We suppose it's inevitable that World War II will bring out the blood-lust in game designers. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942 et al have demonstrated that there's no adrenaline buzz like taking on ...

You'd be hard pushed to find a first-person shooter that takes quite the same delight in wanton destruction that Black does. Within ten minutes of its company, you'll have seen environments shot to shreds around you, ...

Changes have certainly been afoot since we met the Commandos franchise last. Traditionally an isometric-perspective, strategy-come-puzzle game, the franchise has made the switch to first-person, and it's made a far better fist of it than we'd ...

"Aren't girls great? Aside from the gnashing of teeth, comical efforts at reverse parking and an unhealthy interest in the film catalogue of Hugh Grant, at their finest they're a sight to behold." That's the most ...

It was inevitable after the success of such fantasy hits as The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter movies that C. S. Lewis' Christian fable, set in the mythical snowbound land of Narnia, would ...

It's inevitable that when a big film comes out, the adult movie industry will come up with an alternative title. You know all the classics... Shaving Ryan's Privates, Good Will Humping and so forth. However, it's ...

We've got the secret of the kids' book market sussed. The subject matter is irrelevant: whether it's an author writing about talking rabbits, or a main character who's an acne-ridden adolescent wizard, the key is the ...

Many of the key improvements and evolutions of Call Of Duty 2 over the original have been well charted already. We'll come to them shortly. But let's throw convention out of the window and start with ...

Quake 4 is actually the sequel to Quake 2. If you're feeling a little confused, let us explain. Revisionist videogame historians have completely struck Quake 3 from the records, mainly because of the infernally annoying noise ...

Where does Batman begin? We could say that he begins at the soles of his feet, and he ends at the little pointy bat ears on the top of his costume. Or we could get philosophical ...

When Ubisoft launched the fabulous First Person Shooter (FPS) Far Cry in 2004 it did so on a single DVD, rather than the stack of three CDs that you might expect. While this was a welcome ...

Star Wars games have been a mixed bunch, ranging from the lamentably mediocre to the engrossingly spectacular, so it was with some trepidation that fans have been anticipating the new tie-in to Episode III, the last ...

Tom Clancy's special operations agent Sam Fisher has become as much of a gaming icon as Lara Croft and Sonic the Hedgehog. The mixture of cool and moody graphics, allied to a cool and moody hero ...

It's perhaps a lazy way to open a review of a game based on a movie by stating the following, but here goes anyway. Games based on movies are rarely any good. Whilst occasionally the odd ...

What do you get if you take Half Life, revamp the graphics, add vehicles and a more grand, cinematic storyline, and mix in some Big Brother and War of the Worlds ambience? We'll give you a ...

Have you ever known the sheer panic invoked by the hiss of a cacodemon spawning behind you, or the pain of a shower of multiple imp fireballs? Such were the creatures of Hell summoned by the ...

We've got some sympathy for Vivendi Universal. Admittedly, for years its been behind some really quite insipid tie-in games to the various movies in the Universal Pictures archive, yet with last year's Hulk, the company delivered ...

Stealth gaming seems to be one of the growth areas these days, ever since the Thief series kicked off and the first Splinter Cell game introduced the intrepid solo operative Sam Fisher, recruited by the National ...

First, let's get the plot of this first-person shooter out of the way. Charter boat owner Jack Carver is offered a considerable amount of money by sultry journalist Valerie Constantine to take her to an uncharted ...

There's always a suspicion, once publishers start releasing updated versions of products on an annual basis with just the year name changing in the title, that it's just an excuse to slightly tart up last year's ...