It's surprising, looking back, that there wasn't a tie-in game for the first Night At The Museum movie. Okay, it was something of a surprise hit, but still, here was the basis for a potentially useful, ...

Considering the relatively family-friendly certificate gracing the X-men Origins: Wolverine movie, it's something of a surprise to see any hope of similar thinking for the tie-in game decimated in a bloody and gory opening sequence. Fast-forward ...

Making a mockery out of the notion that translating movies into videogames generally results in cheap cash-ins and forgettable titles, Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay worked the other way round. While not directly based ...

While The Godfather II comes with its own familiar cinematic strings, it's impossible to cruise the streets of the Big Apple without humming the Fun Lovin' Criminals song, "King of New York". At least we found ...

Ayumi is a lithe, leaping, treasure hunting girl who plunders ancient ruins for powerful artifacts. Sound familiar? Ah, but you see she's very different to Lara. Ayumi wears far fewer clothes for starters: forget tight shorts, ...

To be fair, it was always going to be quite a job to match the quality of Resident Evil 4. With that game, Capcom rejuvenated both a genre and one of its mainstay franchises, with a ...

While the anticipation of a new Resident Evil game builds up to limited edition consoles, collectors' edition packaging and acres of specialist press attention, Konami's own trip into the world of horror, Silent Hill, has found ...

War and horror go together like Bond and vodka martinis and recently there's been an upsurge in interest in combining ‘ordinary' combat with nightmarish zombies and monsters (compare the recent F.E.A.R. 2 and Shellshock 2: Blood ...

There was a brief period at the beginning of this Millennium when Vietnam was the fashionable place to set your shooting games, as a break from the endless stream from WWII. Platoon, Vietcong, Conflict: Vietnam, Battlefield ...

FEAR 2: Project Origin picks up immediately after the end of the first game. This reviewer has to take the publisher's word for that, having thrown in the towel on the first game around two-thirds through. ...

Painful thumbs. That's the holdover from the heady days of Street Fighter 2 and its many sequels in the early 90s. It was the game where you didn't have to remember a telephone directory of button ...

Let's get some necessities out of the way first. House Of The Dead: Overkill has as potty-mouthed a script as we've heard in a video game in a long time. It's bursting with gore. Its graphics ...

It's nice to see some original thinking in computer gaming, and the concept of an action-adventure based on free running is certainly a novel one. If you're not familiar with free running, it's basically legging it ...

The problem with successful movies is that game developers buy into the franchise and then rush out as many games as they dare based on the original and assume they will make oodles of dosh. Luckily ...

On paper, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is something of a paradoxical treat. On one hand, the union of arguably the planet's rawest and nastiest fighting game franchise (replete with characters such as Sub Zero and ...

Movies and computer games have always had a close tie, but only a handful of games have lived up to more than half the promise of the film originals. The Star Wars franchise in particular has ...

Zombies are very popular these days. Which is surprising: you'd think their general hostile demeanour and lack of table manners would be off-putting. Vampires are big, too, but it's the shambling decaying corpses that Valve has ...

Excluding the time when Nintendo 64 owners got to enjoy the majesty of GoldenEye, James Bond and videogaming haven't really got on. A never-ending collection of lacklustre titles from Electronic Arts seemed content to bastardise the ...

There's no point beating about the bush here: Far Cry 2 is a huge game. The reviewers' notes that came with our test copy describe the game in 20-hour chunks, and it's clear that - contrary ...

The survival horror genre has come a long way from the original Doom and Resident Evil days, with the action frequently moving into space, Hell (Hellgate London, Painkiller) and even under the sea (BioShock). Usually the ...