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Crackdown 2- A Ruffian game.

In 2008 I read a news story on how the studio that made the first Crackdown game had gone bust and that there was no sign of a follow up game, I must admit I was gutted. It seemed that with Crackdown, Realtime Worlds had mastered free roam sandbox gaming by not including a complicated story or taking itself too seriously and had brought the fun back into gaming. So I was eager to play the follow-up this time created by Ruffian games, a studio born from the ashes of Realtime Worlds.

Crackdown 2 takes place 10 years after the original game and is once again set in the fictional Pacific City. After enjoying its longest period of civil harmony and record low crime rates Pacific City is turned on its head by a breakout of a “freak virus” turning ordinary folk into hideous night time dwelling freaks. The city still under Agency control then suffers ano...

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Firstly may I add this is my first ever review of an Xbox game so please be gentle on your comments.

Hope you enjoy the review…


It’s the summer time and it should be the time off the year where most gold fanatics are out playing their local course but being in the UK we don’t get the weather and due to working we don’t get the time! So why not take your golfing game onto the best franchised game that is Tiger Woods; EA sports are the developers of this highly successful game that I have been playing since the old Playstation 2 and have loved them all.

This years edition has been highly anticipated by myself and with every edition there is always something added to tweak the interest for newcomers well this season the newest addition is the introduction of the “Ryder Cup” mode; this ...

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Hello and welcome to my first ever review on GSA. It is, of course, about "2010 FIFA World Cup™ South Africa" from Electronic Arts.
I shall give you an insight into what to expect if you are thinking about either buying or renting this game.
Wish me luck!


GAME MODES
With every FIFA game you have plenty of things to do both offline and online.
These range from messing about in free roam honing your skills to being a pro in the "Captain Your Country" mode. If any of you have played EA's previous football title, FIFA 10, then its very similar to that but with an international feel.
In "2010 FIFA World Cup™ South Africa" you start off as a newcomer who has caught the bosses eye and over a season you must show him you are improving.
You start out in your chosen country's second team. I'd picked E...

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A trickstar/Codemasters release

Well as our World Cup dreams were dying a death, I thought it would be a good time to fire up a cricket title and see if that could lift the gloom. I mean the English Cricket team is doing brilliantly at the moment and its great to see all those English stars like Trott Keiswetter Pieterson Morgan Lumb really flying the flag.

So into my beloved 360 I plonked the disc marked International Cricket 2010. I started it up and then pressed eject. I took a very long hard look at the disc markings and on it was quite clearly International Cricket 2010. So I put it back in the 360 and rebooted only to spend the next half hour sratching my head. The reason?......

Well at first glances and playthrough this is just Ashes 2009 rebadged. Same graphics, same structure, same sound bytes, same game. It was so similar I thought that Codemasters had been bought out...

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This is a racing game that’s adds in a feature I have not seen before....the ability to fundamentally alter the track whilst the race is in progress. Its fast and its furious and it does not have Vin Diesel so it’s already off to a great start.

The developers have some pedigree in the form of the great racer Pure, but this time instead of quad bikes they have gone for a collection of amazingly fast cars and SUVs.

The idea of the game is very Baxter Basics.

There are 3 modes:

Racing.

Here you bomb around a track and try and win the 2 or 3 lap race. The tracks are graphically superb and the sense of speed is magnificent. The twist as I mentioned at the start is where the real fun kicks in though. Every time you Draft (stick close to a car ahead and take advantage of the slipstream), or Drift or J...

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Back in August 2007 2K games introduced us to a world like no other, a giant sprawling city built on the ocean floor. This colossal undertaking was lauded as an underwater utopia free from the despots and hypocrisy rife in all governments around the world. It was a place where man was not restricted by law or rule, a place where anything could and would be accomplished. This city was Rapture.

As it turns out things didn't quite go according to plan, in fact it is safe to say that Rapture turned out to be something of a catastrophic failure as all this unchecked freedom lead only to insanity and violence. Rapture became a dystopian nightmare.

In Rapture 2k games introduced us to one of the most intriguing worlds created to date and at the same time one of the most compelling gaming experience to have ever graced the 360. The game rightly beca...

