Video Game Reviews
Dead Space 2 Review by Major Slack
Compared to the original smash hit video game, Dead Space 2 is darker, more sinister and definitely opens up a bigger can of whoop-ass...
Borderlands – Road Warrior Meets Diablo
Marketed as the first 'role playing shooter', Borderlands proves itself to be a game of a different color with its Heavy Metal style graphics and its fabulously addicting mix of RPG and FPS gameplay...
Dead Space – 21st Century Survival Horror
Engineer Isaac Clarke chops, lops and purées his way through hordes of aliens aboard the spaceship USG Ishimura while trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious artifact. This excellent gory scarefest published in 2008 by EA is possibly the 21st century reference standard for survival horror video games...
Prototype – Welcome to Video Game Hell
Shape-shifting antihero Alex Mercer takes on monsters and the military in midtown Manhattan. This sandbox-style third person shooter gives you lots to play with but the chaotic gameplay and wonky controls make developing sound strategies and playing with finesse a real challenge...
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Kinda Sorta Scary
I thought it might be difficult to go back to a corridor-style first person shooter after playing the likes of open-world masterstrokes like Far Cry 2 and Crysis but F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin did not disappoint. This game is genuinely creepy at times and guarantees plenty of intense action-packed firefights but it does suffer from a kind of split-personality...
Far Cry 2 – Freedom of Game
Far Cry 2 is a gorgeous first-person shooter that specializes in complete immersion. The quintessential HUD is stripped away and the player is allowed to freely roam around 50 square kilometres of rugged African outback on a quest to kill a mysterious gunrunner known as 'The Jackal'. A wide array of weapons, completely open-ended gameplay and spectacular graphics make for a PC gaming experience that is in a league of its own.
Diablo II – Video Game Crack
Here is the classic (and quintessential) PC game that literally defines the RPG genre and is officially the best selling computer role playing game of all time. Diablo II picks up where Diablo I left off and adds better graphics and deeper gameplay. Addictive as all hell, this game has an entire online cult orbiting around it which buys and sells in-game magic items for real money (much to the chagrin of Battle.net) as well as droves of diehard fans bragging to have the best Diablo II character builds. If you haven't heard about this game then you should perhaps quit the nether regions of space in which you've been hanging out, return to planet Earth and check this out...
Red Alert 1 – The Way We Were
Here is what the video game Red Alert used to look like back in its heyday before it got slightly overcooked with all that co-commander razzamatazz you see in Red Alert 3, the latest offering in this franchise. This page will give you a complete overview of the original title that turned Command & Conquer into a gamer's household phrase as well as provide links to strategy guides and whatnot...
Crysis – A Gorgeous Tactical Shooter
I wrote this review before I played Far Cry 2 so at the time, it was indeed the best new PC video game I had ever played with regards to photorealistic graphics and open-ended gameplay. And Crysis is, in my humble opinion, the true conceptual sequel to the original Far Cry...
Bioshock – A Bizarre PC Game Experience
Bioshock was the first game I played on my 'old' new PC (AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 5600+, GeForce 9600GT, 2GB RAM) and I have to say that when I first booted it up, I was simply astounded by the graphics and gameplay although I highly recommend that you install the patch. Here's my review...