In the last six months, fans of shooter based video games have been in heaven with te recent releases of popular titles including Modern Warfare 2 and like 4 Dead 2. Now, with the New Year insight, another release in the genre had made its way into the market just in time for Christmas stockings.
Games developer DICE is about to release the latest installment in its highly successful Battlefield series, Battlefield 1943. Unlike the games to precede it, 1943 is a multiplayer-only game, and is downloadable directly to console or PC. Following on from the traditions set in previous editions, this game sees you fight out gun battles in [...]
Remember Worms? Since that classic PC game came out more than a decade ago, rivals have been clamoring to create a gaming experience that had the same level of fun, humour and challenging gameplay. Few games have come close to the mark set by Worms, but now it looks like a genuine contender may have [...]
In spite of a fantastic control suite and great technical function, The Conduit lets itself down with boring gameplay and an almost total lack of originality. The Wii console is short of quality first-person shooters, so owners of the Nintendo gaming system were very much looking forward to the release of The Conduit. You play [...]
Red Faction: Guerrilla is probably going to be the best ever game for wannabe demolitionists. If you are not super interested in tearing apart large buildings and then watching them cave to the ground, you are not going to be into this game. Based on Mars, Red Faction: Guerrilla is a follow up to the [...]
Remember Asteroids? For many gamers it was the game that defined a generation and the introduction to the space shooter genre. Since that pioneering effort many games have tried to reach the same heights, with only a few getting part of the way. The latest game to attempt that feat is Gravity Crash, a downloadable [...]
At heart, every gamer loves smashing hordes of zombies to pieces with guns, bombs and whatever else you can get your hands on. That’s the experience that Left 4 Dead delivered, and it is what Left 4 Dead 2 is aiming to do when it hits the stores in November. The new game will feature [...]
The original BioShock was hailed by many as out-and-out gaming genius, and for that reason the sequel has been viewed with apprehension and excitement in equal measure. Will BioShock 2 live up to the greatness of its predecessor, or will it tarnish a reputation? What kind of improvements could possibly be made? The plot is [...]
Homefront is taking the battle to the streets. The streets of Colorado, to be precise, followed by the Western USA and the Pacific coast. In this first-person shooter, North Korea has invaded the USA about 20 years from now. The situation has been brought about by a combination of the global financial crisis and the [...]
Necrovision is a re-imagining of the Great War (WWI) and it certainly doesn’t follow the standard path of historical shooters. Instead, this first-person shooter takes you through smoking battlefields that are filled with a handful of soldiers but also a throng of zombies, ghosts, dragons and other unlikely fiends. The game opts to run a [...]