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Dante is a knight, a veteran of the Crusades, who is told by Death that he is to suffer eternal damnation for his sins committed while at war. Shocked by the fact that he has been deceived, he defeats death, and takes his scythe. He returns home to find his love, Beatrice, has been murdered, and witnesses her soul dragged to Hell by Lucifer....Dante gives chase....

....and so begins Dante's Inferno.

It's important to note that aside from the setting and the character names, this is not a faithful adaption of the first part of Dante Aligieri's epic The Divine Comedy. What we have here is a third-person hack and slash action-adventure.

On the surface, Dante's Inferno is not all that original, but what really is these days? Throughout the game's journey to store shelves there has been a lot of comment on the apparent similarities to Sony's God of War franchise an...

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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger by Arc System Works

There aren't many things more satisfying in life than punching somebody in the face.... except maybe playing as the "boobie lady"...

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a two dimensonal fighting game alá Street Fighter. It was developed as an arcade game in Japan way back in 2008 and ported to the 360 (among other things) in 2009 and has even been nominated for a Spike "Fighting Game of the Year" award.



Everything about the game is smooth and polished. Fourteen extraordinary characters, each with twelve unique palettes for their costumes, battle it out in a number of colourful and imaginative backdrops. The quality of its menus and animations are comparable only to the am...

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You know, the games industry would explode and undo creation if a World War 2 game wasn't released every couple of months so. Luckily for us, Pandemic Studios have served up a few rocks of that Nazi killing gaming crack that we need to keep us going. Of course, this is the same Pandemic who completely ruined their Mercenaries franchise by following up the brilliantly freeform original with a game so buggy and glitched that you knew they wouldn't be around for long. Unluckily for them, this became true with EA doing their 'buy a dev studio, destroy a dev studio' trick. They were given enough time to finish Saboteur though, even if the marketing budget behind the game wouldn't keep Louis Walsh in rentboys past next weekend.

Sticking to what they know, Pandemic have offered up yet another sandbox title here. You play the part of the imaginitively-named Irishman Sean Devlin. H...

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Alan Wake comes from Remedy games who may not have a long back catalogue of titles to their name, but the titles they do have, such as the Max Payne games made a big impact on release. With Alan Wake being such a departure in style and content from the grim noir comic action of Max Payne It is interesting to see how Remedy have coped with the change and also the expectation. There have obviously been problems as Alan Wake has been a long time coming with many delays in its development. However, the question is finally answered as to whether these delays have been for the best, a sales killer, or somewhere in between.



Development changes can clearly be seen from the two above screenshots.

There are obvious influences from Max Payne in th...

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Metro 2033 is a post apocalyptic shooter where your character needs to leave the safety of his underground home to go on a dangerous mission for the greater good. Sound familiar? Well that’s where the similarities to Fallout 3 start and end.



The game is set in Moscow in 2033, following a nuclear war in 2013 the city has been decimated and survivors live underground in the extensive and impressive underground railway system under the city. You play as Artyom, a young man who has spent his whole life living in the underground tunnels as if things weren’t bad enough with the settlers trying to survive whilst fending off mutants, raiders and bandits a new threat has appeared in the form of the mysterious ‘Dark ones’ who seem ...

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I was really looking forward to reviewing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (MUA2) ever since I heard Activision were sending us a copy.

Firstly I must be honest and say that I am not a big Marvel fan and have never read a comic book in my life! But I am a huge gaming fan and have really enjoyed watching all the recent movies. So this review will focus on the gameplay and fun factor rather than any huge back stories or tales how certain characters came to be.

I did worry that I wouldn't know many of the superheroes at all, but soon realised all the familiar favourites were here- Iron man, Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, X-men and even Hulk, I will give you the full list later.

This time around the game focusses on the Civil war storyline from the Marvel multiverse. Basically Nick Fury makes a covet attack...

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Hey guys, DonWeir here with a review of Left 4 Dead 2

Ok, now let’s get down into the hard facts about the game. L4D2 now comes with two new modes along with the original three from the first game, bringing the total to five immense modes, you have:

Campaign – this is where you play as one of the survivors in any level online.

