First of all, we fought in the Second World War (Battlefield 1942). Then we skirmished in Vietnam (Battlefield, er, Vietnam). Then we sampled modern warfare (Battlefield 2). Then we fought with a cat in the back ...

The First Person Shooter genre has been so dominated by World War II and alien invaders that the chance to explore a much under-used scenario is too tempting to pass up. Wild West games in general ...

It's hard to believe that it's been 14 years since Quentin Tarantino's landmark heist movie announced that a striking new talent was on the scene, and even more of a mystery why it's taken this long ...

It's somewhat appropriate that on the front of the box of Dead Rising is a disclaimer to the effect that the game isn't based on the George A Romero zombie movie, Dawn Of The Dead. Slow ...

The word 'pleasure' is often associated with a cruise. The word 'death' isn't, despite the amount of old folks who are generally on board. However, on Outerlight's cruise liners, death is a way of life, as ...

A first-person shooter. With aliens. On a spaceship. Prey's basic premise isn't the most original game idea ever. Perhaps developer Human Head's next game will be an RPG which involves a small amphibian, who is faced ...

Conducting a straw poll of friends and colleagues, the general consensus of the third X-Men film is of a movie that never scaled the heights that the others - particularly the second in the franchise - ...

The most recent, and most ambitious, attempt to bring a character from the pages of the 2000AD comic to gamers' attention didn't really have the desired effect. Dredd vs Death - now available for just a ...

Serial killers. They're not all bad. Personally we're not keen on "Special K" either, so a bit of breakfast bludgeoning is understandable in a way... ahh, wait a minute. Our introduction appears to have perpetrated an ...

We suppose it's inevitable that World War II will bring out the blood-lust in game designers. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942 et al have demonstrated that there's no adrenaline buzz like taking on ...

You'd be hard pushed to find a first-person shooter that takes quite the same delight in wanton destruction that Black does. Within ten minutes of its company, you'll have seen environments shot to shreds around you, ...

Changes have certainly been afoot since we met the Commandos franchise last. Traditionally an isometric-perspective, strategy-come-puzzle game, the franchise has made the switch to first-person, and it's made a far better fist of it than we'd ...

"Aren't girls great? Aside from the gnashing of teeth, comical efforts at reverse parking and an unhealthy interest in the film catalogue of Hugh Grant, at their finest they're a sight to behold." That's the most ...

It was inevitable after the success of such fantasy hits as The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter movies that C. S. Lewis' Christian fable, set in the mythical snowbound land of Narnia, would ...

It's inevitable that when a big film comes out, the adult movie industry will come up with an alternative title. You know all the classics... Shaving Ryan's Privates, Good Will Humping and so forth. However, it's ...

We've got the secret of the kids' book market sussed. The subject matter is irrelevant: whether it's an author writing about talking rabbits, or a main character who's an acne-ridden adolescent wizard, the key is the ...

Many of the key improvements and evolutions of Call Of Duty 2 over the original have been well charted already. We'll come to them shortly. But let's throw convention out of the window and start with ...

Quake 4 is actually the sequel to Quake 2. If you're feeling a little confused, let us explain. Revisionist videogame historians have completely struck Quake 3 from the records, mainly because of the infernally annoying noise ...

Where does Batman begin? We could say that he begins at the soles of his feet, and he ends at the little pointy bat ears on the top of his costume. Or we could get philosophical ...

When Ubisoft launched the fabulous First Person Shooter (FPS) Far Cry in 2004 it did so on a single DVD, rather than the stack of three CDs that you might expect. While this was a welcome ...