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NiGHTS into Dreams review

The Sega Saturn is a go. It’s out at stores near you. It’s bigger, badder, and more uncut than any piddly PSX. It features Sonic Team’s, and therefore SEGA’s, most state-of-the-art Sonic title. It’s called NiGHTS into Dreams. It’s so…

Fiddlesticks · October 14, 2012

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

Ghost Manor review

Ghost Manor sacrifices incremental difficulty boosts for variety, essentially providing you with multiple "level ones" that lack the challenge, bite and addictiveness of a typical 2600 game.

JoeTheDestroyer · October 14, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Vampire Rain review

For five years, Vampire Rain had me spooked, and not because of the experience I had with it. In fact, I never even played this release until 2012.

dementedhut · October 13, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive

Dishonored review

It's not the shooting or the sneaking or the cutting of throats that makes Dishonored fun. So many games are all about figuring out precisely what the developers intended for you to do. In Dishonored, you'll frequently do things that the…

Suskie · October 12, 2012

Reader GameCube HG exclusive

BloodRayne review

BloodRayne is not a taut scare game or a breathtaking artsy experience. It's an over-the-top action title with horror elements that hits all of the right marks, and sometimes that's all you need.

JoeTheDestroyer · October 11, 2012

Reader PC HG exclusive

Zombie Shooter 2 review

Even as a cheap thrill, Zombie Shooter 2 fails to impress, as its unwarranted frustration factor will leave you looking for a more intense and less irksome experience.

JoeTheDestroyer · October 9, 2012

Reader PC HG exclusive

Slender: The Eight Pages review

When I think about my favorite fear moments in video games, the ones that come immediately to mind are those in which I’ve had no ability to fight. Escaping from the Nemesis in Raccoon City; pounding my way through rooms in the Himuro…

zippdementia · October 8, 2012

Reader Sega Master System HG exclusive

Wonder Boy review

Ask any owner of the console if there were any franchises synonymous with the Master System, and you'll likely get Alex Kidd or Wonder Boy as your top answer.

dementedhut · October 6, 2012

Reader PlayStation Review of the Week HG exclusive

Clock Tower review

Clock Tower has some bite to it, mostly because you are not as enabled as Leon Kennedy or even Alan Wake. Your choice of heroes includes a school girl, her not-combat-trained friend, an investigator, and a reporter. In other words, you're…

JoeTheDestroyer · October 3, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Soul review

I wish I could further yammer on about Soul and its face-breaking difficulty, but the truth is it's a very simple, straightforward game. What you see is what you get. You guide a soul through passageways and try not to touch obstructions…

JoeTheDestroyer · October 1, 2012

Reader 3DS

Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir review

As a tech demo, Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is an excellent piece of programming, making extensive use of three of the Nintendo 3DS’s internal features: gyroscope, camera, and 3D. Too bad Nintendo did not price it like a tech demo…

darkstarripclaw · September 29, 2012

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Gradius III review

Mangled. Stripped down. Butchered. One could easily choose these words to describe the SNES port of Gradius III, then go on to complain about missing segments, cut stages, and mass amounts of slowdown when the screen is packed with too…

dementedhut · September 29, 2012

Reader PC HG exclusive

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron review

At first glance, most modern gamers will think that this title is a pure copy of the Gears of War games, due to the similar interface and gameplay. You control your robots through the familiar over-the-shoulder look, and guide them through…

darketernal · September 20, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Mindjack review

If it wasn't for its gimmick, Mindjack could have been the most timid third-person cover shooter I've played in recent memory. The flow follows the formula with such generic conviction, going from segmented area to segmented area as you…

dementedhut · September 16, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Sleeping Dogs review

Sleeping Dogs wouldn't have even existed without Square Enix and that could only have been bad thing. Activision didn’t want to give it a chance, but that most certainly doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t either. Delve into the seedy and…

Ally_Doig · September 14, 2012

Reader NES HG exclusive

King's Knight review

Although it sounded like an interesting hybrid of shooter and RPG, the mix wasn't enough to hold my attention as a kid. Without the game's selling point to hold me in thrall, there was nothing to dull the stiff challenge I experienced.

JoeTheDestroyer · September 10, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Anarchy Reigns review

The multiplayer... the main focus of Anarchy Reigns and the obvious reason the game has been stripped of its former glory.

dementedhut · September 9, 2012

Reader 3DS

Centipede: Infestation review

Centipede: Infestation could best be described more as a reimagination than a bastardisation of the Centipede franchise. While only superficially resembling the classic arcade game, Infestation does borrow heavily from other arcade games…

darkstarripclaw · September 8, 2012

Reader NES HG exclusive

Mega Man 6 review

I want to reflect for a moment on how much Mega Man 6 represented the end of an era. The first Mega Man was released in 1987, only two years after the Nintendo Entertainment System came to Western shores. It appeared in the same year as…

zippdementia · September 3, 2012

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Rage review

When RAGE is in its comfort zone we're treated to a masterclass in brutal combat - a graduate from the Doom and Quake academy. Outside it we see a genuine attempt to step out of the shadow of those very classics, but without any meaningful…

Ally_Doig · September 3, 2012