The Operative: No One Lives Forever

SAS: Secure Tomorrow

The Wheel of Time (1999)

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Submarine Commander

Unreal Tournament 2004

Dead Space

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead

Guild Wars

Mirror's Edge

Call of Duty

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader

Sacred

Ford Racing

Ultima I

The Duel: Test Drive II

Test Drive: Off-Road 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Only GSC Game World can make the world's worst man made disaster into a magical place of discovery.

* Note - the review is based on the game Stalker + the Stalker Complete Mod 2009 - why I included this is because the mod is free to download. Gameplay: 9 (with the Stalker Complete mod it basically cleaned up all the... Read Full Review

Call of Duty: United Offensive

The single player is a joke - the multiplayer is where it's at.

Gameplay: 5 (if you're not into multiplayer then forget it) Graphics: 6 (the Quake 3 engine is starting to show its age still the particle effects are really nice; so start blowing things up) Sounds: 8 (still intense,... Read Full Review

Global Ops: Commando Libya

It's a cover-based shooter that...ah...it's got achievements you know...24 of them.

Gameplay: 5 (tiresome plot however good pacing and decent controls) Graphics: 7 (overall good however the character models need a lot of improvement) Sounds: 5 (reasonable musical scores and ambience sounds however ext... Read Full Review

Guild Wars (Special Edition)

Guild Wars is not a true MMO in its purest sense, however it's a game built for the player in mind.

Arguably Ultima Online set the tone for the 'massively multiplayer online' experience – or better known as MMO. You know, getting many players online with an ever changing world where the players can dictate the directio... Read Full Review

Codename: Nina - Global Terrorism Strike Force

Expect nothing and you'll won't be disappointed.

Gameplay: 3 (at least there are no bugs) Graphics: 2 Sounds: 2 Value: 3 (it's cheap to buy but takes up hard drive space) Tilt: 4 (it got me going till the end) Actual score 3.1 There are promises abound: governm... Read Full Review

Beach-Head

Beach Head earmarked a new evolution to the tactical war games genre as it's entirely action-orientated.

Note: This review is based on the Atari XL version and not the C64. Gameplay: 8 (written entirely by machine language / five different missions to test a variety of skills) Graphics: 8 (colourful and vibrant / detail... Read Full Review

Max Payne

Max Payne: The Art of Storytelling.

Gameplay: 9 (bullet time / cinematic death scenes / auto-adjust difficulty level / noir-like presentation however the AI can be extremely stupid) Graphics: 9 (beautiful yet gloomy however you need a powerful PC to view ... Read Full Review

Half-Life

Only in Half Life that among the chaos your fellow scientists still have time to say 'Hi' before running away.

Gameplay 9 Graphics 9 Sounds 8 Value 10 Tilt 9 (Actual Score 9.1) Valve; an unknown developer company entering an ever choking FPS world particularly in the 'golden year' of 1998 PC gaming is definitely a dauntin... Read Full Review

Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes

A decent turned-based game with a healthy dose of obsession.

Gameplay: 7 (key customisation needs more options / need to be able to control all characters individually / obsession rating is certainly the highlight of the game) Graphics: 8 (pretty for an indie game / adding shadow... Read Full Review

Bulletstorm

If you are a fan of no-nonsense, come-get-some brutality this is your smorgasbord. There's plenty to go around.

Gameplay: 8 (tonnes of skillshots to unleash / fast and furious / too easy for veteran FPS though) Graphics: 10 (so pretty you can carve it) Sounds: 9 (earth shaking) Value: 6 (a little short to pay full price / onlin... Read Full Review

The Longest Journey

An unforgettable journey of hope and self-sacrifice.

I have had endless discussions of what makes a memorable game. Is it the graphics, the game play, the sounds? Most arrived to the conclusion that graphics is the most important then game play. I felt that these definitel... Read Full Review

Mass Effect

Shepard, you are one of a kind.

* This review is based on the veteran difficulty setting * Gameplay: 8 (inventory management is lousy / combat can be intimating / slow start however once in space it's full throttle) Graphics: 8 (bland in some areas... Read Full Review

Archon: The Light and the Dark (5.25" Disk)

Chess pumped on Steroids = Archon.

Clause: I'm basing this review as if the game was running under the Atari 600XL computer and not the Commodore. Why? Because I feel that the Atari is far superior to the Commodore and the game itself was originally writt... Read Full Review

The History Channel: Civil War - A Nation Divided

Falls short in every aspect. Shame though.

I was in a frame of mind for a game that simulates the American Civil War and provides educational value (what was I thinking?). When I saw this FPS game History Channel: Civil War it was like all my dreams come true. We... Read Full Review

Hardball!

Harball! is now in its 5th edition and this is the game that started it all!

NB: This review is based on the Atari XL series and not the C64. Let's face it: Sports sims are hard to make. There are so many 'human' elements to program that any console games will have troubles replicating it. Now... Read Full Review

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Sam Fisher is the Chuck Norris of stealth games...getting the job done whilst looking extremely cool.

Gameplay: 9 (only grip is the somewhat dumb AI) Graphics: 10 (minor clipping issues however visually spectacular with excellent lighting effects – a masterpiece) Sounds: 8 (the voice of Sam Fisher is a little too over-... Read Full Review

Diablo II

Hail to you champion…

Gameplay 9 (basing on the 1.12 patch) Graphics 8 Sounds 10 Value 10 Tilt 10 There’s one thing certain in life is that Diablo’s success is like a runaway horse; that is anyone who touched this game will... Read Full Review

Velvet Assassin

A heart-pounding,emotional yet mature ride during the darker times of WW2.

Gameplay: 8 (some heart-pounding moments / immersive yet horrific world / docile AI / responsive controls / not much variety in assassination attempts) Graphics: 9 (sepia / great environment effects like fog and lightin... Read Full Review

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase

Gorilla Systems DS version couldn’t live up to the standards as the novel and film did.

Gameplay: 4 Graphics: 6 Sounds: 3 Value: 2 Tilt: 4 Actual score: 3.7 Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase is the third DS title in the Nancy Drew series. Yet, the game is based on the famous novel by the same name wh... Read Full Review

Starship Troopers

Bugs sir - millions of them. They just keep coming!

Starship Troopers is pretty much a failsafe product. Killing a swarm of bugs without any morale issues...well minimal ethical issues anyway is always a good thing. Originally the story started out as a novel in the late ... Read Full Review