Despite what videogames have told us in the past, World War II wasn't won with a bolt action rifle wielded by an invincible Hollywood action hero

does an admirable job of expressing a range of emotions through the story and characters in the cinematics, then capturing them back through the player as they witness the degrading psyche of series-protagonist Sergeant Matt Baker. A pragmatic approach to...

After my abysmal experience with Time Crisis 4 on the PS3, I was looking forward to some good old PC-based action games, with Iron Man being at the front of the queue. I know from past experience that games coinciding with the release of blockbuster movie...

The storyline won't come as a surprise to anyone that has seen the movie, or, even better, read the comics. You play the role of Tony Stark, who creates the Iron Man suit to fight the bad guys. The game relies heavily on the fact that you've seen the film...

Newsflash! There was more than one game (you know which one I'm talking about, Grand Theft something, something) released this month. I picked the shorter straw and ended up reviewing Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6:Vegas 2

The original R6:Vegas was one of my favourite games last year, and I was looking forward to again clearing Las Vegas of the unbelievably well equipped terrorists out to reduce Sin City to a pile of rubble. This time around though, the action has moved fro...

I'm not an avid console gamer, so the hype surrounding the original release of Assassin's Creed passed me by. With no expectations as a result, the PC version on review here absolutely blew me away

Assassin's Creed managed to find a way through this trap, giving the game a true PC feel

Crysisis one of those titles that will forever define video games, just like the original Far Cry did before it. It received a fair amount of hype before its release, and it seems to have answered that hype with stunning looks and intelligent gameplay

Aside from the usual array of weapons, you also have the Nano suit at your disposal. The suit can give you short burst abilities, like becoming nearly invisible, extra strong, extra fast or have improved armour. Switching between the abilities soon become...

There areonly two possible reasons why you wouldn't want to drop this magazine right now, and run out and pick up the Orange Box. One is that you already have it, and the other is that you have some sort of strange, clinical disorder which makes you aller...

took our breath away and in the years following, Valve has released episodic content for the popular shooter

Unlike games that depend on finesse and familiarity with the race tracks, DiRT is centered around intricate courses and worthy opponents that force you to constantly adapt. Mud, water, rocks and just about anything you'd expect in an off-road race make th...

sleek interface, Career mode lets you start from the ground up; harnessing skills and acquiring and upgrading cars. Most races pair you with a navigator who prepares you for the twists and turns of the course - though sometimes, you just wish he'd shut up...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 continues the evolutionary approach EA takes with their sports titles, adding a smattering of new features, improving the graphics, but otherwise leaving well enough alone

Gameplay hasn't changed much (it's golf after all…there's not much to change). Plenty of fun side games are once again on offer but the real meat of the game remains the PGA Tour itself. It's where you build your players stats up (the game is laden with s

Microsoft fully demonstrated the depths of their pockets during the marketing blitz that surrounded the release of Halo 3. There were endless TV spots, untold banner ad campaigns dotted across the internet and tonnes of Halo 3 branded loot doing the round...

Multiplayer introduces a raft of interesting variations on a theme and I'm particularly sold on co-operative play with a friend over Xbox Live during the single player campaign. Having a human player at your side instead of an AI character (no matter how...

Scanning software Scanners may have fallen out of vogue due to the dominance of digital cameras and email, but they are still the best means of inputting hard-copy documents. Nuance's PaperPort 11.0 Professional is aimed at making it easier to manage and...

It allows the creation and sharing of PDFs and includes basic OCR (optical character recognition), enhancement software and search technology to locate and organise files, email and web pages