Virtua Fighter 5

Armored Core: Formula Front - Extreme Battle

Sky Odyssey

Drakengard 2

The story of Drakengard 2 is Drakengard-lite: not very entertaining, but better for you.

One of my favourite movie moments is in Idle Hands where the possessed protagonist tells his best friend "I don't want to kill you!", to which the friend replies "Then don't!" Playing Drakengard 2 ma... Read Full Review

Heavenly Sword

Heavenly Sword is an intense showcase for your PS3 that ends all too soon, leaving you begging for more.

For years now, video games have had to straddle the line between pure interactive engagement of the olden days' platformers and the passive entertainment society craves at the movie theatres. I would hazard a guess that... Read Full Review

Armored Core: Formula Front

An AC game that lets you program and watch your own clash of the titans? Great idea! Too bad it lacks soul.

I've been an Armored Core fan since the beginning of the series, so imagine my excitement when I heard that the mech combat series was coming to the PSP. For years I've been used to AC games getting generally lukewarm t... Read Full Review

Resistance: Fall of Man

A shooter that entertains a devout strategy and RPG gamer for weeks on end can't be all bad.

In roughly 25 years of video-gaming I've been hooked on exactly 4 FPS games: Genetic Species (way back on the Amiga), Half-Life, the original Red Faction, and now, Resistance: Fall of Man. Needless to say, shooters aren... Read Full Review

The Sky Odyssey

You don't need explosions to keep the action intense. Sky Odyssey is a beautiful game from days long gone.

When I first bought my PS2 in 2000 I was desperate for a fun game that wasn't a PSOne title running on backwards compatibility. Sky Odyssey was one of the few that I got my hands on, and it is the single oldest PS2 titl... Read Full Review

Fable: The Lost Chapters

Fable will always serve to remind what a truly good RPG really is. Sadly, Fable isn't that RPG.

There are two major ways to approach an RPG: the first, and most common that I've seen in Japanese RPGs, is a story-driven game where the characters are pre-defined and the player takes on a role similar to the audience ... Read Full Review

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII fans should check this out, but action gamers can find better entertainment elsewhere.

When I first heard Square-Enix was making a game based on Vincent Valentine from FFVII, and that it would be a TPS action/adventure game, I didn't know exactly where to set my expectations. On the one hand, action games... Read Full Review

Virtua Fighter 5

Virtua Fighter 5 is the best of the series, but it's still not much of an improvement over the stunning VF4:Evolution.

Virtua Fighter 4 and VF4:Evolution both kept me busy for night after night on my PS2, and there's no doubt that VF5 is more polished and offers (generally) more, yet I'm left with the feeling that it is more of an upgrad... Read Full Review