Category: Video Game Reviews
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Blood Bowl PC Review
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This fun but faithful adaptation of the fantasy football board game offers an abundance of team customisation options, strategic approaches and multiplayer facilities. Blood Bowl has always held a special place in my heart, yet to this day I still cannot fathom why. I’ve always loathed team sports, particularly those involving spherical or elliptical objects,…
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Free Realms PC Review
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Free Realms offers a great deal of minigames and social facilities, whether or not you choose to reach for your wallet.
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Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: ‘Launch of the Screaming Narwhal’ PC Review
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Guybrush Threepwood’s return maintains the series’ trademark humour and charm, but ‘Launch of the Screaming Narwhal’ feels like more like a teaser than an episode in its own right.
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The King of Fighters ‘98 Ultimate Match Xbox Live Review
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Look beyond this game’s ugly visuals and you’ll find its fighting spirit is still strong after ten years. Back in 1998, superhuman pugilism was a far more pixelated affair. Punch-ups would require that opponents face each other along a straight line, while parallax scrolling was a positively jaw-dropping spectacle. Back then there was also no…
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Champions Online PC Review
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Champions Online offers action-packed combat exhaustive character creation tools and brilliant visuals in a polished, humour-laden package. Without exception, anyone who’s ever been bitten by the comic book bug will have at some time imagined what it would be like to possess super powers. We’ve all fantasised about gripping the teacher or boss in a…
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NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits Wii Review
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A stunning journey through mythological Greece, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits fully showcases the Wii’s graphical and motion-control capabilities.
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Cocoto Platform Jumper Wii Review
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An inexpensive but challenging little platformer that conjures the punishing gameplay of yesteryear.
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Crazy Machines 2 Complete PC Review
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Those ingenious Rube Goldberg puzzles are back in Crazy Machines 2 Complete, the spiritual successor to the popular 90s series The Incredible Machine. When I reviewed the first Crazy Machines I was wowed by the game’s ingenious puzzles and realistic physics, but found that it often required a higher intellect than my feeble noggin will…