Computer game developers have always seen a hit movie as a possible cash cow and often coding begins the moment the film is in production. Unfortunately, the usual 2-3 year period that it takes most games ...

Up until now, if you mentioned the phrase 'World War Two combat game', there were only two possible responses - Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942. But now, thanks to Activision, there's a new kid on ...

Usually the thought of a game franchise based on a movie is enough to have you running screaming for the hills, but EA made such a good attempt at translating the second of the Tolkien trilogy ...

The common prediction when Max Payne shot onto the scene back in 2001 was that it would spawn a slate of imitators, not least for its slo-mo bullet time gimmick, itself a loving testament to the ...

This isn't going to be the only review of Dredd vs Death to conclude that developer Rebellion has created the best Judge Dredd game ever. Sadly, despite seemingly offering golden potential to developers in the past, ...

A sign of the times, perhaps? When you open the box for Tron 2.0, you're immediately faced with blatant ads for Nvidia and Intel, insinuating that to get the best of the game you need to ...

Oft delayed. Beset by secrecy. Over two years in development. But has the latest adventure for Lara Croft been worth the wait? No, frankly. Falling well short of what fans of the franchise had the right ...

As soon as it became clear that gamers were willing to pay a tenner a month to play in a persistent online world, there has been rather a glut of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Fair ...

In spite of all the flaws that stare you in the face after an hour or two of playing Enter The Matrix, the one criticism you can't level at it is that it was rushed. Having ...

We like first person shooters, particularly when there are decent weapons involved. The big question is whether you choose an FPS that is lifelike (e.g. Medal of Honor) or artificial (e.g. Quake 3). Delta Force Black ...

Best described as 'gun-touting vampire takes on devil-worshipping Nazis', BloodRayne sounds more like a B-movie plot than a PC adventure. Thankfully Vivendi's latest is a grade-A action title, with a sexy new heroine and plenty to ...

The original Postal game was banned so quickly that this reviewer never even clapped eyes on it. Still hasn't, in fact. This makes for loads of good publicity, in much the same way that 'Frankie goes ...

If you find Kung Fu fighting a "little bit frightening", then best get ready to hide behind the sofa when you fire up your X-Box and insert the Deadly Alliance disc. It's seriously gory with an ...

It's always interesting to note the strengthening of sub-genres in PC gaming circles, and increasingly with First Person Shooters there's been a line drawn between fun and realism. Traditional FPS games like Quake and Unreal Tournament ...

You know that lone Japanese guy, discovered on some remote Pacific island in the sixties (or thereabouts), who was convinced that the war was still going on? Well, Wanadoo reckons he was right. In fact, the ...

During the mid-eighties, there was a four-player arcade action game into which many a teen pumped endless ten pence pieces, in an effort to conquer various goblins, wizards and witches. It was of course that classic, ...

The word 'terrorist' is becomingly an increasingly blurred term in today's society. Without wishing to get too heavy and political, the difference between a 'terrorist' and a 'freedom fighter' is merely media slant, a choice of ...

Star Wars - it's a catchy but nonsensical name when you really think about it. Exactly how many stars are seen scrapping it out during the film? None, that's how many. They don't even blow a ...

A new addition to the ever popular survival horror genre (for X-Box users, that is; it's been around for a while on the PS2), Silent Hill 2 sticks faithfully to the tried and tested formula that ...

What does the word "halo" mean to you? To a normal person, it most likely conjures up images of angels and possibly Simon Templar (raises eyebrow). To the rabid gamer however, it can only mean one ...