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The massively multiplayer online market is without doubt bigger than ever right now, so to stand out from the crowd a new title has to be something a little bit special. Aion looks fantastic, but unfortunately falls short in almost every other area.
We recently looked at Dante’s Infero, a promising videogame adaptation of a famous poem. Metro 2033 however is based on a whole book, albeit a russian one which you’ve probably never heard of. It’s looking good - a postapocalyptic first-person-shooter title awaits.
The Guitar Hero games are great fun to most people, but what if you don’t like playing the guitar? You need not feel left out any longer, as Band Hero is now with us and brings musical fun to a whole new target audience.
If you never played the original BioShock you could be forgiven for taking one look and wondering what all the fuss is about - but if you did play it, you’ll know better! Though at first glimpse it may appear an average title, the reality is it’s anything but average - and BioShock 2 is now fast approaching.
Dante Alighieri, the lead character in EA’s hugely promising brawl-em-up title is what we action game junkies would simply call a Badass! That will undoubtedly help him as he aims to navigate the nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno.
At least one hundred years after the events of Phantom Hourglass, and Link is about to receive his license, from Princess Zelda herself, to become an official engineer for the royal railroads. Just in time to spoil his graduation from the engineering apprenticeship, Link learns that all is not well in Hyrule (go figure). Read the rest of this entry →
Action adventure titles nowadays tend to fall flat on their target audience if they lack a good, deep storyline to use as a foundation for the events that occur in-game, but Ninja Blade defies this as it proves a whole lot of fun, despite lacking any real depth at all.
It’s already dominating pre-order charts everywhere you look, so it’s going to be huge regardless of how the game turns out - but thankfully everything we’ve seen points to God of War III being a truly epic game when it hits stores next month.
When you think of football games, you will immediately think of the Madden NFL series, but developers NaturalMotion intend to have their say in the genre with their forthcoming football-with-a-twist title, Backbreaker.
