There's a snobbery around console conversions to the PC and, as anyone who's played Halo 2 on the PC will attest, it isn't always undeserved. The Windows version of Gears of War, however, is an exception, not only because its graphics and gameplay haven't...

A much-hyped console epic comes to the PC, but unlike others that have made the move this deserves its press.

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games still don't tick everyone's boxes. Some of us tire too quickly of all those "Hack six boars to pieces and bring back their hearts" quests, while others find the combat - click to target, click to slash, press 3 to...

The man behind Ultima tries to reinvent the online RPG and partially succeeds with this robust MMO.

Originally slated for release in 2006, the first version of TimeShift floundered, with publisher Sierra believing the title wouldn't compete against Unreal Tournament 3 and BioShock. A complete redesign followed to ensure the game could stand alongside th...

An interesting idea shoe-horned into a very generic first-person shooter.

There's been a recent trend for developers to radically overhaul sequels; the move away from World War II FPS combat to pseudo-squad-based modern warfare in Call of Duty 4 is a case in point. So Epic Games - the developer behind Unreal Tournament - has go...

By not attempting to buck any trends, Epic has come up with a fine addition to the UT franchise.

Having topped the league of football management sims for almost as long as Sir Alex has been terrorising the touchline at Old Trafford, Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2008 returns to defend its title once more. With the competition wearing thinner...

Still head and shoulders above its football management sim rivals, but no great advance on last year's effort.

It's possible, following a year's worth of games such as Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2, that gamers might be slightly sceptical about yet another modern, realistic first-person shooter. After all, modern war doesn't afford the gravity-defying possibi...

Absolutely brilliant. COD4 looks superb, plays amazingly and is utterly, hopelessly, sleep-deprivingly engrossing.

Quite apart from being the long-awaited sequel to Far Cry, Crysis is also the poster child for DirectX 10: it's the first game to appear that's been designed from scratch with DirectX 10, and it looks simply amazing. But before we start eulogising about t...

Stunning visuals and great gameplay make Crysis an excellent buy. But you might need a new PC, too.

A few things are guaranteed every year. The trains will stop running when it gets too hot/cold/wet, the England football team will come agonisingly close to glory and EA Sports will put out yet another iteration of its legendary FIFA franchise.

Graphics are a little disappointing, but die-hard fans will remain as true to FIFA 08 as they are to the beautiful game.

Frighteningly, it's getting less difficult to imagine a world in which the Cold War never ended, the Berlin Wall never fell, and Russia embarked on a disastrous war with NATO forces in Europe. Still, in World in Conflict, the year is 1989, not 2007, and t...

The Russians are coming! Cold War paranoia makes a mighty real-time strategy game.

Poor old Medal of Honor. The game that kicked off the historical World War II FPS has been languishing in the doldrums for years, watching sadly while other series steal its thunder. The old Saving Private Ryan set-pieces have become tired clich's, and th...

The original World War II shooter is reborn as a free-flowing action game to die for.