Single player – this is where you play as one of the survivors in any level offline.

Realism – this adds a certain realistic edge to the game by making the zombies harder to kill, the items don’t glow, health becomes a very vital issue and so does ammo when facing the horde. Also in this mode team work is the most vital thing of all when playing hard or expert difficulties.

Versus – this is the same as the previous game with up to eight players taking part as either the survivors or the special ...

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Conviction opens 3 years after the events that brought Splinter Cell: Double Agent to an end. Sam, having been out of the agency's spotlight is tracked down by 'Grim', his former NSA operations manager aka. the voice in his ear, in Valetta, Malta. She seems to have been promoted to a higher rank within Third Echelon, and informs Sam that he's at risk - that a group of hit-men have been hired to take him down and that he must get out of Valetta as soon as possible. Conviction picks up fast, implementing the now-standard first-level in-game tutorial naturally as you progress from your first cover-location to making your first kill. This is quickly despatched as you get to grips with each new skill you learn. What's immediately apparent is the games presentation, diving in and o...

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Prison Break: The Conspiracy Review

Developed by Zootfly

Published by Deep Silver

Review by Ba5sett

Prison Break: The conspiracy is a stealth action game based on the popular television show.

The game is set during the first season of the show in which brilliant structural engineer Michael Scofield gets himself thrown into prison with the intention of breaking himself and his wrongly accused brother Lincoln Burrows out. You play Tom Paxton, an agent for the mysterious ‘Company’ whose task is to observe and report on Scofield’s behavior and try to work out what he is up to.



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SAW - A KONAMI GAME

2004 was the year that the world was first introduced to the character Jigsaw in the horror film Saw. Since then the Saw franchise has established itself as the highest grossing horror film franchise of all time, with a yearly instalment of the films based around the character Jigsaw which are infamous for their ingenious and horrific death scenes. Fast forward to 2009 and we have the first video game based on the Saw franchise, with publishers Konami looking to build on their survival horror back catalogue that has so far been dominated by the Silent Hill franchise.

Saw the videogame is set shortly after the events of the first Saw film, with the player taking the role of Detective David Tapp, the character played by Danny Glover in the first film. You start the game waking up in an abandoned ment...

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 follows on from a string of impressive multiplayer warfare games from Dice. It specifically follows on from Bad Company which was the first Battlefield game to attempt a a singleplayer campaign alongside the expected multiplayer. In doing this it expanded its appeal across the market and put itself directly in competition with the dominant Call of Duty franchise. The obvious question that is often asked is how does it compare with Modern Warfare 2? The answer is not as simple as you might think, which can be seen from the many different answers provided in other reviews and many forum arguments across the internet.

There are key differences within the design of BC 2 and MW 2. The major ones that show up in singleplayer and ...

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
A Codemasters Game

8 years ago, Codemasters changed the way people thought about the first-person shooter. With Operation Flashpoint: Cold War crisis, you had a huge amount of freedom in an open world and a level of realism that hadn’t been seen before. An attempt to transfer this experience to the original Xbox in 2005 had a lukewarm reception. With dated graphics it did little to endear itself to the console gamer. Tactical shooters such as Rainbow 6 and Ghost Recon began to thrive on console and soon Operation Flashpoint was lost in the sands of time. Now the sequel has finally appeared, developed solely by Codemasters, this also has a brand new game engine. But how does it hold up.

Starting up the game you are greeted with your options and naturally you want to jump straight into the ca...

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Mass Effect 2 starts roughly one month after the ending of the first Mass Effect game. You again take control of Shepard, commander of the Normandy spacecraft. In a dramatic opening few minutes the Normandy comes under attack from an unknown enemy ship while out on patrol, and during the subsequent attempts to save the crew, Commander Shepard is killed and the Normandy destroyed. Shepards’ body is retrieved and through the Shadow Broker, obtained by the shadowy organisation Cerberus who then spend the next two years rebuilding Shepard. This is so that Shepard can be recruited by the leader of Cerberus, The Illusive Man, to lead the fight against the newest threat to the universe, The Collectors.

It is at this point that you must choose the class of character that you are going to play as. You must cho...

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