Duke Nukem Forever took 14 years to arrive between the time it was originally announced in April 1997 by 3D Realms, and was finally released in 2011 by Gearbox Software. It finally put years of message board speculation to rest, for which we'll be grateful, but you have to seriously question whether all the time, effort and money invested by 3D Realms, Gearbox, publishers … [Read more...]
Homefront Review: 6/10
Homefront was released by THQ early in 2011, with a much-publicised script by John Millius, the co-writer of Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry, and director of Red Dawn. And it's a good time to catch up on the interesting but flawed original as not only is a sequel due shortly, but a lower price point certainly helps to justify trying it. Despite mixed reviews at launch, it … [Read more...]
Gotham City Impostors Review 7/10
If you're bored by Battlefield and letting the Call of Duty go to answerphone, then you might really appreciate Gotham City Impostors, a downloadable FPS game for the Xbox 360, Playstation and PC. It focuses on multiplayer, with just three game modes and a single-player challenge game type, but is potentially all the better for it. The idea behind the game is as simple as it … [Read more...]
Battlefield 3 Open Beta Demo – First Impressions
As reported yesterday, the Battlefield 3 Open Beta went live but many people, including our own Kalps, spent the evening trying to get unsuccessfully into a game. Well, tonight was my turn to try, and having spent much of the past 18 months or so watching my stats disappear and reappear each time I played Battlefield: Bad Company 2, I was probably slightly more prepared … [Read more...]
Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC – First Impressions
Annihilation, the third DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, is now available on Xbox Live, and we've been indulging in some Team Deathmatch to give you our first impressions. Overall the response to Annihilation is pretty favourable, and it's possibly the best of the three Black Ops Map Packs. There's more variation in the layouts, and as a result, the gameplay seems … [Read more...]
Call of Duty Black Ops Escalation Multiplayer Maps First Impressions
So we've had the first day of the Escalation DLC pack for Call of Duty Black Ops, containing four new multiplayer maps: Hotel, Stockpile, Zoo and Convoy - was it worth the wait and the money? The short answer is yes. Whereas the First Strike pack was very much a continuation of the small Team Deathmatch maps which seem to personify Black Ops, particularly Kowloon and … [Read more...]