crosses the machine turns to gold. That's blatantly not the case, as in truth only two or three of the first ...

The plot of this first-person shooter revolves around terrorists who have acquired a tactical nuke. They're taking it closer to London on board a ship, because it's only a short-range missile and... oh, it's all too ...

It's a crude way to describe a game, perhaps, but imagine a Grand Theft Auto-alike that was as freeform vertically as it was horizontally. That goes some way towards describing Microsoft's latest salvo for the Xbox ...

Here's a warning: beware of any game that the manufacturer claims to "present a Triple A-calibre gaming experience for intense action-adventure gaming enthusiasts", especially when it's based on a movie franchise and looks suspiciously as though ...

On the back of the packaging for Capcom's first game on Xbox 360 since the triumphant Dead Rising, it declares that this is the 'coldest, toughest action' on the console. Consider yourself warned. With a first ...