Star Control

Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics

Quake 4 (Special Edition)

Borderlands

Hour of Victory

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Quake

Quake II

Quake III Arena

SimCity 3000

Total Annihilation

Duke Nukem Forever

Bulletstorm

Monday Night Combat

Gears of War

BlackSite: Area 51

Painkiller

Borderlands

The Ball (2010)

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

BioShock 2

RAGE

Shooter fans should not skip this game... but wait for a price drop and the flaws become much easier to swallow.

The Good: For all the heat the game has taken about pop-in textures, I must say that the issue has been satisfactorily resolved for the PC version, provided you're running a reasonably powerful system. It's true that up... Read Full Review

Duke Nukem Forever

If this were out two years ago, the score would be a half point higher

I'd played the demo and had concerns of my own and while I waited patiently for the North American full version of Duke Nukem Forever to launch, the rest of the world began reacting strongly to the game Gearbox Softw... Read Full Review

Bulletstorm

The creative mayhem is great... while it lasts. But a fine first start for a potentially solid series.

Bulletstorm's pre-release hype continuously called out two things: dick-humour and how unbelievably fun it is to kill with skill. And to some degree they have delivered on both. We're all supposed to wink knowingly whene... Read Full Review

Monday Night Combat

A fun and interesting combination of genres but a few more game modes wouldn't hurt.

Team Fortress 2 is inevitably the first comparison everyone makes when they see Monday Night Combat and in terms of character design, that's probably not far from the mark. The truth is though that other than classes, yo... Read Full Review

Gears of War

There are a few problems, but there's a tremendous amount of fun stuff here and it's all beautifully done.

Having never played the Xbox 360 version of Gears, I have no basis on which to recommend the PC version to a current owner of the original. I can, however, say that Gears of War qualifies as a must-purchase if you don't ... Read Full Review

BlackSite: Area 51

For every thrilling moment in the singleplayer game there are two that are lacking.

Midway's Area 51 games have been around in many forms over the years, beginning with the arcade light-gun variety and most recently the first-person-shooter genre. The entire series takes its inspiration from the famous ... Read Full Review

Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

Long and strong; Knoxx adds humour and loads of much-needed goodies and content to the base game.

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx opens up in a new part of Pandora, home to several old friends and a few new enemies. Atlas Corporation is understandably upset with you for your efficient dismantling of their Crimson ... Read Full Review

The Ball (2010)

Solid value, extraordinary environments, and satisfying fun

While on an archaeological expedition in Mexico, you experience a bit of bad luck and fall into a hole in the side of a volcano. Fortunately, you're not injured. Unfortunately, and inexplicably your team doesn't have a r... Read Full Review

Unreal Tournament III

UT3 delivers in gameplay big, but it's currently mired down in a boatload of functionality issues.

Unreal Tournament 3 is about redemption. No, not that of the main protagonist from the singleplayer story, Reaper, but about that of Epic Games' biggest title that is not called Gears of War. Unreal Tournament 2003's int... Read Full Review

Unreal Anthology

Three outstanding games and a couple not-so-great. A few technical missteps mar an otherwise outstanding package.

A value package, such as this, might appeal to someone with merely a passing curiosity towards a game series. The second target of this anthology is the collector that absolutely must have each and every Epic offering em... Read Full Review

Killing Floor

An addictive survival game with awesome guns and a great price

I spent a good deal of time attempting to form a clever synopsis of the story arc of Killing Floor; an account of mutant clones belched forth onto the streets of London from the bowels of Horzine's Biotech labs. Then I r... Read Full Review

BioShock 2

Not as solid as the first, but a worthy sequel with some good ideas.

2007's BioShock sailed comfortably to Game of the Year status for many media outlets, despite the cries in vain by some that it had all but abandoned its System Shock roots. Stellar sales and critical acclaim solidified ... Read Full Review

Borderlands

It's hard not to recommend the game for anyone at all interested in the genre.

Taking the co-op loot-fest and light role-playing elements popularized by Diablo and mixing it with the first-person shooter, Gearbox is breaking new ground by piecing together familiar elements in a new way. Likewise th... Read Full Review

Batman: Arkham Asylum

This game's the real deal

Though Batman Arkham Asylum is only Rocksteady's second effort as a developer, it's clear that they're headed in the right direction, making smart gameplay choices with the Caped Crusader. Non-fans are just as likely to ... Read Full Review

Unmechanical

A short but highly competent, charming, and beautiful physics puzzler

I didn't know what to expect from Unmechanical going in and I can honestly say, having wrapped it up in just a little over three hours I really don't have any more of an idea what it's about. It didn't ruin the game for ... Read Full Review

Quake 4

The singleplayer isn't great, but captures the spirit of Quake - though the multiplayer is lacking.

Raven managed to take the look and feel of Quake 2 and update it with the DOOM 3 engine. The environments are painstakingly detailed (only a few obvious build errors), the character design is very good, and the sounds we... Read Full Review