Star Wars: Republic Commando

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

A bad sequel to a great game

This is one of the early examples of Ubisoft milking a game. It adds nothing. It's a glorified expansion pack, and not a particularly good one.The level design compared to the original is largely flat, boring out-door e... Read Full Review

Street Fighter Zero 3

Good MP, terrible SP

I don't think I've ever played a game with such cheap game design. Even SNK games, notorious for cheap AI doesn't even approach the stuff in this game. - AI that has no charge- AI that has a full-screen 1 hit kill no wa... Read Full Review

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Store Page Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

A wonderful game I enjoyed my time with. It's relativity short and simple, but that's also arguably part of it's appeal, was never overwhelmed or felt repetition kicking in as with so many games these days.Unlike earlier... Read Full Review

Phantasy Star

Phantasy Star Gaiden

Pretty bad

Phantasy Star was an incredibly impressive game. Given it's on a handheld some limitations were to expected, but almost all of the problems have nothing to do with it.1. The encounter rate is insane. Phantasy Star would... Read Full Review

Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers

High price

Main point of contention is obviously the price, I picked mine up for £34.99 for a digital code, and it's still pretty dam high, this was a £19.99 game at most, they didn't add enough to justify the price. P... Read Full Review

Kingpin: Life of Crime

Foget bout it.

Kingpin was a game with big ambitions, that didn't quite meld together. Not quite FPS, not quite immersion sim, it sits somewhere in sits decidedly in the middle to be declares neither. A hub world, but still wholly line... Read Full Review

Castlevania Legends

Eh

Difficulty principle comes from enemies bum rushing you in deliberately obtuse directions where <--> with no up whip cannot hit. In some cases there is no ability to avoid them without learning the pattern of a lev... Read Full Review

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi

Very hard.

Shadow Dancer is for all intents and purposes a remake of the first Shinobi. The mechanics carry over, save hostages, fire off stars, follow the bosses patterns (the first a direct copy paste of the original games), use ... Read Full Review

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Sonic Bore: The Fartsome Menace

Team Sonic once again waves their incompetence in fans faces.Sonic The Hedgehog 4, an official sequel to the original classic series... back in simpler times, when the game used a basic platforming formula built on momen... Read Full Review

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Sonic Generations

Not as good as I remembered

Probably the best of the 3D Sonic, but I guess that isn't excavate a good sell.It has some nice ideas, offering both 2D and 3D with each level having multiple paths to encourage replay value and side quests akin to Mario... Read Full Review

Sonic Generations

Sonic: Lost World

In a Galaxy, far far, extremely far away

SoHey guys, we don't know how to pin down basic mechanics, i've got a great idea.Let's add as many as possible!Sonic use to just naturally speed up with momentum. Let's make it so you have to hold down an extra button to... Read Full Review

The Evil Within

Evil Indibin

ImpressionsWithin the opening 20 minutes of Resident Evil 4 the player fends off masses of zombies in an open ended village, an explosive opening that merely acts as a taster for the rest of the game.Within the first 20 ... Read Full Review

A Hat in Time

Brilliant Incredible Life Changing Masterpeice The Best Metal Gear Solid ever

Quick impression.Not exactly the biggest fan of 3D platforms, this game really grabbed my attention though and hasn't stopped pouring liters entertainment goodness into my gullet.Very much like Mario 64 stages are replay... Read Full Review

A Hat in Time

Street Fighter V

What's exists is good, but what exists is little

The core game is good and if all you care about is MP, you'll enjoy it.If you basically care about anything else, good luck, because almost nothing exists.They patched in a story-mode, which is fun. If dumb. But that was... Read Full Review

Half-Life: Opposing Force

High quility, but not quite Half-Life

Replaying this it's not quite as great as I remember. Back to back with Half-Life it quickly becomes apparent what the better game is.Start with the positives though. It has a meaty 9-10 hour campaign, longer than most f... Read Full Review

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Not quite Opposing Force, but still pretty good

pos+ The opening 30 minutes are pretty good+ Nice subtle soundtrack and upgraded visuals+ Nice Halflife/Opposing Force easter-eggs+ Mostly solid Halflife gameplayNeg- Continues the bad trend of having enemies spawn behin... Read Full Review

Half-Life: Source

Improved, but also problems

With the HD pack this is basically a remaster. It looks noticeably better. Water is essenailly Halflfie 2's with rag-dolls and cast shadows carrying over. The lighting is improved and third party effects such as Nvidia's... Read Full Review

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future

Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory

Fatal Fury 2

Fatal Fury

Samurai Shodown II

Judge Dredd: Dredd VS Death

Outlaws

DCS World

MDK

I feel top

Many games try very hard to quirky or outlandish, be it's Portals pin point precision writing or Borderlands trite characters equating shouting to zaniness. None though seem to quite so effortlessly succeed as Shiny Ente... Read Full Review

Mega Turrican

Blow up things real good

The original Turrican I/II plays like a mix of Metriod of and Contra. It had Metroids large expansive levels, but with increased intensity reminiscence of more action focused titles. Developed by one man, Manfred Trenz, ... Read Full Review

Super Turrican

Turrican I/II merged into a single package

Super Turrican (not to be confused with Super Turrican on the SNES which is a completely different title from a different developer) may be visually inferior to other console iterations, but where gameplay is concerned i... Read Full Review

Turrican

Impressive but very flawed

Turrican is a game almost solely created by one guy. The fact it stand up to and in some regards best Metroid I/II is very impressive stuff. This however, is a port of the original handled by a different team. While it's... Read Full Review

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Very good, but very flawed

Dragons Dogma, like F.E.A.R. is almost entirely carried by it's incredible combat. Fusing elements from Darksouls, Shadow Of Colossus and Devil May Cry it's a hodgepodge concoction that comes together to create memorabl... Read Full Review

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

An open world game where you hate the open world

The bad1. The engine was terrible.2. The art style was generic with terrible character models3. The voice acting was terrible.4. A boring cult ends the world story. Which it shouldn't be, as half the lore books you pick ... Read Full Review

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Down a steel corridor

Halflife Episode 2 takes note of perceived follies of previous iterations. From the get go, it introduces a fresh environment, introduces new enemies, new characters and propels the story all with larger levels and a not... Read Full Review

Blood (1997)

Grim

Blood for all intents and purposes is a Doom clone. Kill monsters, navigate map, collect keys, find secrets e.t.c..Character wise - it treads a line between Dooms bleak hell on earth and Duke Nukems fourth wall breaking ... Read Full Review