Who'd have thought it? A war-based first-person shooter inspired by the Antiques Roadshow. No, it might not involve bursting into Whitby Town Hall and mowing down Hugh Scully with a Browning Automatic Rifle - though there's ...

You may have seen the original Operation Flashpoint game reviewed elsewhere, but we've been waiting for the full pack to come out. And here it is. The updated version of the original game plus the 'Red ...

"Barker?" "Here Sir" "Herbert?" "Here..." "King?... King?" "Uhh, here Sir" Just imagine it... a class full of kiddie horror authors. Naught could be heard but the soft and slightly irksome scratching of the chalk upon the ...

Hmm... Serious Sam is an odd name for a video game character. Sounds like one of Desperate Dan's long lost relatives. There's probably a large family of alliterative heroes out there somewhere; you can just imagine ...

Tomb Raider Chronicles sees Lara-and-her-ample-proportions Croft return in the fifth adventure in the Tomb Raider series. Despite the fact that we are now four years on from the first instalment of the game, the format hasn't ...

It is indeed true that no one lives forever, unless you happen to be a mad Scot descended from the Clan McCloud of McSomewhere-or-other. And even then if you have your head sliced off you're in ...

If you're not familiar with the name American McGee then you weren't a Quake fanatic back in the 'good old days', for he was responsible for many of the cool level designs prevalent in the id ...

If the IT Reviews hacks were given a Medorrian credit for every Star Trek licensed game released on the PC over the last few years, we'd be pretty rich, that's for sure. If only the planet ...

If it's not an unspeakable, ancient, evil spirit threatening the world, or an unhinged madman with a claw for a hand and a penchant for cats, then it's a mysterious outbreak of dinosaurs from the distant ...

While the subject matter of Flying Heroes might not be original - and that's putting it mildly; it's a deathmatch game - the implementation definitely is. Imagine your Quake marine, not dressed in his laser-scarred battle ...

There are always games that are over-hyped and over-sell, but what about the games that should have sold a bundle but somehow get 'under-hyped' and end up at the bottom of the bargain bins? Truly great ...

Whoever would have thought that a rather crude, non-politically-correct 3D shooter where you ran around a castle exterminating Nazis would foster such a long and distinguished line of grandchildren. As the Bible would put it, Wolfenstein ...

There's a clever bloke by the name of Jordan Mechner who created one of the most ground-breaking computer games of its time, just over a decade ago. Called Prince of Persia, it stunned players and press ...

For the purists, it's been four years since the last true MechWarrior title, MechWarrior II, was released, although there have been some spin-off games in the intervening years that also featured large metal battle bipeds. After ...

One of the first types of game to appear on the PC, and indeed other computer platforms, was a cute little tank game. It appeared under many different names, but simply involved two (or sometimes more) ...

The game that kick-started the 3D gaming revolution in the early nineties was Wolfenstein 3D, a highly popular title that saw the player attempting to escape from and destroy Castle Wolfenstein, where all sorts of weird ...

I've had this game since before Christmas, but tearing myself away from it to write these words has been something of a problem. Half-life is, you see, not your average run-of-the-mill 3D action shoot-em-up. Not by ...

This is not the first Duke Nukem game for the PlayStation. Duke actually started life on the PC in 1995. A rough, no compromise action type of bloke, he was about as un-PC as you could ...

"Tits". There, I've said it. Now I don't have to beat around the bush with phrases such as 'Her two most distinct assets' or 'Her pneumatic appeal'. Because Lara Croft is back. Again. As if two ...

There are times when playing 3D action games can be more of a chore than a pleasure. It's great to immerse yourself in a fantasy world where the rules of our universe no longer apply, but ...