Category Archives: Video Game Reviews

The third episode in Telltale’s Monkey Island revival delivers more lovingly crafted Threepwood antics, even if the plot takes a back seat this time round.

Chapter 2 of Threepwood’s episodic exploits is more expansive and more satisfying than the first, even if it ultimately feels like the second dish in a prolonged five course meal.

When Nintendo first debuted the Wii’s innovative technology at E3, the internet swiftly burgeoned with articles and forum contributions speculating on ways in which the novel Wiimote and nunchuk controller could reinvent how we played everything from platform games to first-person shooters. Some fantasised a Jedi simulator complete with motion-sensitive lightsaber duals, while others anticipated […]

The latest instalment in this grand strategy series will please wargame enthusiasts… but alienate pretty much everyone else.

Simply put, Batman Arkham Asylum is the best superhero videogame ever made. Why are so many comic book videogames substandard? As a staunch comic geek first and a videogame enthusiast a very close second, I often find it baffling that so little effort is put into superhero or comic-based games. Part of this is perhaps […]

Majesty 2 provides intricate and engrossing real-time strategy and a depreciative sense of humour frequently bordering on barmy.