Reviews
11,295 reviews · showing 5,341–5,360
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
UFC Undisputed 2009 review
In Undisputed, the tendency is toward striking battles, rather than toward what that particular fighter is actually most comfortable with or known for. Fortunately, this flaw won’t matter much for most gamers because the average MMA fan is…
Marc Golding · June 5, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Bejeweled 2 review
PopCap Games first developed Bejeweled and released it in the Flash format back in 2001. Since then, the title has appeared on nearly every gaming platform known to man, ranging from the PC to mobile phones, the Xbox 360 and now the…
Gareth Chadwick · June 4, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Stalin vs. Martians review
But anyway, the game is an RTS in the same way that margarine is butter, which is to say it's not, but it looks similar! The overhead camera is old hat to the genre. The piles of units marching together toward their objective is familiar…
Josh Higley · June 4, 2009
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Elite Forces: Unit 77 review
Considering that the enemies pose no threat, basic ammunition is unlimited, and you virtually trip over medkits around every corner, you’d think Elite Forces is an easy game, right? But it isn’t, simply because things go wrong. Maybe Bill…
Mike Suskie · June 3, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3
Terminator Salvation review
At first, such encounters are thrilling because you don't know what's going on and it's easy to die. Any battle is epic. Then you learn how to utilize cover and you discover that you can basically just draw fire from behind a barrier while…
Jason Venter · June 3, 2009
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Reader PlayStation
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 review
Tony Hawk’s is probably one of the most ubiquitous franchises of the last decade. It’s appeared on every format made since ollie-ing into the PlayStation park in 1999, and when each game is designed to be built better than the last…
bigcj34 · June 3, 2009
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier review
RPGs are stereotyped as one of the more intellectual game genres, all about story and plot and meaning. Endless Frontier bucks this stereotype pretty hard. It’s a self-consciously dopey, disposable sort of story that’s little more than an…
Alicia Ashby · June 2, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel review
I have a rule called the FAQ rule. If I reach a point where I find myself checking FAQs to see how much longer a game goes on, then I know the game has outlived its welcome. In the case of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, I hadn’t done anything…
Jonathan Stark · June 2, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge review
I’ve nothing against games being hard, but before you survive the first few initial outings, loot a few corpses and watch your team’s stats rise to the point where it’s noticeable, you’ll be spending a lot of time reloading old saves that…
Gary Hartley · June 1, 2009
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Reader PlayStation 2
Neo Contra review
After the dreadful Appaloosa game that had the word Contra slapped on it (C: The Contra Adventure), Shattered Soldier was a welcomed return to the series' roots. Bill Rizer reappeared as the main character, who was accompanied this time by…
dementedhut · June 1, 2009
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Reader PlayStation 3
inFAMOUS review
It all started with a bang. Or rather, it ended with one. Half of Empire City, gone in a fiery apocalypse. Buildings, roads, people, everything. The bomb left almost nothing behind, not even the bodies of its victims. Just the sickening…
disco · May 31, 2009
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity review
The very existence of the sandbox levels leads me to believe that Deep Silver liked what they’d come up with and assumed players would be intrigued enough to want to explore the world of Gravity further. So why, then, is there no puzzle…
Mike Suskie · May 31, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Space War Commander review
Space War Commander is simple enough that it can be picked up and learned very quickly, and won't eat up your time with long-winded matches like other RTS games. The only thing really missing is multiplayer support, but even so Space War…
Will Roy · May 30, 2009
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Star Trek D-A-C review
At its very best, D-A-C is a good online game with the potential to offer up some epic six-on-six space wars. But when Xbox Live is slow and you can’t find a full game, all that’s left is an empty and lazy solo experience.
Paul Josua · May 30, 2009
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Reader PC
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards review
Leisure Suit Larry (LSL,) despite notoriety after its first release was less disgusting and offensive than its sequels, most of which overused weak riffs on material from the original game anyway. It's surely one of Sierra's very best…
aschultz · May 28, 2009
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Reader Atari 2600
Laser Blast review
For years, I remembered Laser Blast (LB) as the game that I should've won, but I had to go to the bathroom. LB has an appealing, amusing concept. You are a UFO, elliptical and with windows spinning around the center. You must fire down at…
aschultz · May 28, 2009
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Reader PlayStation 3
Resident Evil 5 review
Over the countless years I’ve been playing video games, I’ve anticipated the release of many titles. Most of them have been sequels—Shining Force II, Lunar: Eternal Blue, Bloodrayne 2. It’s a long list. But never, ever, have I anticipated…
True · May 28, 2009
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Staff NES HG exclusive
Rolling Thunder review
By the time I'd gotten to about the third or fourth of the game's 10 levels, I was tempted to check my Nintendo to see if a slot for me to dump quarters into had magically appeared. By the time I'd gotten through a bit more than half the…
Rob Hamilton · May 27, 2009
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Bionic Commando review
Development team GRIN, also responsible for Bionic Commando Rearmed, have created an immensely playable game. Unfortunately, it's not the fount of creative goodness that its predecessor was. Although the game is speckled with phenomenal…
Zigfried · May 26, 2009
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Reader Wii HG exclusive
Major Minor's Majestic March review
Major Minor's Majestic March has an impressive pedigree. Its developer NanaOn-Sha, or more specifically musician Masaya Matsuura and artist Rodney Alan Greenblat, helped shape the rhythm game genre with iconic 90's releases PaRappa the…
woodhouse · May 25, 2009
