Gears of War

No Wonder There Wasn't a Demo

No aiming cursor, no ammo counter, no compass or waypoints, a character who sprays ammo all over, and sustains umpteen hits before dieing suddenly, did I mention no armor or health meters? Just goes to prove, great gra... Read Full Review

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The WAY Scripted Shooters Should be made!

Great Sound & outstanding visuals, non stop action, relevant modern storyline. As you've heard, TOO SHORT! Excellent multiplayer content and a wild single player campaign are no excuse for this short a full price t... Read Full Review

Battlefield 2

If you haven't bought this blast fest of fun yet.............DO IT!

Great graffics, great sound, great gameplay, several innovations over early BF games=great fun. The only nit pick is most of the hand held weapons are really weak. You can live with it or just load up one of the many m... Read Full Review

Far Cry 2

Another beautiful game world, hobbled by a very weak story, and repetative side missions.

Like most FPS fans, I was really looking forward to this game. The game world/level design is all it was cracked up to be; combined with excellent ambiant sound and atmosphere. The only fly in this ointment, is the lac... Read Full Review

Crysis Warhead

CryTek Listened So It's Better!

Pay no attention to the complaints about dumbed down GFX. Warhead looks great, and in general, runs better on a wider array of hardware than Crysis did. The storyline has been substantially improved by making the US vs... Read Full Review

Medal of Honor: Airborne

Doesn't know if it's WWII or Bad Sci Fi

The Game Spot review pretty well nails this game. EA and the Devs billing this game as featuring a more open style of game play by allowing you to parachute into the map where you want is nothing more than PR garbage. ... Read Full Review

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

Broken by bugs!

Played in Vista 64 with DX10 enabled this game is beautiful. Unlike others, I enjoyed the Swamp level, and the changes and additions to the Cordon (remember this game predates SHOC) are well done and interesting. You'l... Read Full Review

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Wait for this very poor console port to show in the bargain bin!

If you can get by the BADLY optimised port code (COD4, Crysis, Assassin's Creed, & Stalker all run much smoother at significantly higher GFX settings on my rig), be prepared for some of the the poorest AI (guess Game Spo... Read Full Review

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

A destrucable blast fest you shouldn't miss.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 sets a new standard for interactive i.e. destructible environments. A prominent feature of both it's short but entertaining single player campaign and multiplayer mayhem filled modes. This gam... Read Full Review

Battlefield 2142

EA cruises on the Rep of it Battlefield series with BF 2142.

In a nutshell it's B2 with only two factions, fighting over the warmer lands south of the Eurasian landmass (though oddly enough, only one of the SP maps is NOT in Europe, and there aren't any local forces objecting to a... Read Full Review

Quake 4

Great grqphics combined with the familiar twitch 'n shoot Quake style gameplay

This game looks better than Doom 3 (mostly because you can actually see more than just darkness) and runs smoother too. Add in excellent sound, an adequate storyline, lots of enemies, and that famous twitch and shoot Qu... Read Full Review

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Another great series title with world class GFX & game play, and a Jr High dropout story line.

With one of the most anticipated FPS games of the year, Infinity Ward has managed to simultaneously advanced one step and retreated two. Raspberry Smoothie: GFX, sound and game play remain at the top of the linear ... Read Full Review

Full Spectrum Warrior

Good game; could have been even better with the inclusion of some obviously missing elements.

This is a game I'm pretty much in complete agreement with the GS review on. It's good, but.............there are some missing elements whose absense are hard to explain. At first blush the game seems different and well... Read Full Review

Far Cry 3

Fantasticly beautiful gameworld, combined with great gameplay, hobbled by an adolescently executed story.

The imaginatively titled Far Cry 3 (Hey! If it didn't have a number in it, how would we know which one it is; we're all idiots right?) takes most of the good things from the first two games; large, long sight distance s... Read Full Review

Half-Life 2

Holy bleep! It's as good as they said!

Never played the original; so I have to admit I didn't get what all the Half Life blather was about, from it's legions of fans. Then........there was all the HL2 hype. Yea, yea........been there, heard that! Holy bl... Read Full Review

Call of Duty: United Offensive

CoD After Pumping Iron For Six Months!

Not really a revolution of Call of Duty, but an evolution. And a darn good one! More action, more shooting & blasting, tweaked graphics, and a great sound track. If you liked CoD you'll like CoDUO. Stand by for inc... Read Full Review

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

A good game hampered by uninspired execution and missing features.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, uses a back story of international territorial ambition and rivalry, to engender the games resource (oil) driven plot line. You play a USMC fire team leader of two different units (o... Read Full Review

ArmA II

BIS has raised the bar for it's military sim series, and stumbled leaping it.

ArmA II aims to build on the legacy of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and it's follow on, the original ArmA. Realistic ballistics, LARGE environments, many different ways to complete missions, a complex command s... Read Full Review

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

A very worthwhile expansion for B2, with a greater emphsis on infantry combat.

A great expansion that concentrates more on the infantry/CQB aspects established in previous Battlefield titles. New weapons, new maps, new scenarios, new gizmos. The Special Forces characters get a grappeling hook and... Read Full Review

DOOM 3

This game is great despite some missing design elements!

This game is great despite some missing design elements; id should have included lean left and right moves (id are you listening...game needs a patch), and as it takes place in the 22nd century there certainly should hav... Read Full Review

Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition

Beautiful Game Held Back By The Lowest Common Denominator

Wow! What a great looking game; terrific level design that NAILS the period and locales (I lived in Israel for two years, and have been to Jerusalem's Old City and Acre/Akko). All the wall climbing, roof leaping, and w... Read Full Review

Wolfenstein

id & Raven Software have made a very good sequel in this series; if only they'd left out some of the FPS cliche's.

Wolfenstein '09……….BJ is back; still killin' Nazis and other worldly creatures (sometimes the two being the same!). id Software has farmed W out to Raven Software, purveyors of such family orientated gaming fare as the ... Read Full Review

Resident Evil 5

Another FPS/Action game cruising on it's street cred & tired FPS cliche's

NOTE: This reviewer only played RE 5 through mission 3-2, then uninstalled the game. Resident Evil 5 The Good: Ran smoothly at 1280 x 1024 with everything maxed except AA and motion blur (both disabled) on my year o... Read Full Review

Battlefield Vietnam

A definite improvement on BF 1942, but the game was released to soon, and needs a patch. The ingame music causes significant lag (shut it off & frame rates noticeably improve), & the games inability to support the lates... Read Full Review

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre (White Label)

BHD Team Sabre adds in lush Columbian jungle and very well done Iranian locations to the proven BHD foumula. The graphics are even better than in BHD, and Ritual Entertainment has done a very nice job with the music and... Read Full Review

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

The graphics are killer-amongst the best I've seen. Unlike HALO/Combat Evolved (frame rate killing hardware hog), the game code is correctly written so PoP/SoT runs smoothly with the eye candy dialed up (you know the w... Read Full Review

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

I'd forgotten how much I liked the first MP, until I'd gotten a couple levels into this game. The incredibly detailed environments and massive quantity of interactable or deformable objects just boggles the mind. The g... Read Full Review

Halo: Combat Evolved

This is a review of ONLY the SP portion of the game. Wow, it's hard to believe this thing garnered a 9+ in the GameSpot review. The story is juvenile and over used (agressive aliens who've just about wiped out humanity... Read Full Review

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

A great FPS that finally revives the DF franchise after the very disappointing LW & TFD games. Novalogic has done an excellent job of capturing the flavor of Operation Restore Hope (one can't help but remember the coura... Read Full Review