Star Wars games have been a mixed bunch, ranging from the lamentably mediocre to the engrossingly spectacular, so it was with some trepidation that fans have been anticipating the new tie-in to Episode III, the last ...

Tom Clancy's special operations agent Sam Fisher has become as much of a gaming icon as Lara Croft and Sonic the Hedgehog. The mixture of cool and moody graphics, allied to a cool and moody hero ...

It's perhaps a lazy way to open a review of a game based on a movie by stating the following, but here goes anyway. Games based on movies are rarely any good. Whilst occasionally the odd ...

What do you get if you take Half Life, revamp the graphics, add vehicles and a more grand, cinematic storyline, and mix in some Big Brother and War of the Worlds ambience? We'll give you a ...

Have you ever known the sheer panic invoked by the hiss of a cacodemon spawning behind you, or the pain of a shower of multiple imp fireballs? Such were the creatures of Hell summoned by the ...

We've got some sympathy for Vivendi Universal. Admittedly, for years its been behind some really quite insipid tie-in games to the various movies in the Universal Pictures archive, yet with last year's Hulk, the company delivered ...

Stealth gaming seems to be one of the growth areas these days, ever since the Thief series kicked off and the first Splinter Cell game introduced the intrepid solo operative Sam Fisher, recruited by the National ...

First, let's get the plot of this first-person shooter out of the way. Charter boat owner Jack Carver is offered a considerable amount of money by sultry journalist Valerie Constantine to take her to an uncharted ...

There's always a suspicion, once publishers start releasing updated versions of products on an annual basis with just the year name changing in the title, that it's just an excuse to slightly tart up last year's ...

The Legacy of Kain series has now reached its fifth incarnation; fans of the characters will be waiting to see if various questions about the storyline are finally answered, while newcomers will be scratching their heads ...

Computer game developers have always seen a hit movie as a possible cash cow and often coding begins the moment the film is in production. Unfortunately, the usual 2-3 year period that it takes most games ...

Up until now, if you mentioned the phrase 'World War Two combat game', there were only two possible responses - Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942. But now, thanks to Activision, there's a new kid on ...

Usually the thought of a game franchise based on a movie is enough to have you running screaming for the hills, but EA made such a good attempt at translating the second of the Tolkien trilogy ...

The common prediction when Max Payne shot onto the scene back in 2001 was that it would spawn a slate of imitators, not least for its slo-mo bullet time gimmick, itself a loving testament to the ...

This isn't going to be the only review of Dredd vs Death to conclude that developer Rebellion has created the best Judge Dredd game ever. Sadly, despite seemingly offering golden potential to developers in the past, ...

A sign of the times, perhaps? When you open the box for Tron 2.0, you're immediately faced with blatant ads for Nvidia and Intel, insinuating that to get the best of the game you need to ...

Oft delayed. Beset by secrecy. Over two years in development. But has the latest adventure for Lara Croft been worth the wait? No, frankly. Falling well short of what fans of the franchise had the right ...

As soon as it became clear that gamers were willing to pay a tenner a month to play in a persistent online world, there has been rather a glut of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Fair ...

In spite of all the flaws that stare you in the face after an hour or two of playing Enter The Matrix, the one criticism you can't level at it is that it was rushed. Having ...

We like first person shooters, particularly when there are decent weapons involved. The big question is whether you choose an FPS that is lifelike (e.g. Medal of Honor) or artificial (e.g. Quake 3). Delta Force Black ...