4,731 reviews · showing 2,781–2,800
Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Blacksite: Area 51 is just another shooter. You’ve played this game before; you’ve played it better and you‘ve played it worse, but this doesn’t change the fact that, as a title, it simply exists.
Gary Hartley · February 14, 2009
Staff NES HG exclusive
My hero began the game with a whopping 50 lives and there are TONS of vials scattered through the castle worth one bonus life each. However, each life is naught but a fleeting moment in Castlequest's.....uhhh...castle. I found that out in…
Rob Hamilton · February 13, 2009
Staff PC HG exclusive
In many ways, Penumbra is exactly what horror games should be like. In many others, the inexperience of the developer cuts through the mix a little too clearly for comfort. This flitting between terrifying and tiring leaves a little to be…
Lewis Denby · February 11, 2009
Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
This game nails the Arcade portion of its title. Shedding all cumbersome rules – offsides, icing, penalties, faceoffs – 3 on 3 NHL Arcade delivers nonstop shots, hard hitting-checks, and silly powerups. The NHL half, though, is not so…
Benjamin Woodhouse · February 10, 2009
Staff PlayStation HG exclusive
There is good anime and bad anime, good fighting games and bad fighting games. On the scale, Evil Zone falls somewhere below (way below) Dragon Ball Z in the first category and hovers somewhere to the north west of Smash Brothers in the…
Jonathan Stark · February 10, 2009
Staff Arcade HG exclusive
Used to be a time when shooters graced the arcades, and companies like Irem sat at the top of their craft, producing one solid space-faring saga after another. You don’t have to look beyond their beloved R-Type series to see what I mean…
Felix Arabia · February 8, 2009
Staff NES HG exclusive
Image Fight on the NES is absolutely horrible. Or at least that’s what you’re going to believe. This review won’t convince you otherwise. It’s not that my writing won’t move you to think the opposite, but the screenshots will strive to…
Felix Arabia · February 8, 2009
Staff TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive
More than two years after its initial release, Image Fight stood defiant on the PC Engine as one of the finest shooters the system had to offer. It had graced the arcades, sold its soul to the devil to appear on the NES, and even graced…
Felix Arabia · February 8, 2009
Staff PC HG exclusive
Dear Esther doesn't function like most of its peers, so applying the relatively rigid structure of traditional games criticism doesn't quite work. Attempting to do so would only lead to futile conclusions like 'too easy', 'too short' and…
Lewis Denby · February 8, 2009
Staff Wii HG exclusive
Rygar inhabits a three-dimensional world. However, you'll be forced to deal with fixed angles. As you roam down a hallway and the map indicates that there are doors on either side, you'll need to guess at their precise location. Even in…
Jason Venter · February 7, 2009
Staff NES HG exclusive
One minute, you'll be fighting robotic enemies; the next, it'll be little flying gargoyles coming at you. You'll find yourself diving to the depths of an ocean to set up a jaunt through an alien-infested submarine in the second level…
Rob Hamilton · February 6, 2009
Staff PC HG exclusive
If you can deal with the fact that every single one of your guests is going to be an utter ball-ache to deal with, Hotel Giant 2 becomes predictably addictive, and it's easy to lose hours on end fine-tuning all sorts of little details in…
Lewis Denby · February 6, 2009
Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
The idiot guards conspire to make one point very clear: Assassin’s Creed is a game set amongst a flock of intolerable dumbness.
Gary Hartley · February 4, 2009
Staff X68000 HG exclusive
Dragon Knight's success propelled development house Elf to the heights of respect, insofar as a company that produces hentai video games could possibly be respected. Due in large part to the success of Dragon Knight, a significant portion…
Zigfried · February 1, 2009
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Closed minds will find Eternal Poison to be a finely-crafted strategy RPG. Open minds will find a lot more, including fresh takes on familar themes: religion, altruisim, selfishness, and the double-edged nature of justice.
Zigfried · January 31, 2009
Staff SNES HG exclusive
Unfortunately for Atrushan, there is a bit of a curse on the land, making it very deadly for dragons to venture there (the reason they're confined to their own isolated realm). However, it doesn't take him long (a tiny tutorial dungeon) to…
Rob Hamilton · January 30, 2009
Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
The gunplay is brutal. But it's also masterfully paced, broken up every so often by a spectacular set-piece or a superb on-rails vehicular section. Combat is as effortlessly brilliant as before, with the landmark cover-system playing a…
Lewis Denby · January 30, 2009
Staff Wii HG exclusive
But you’ll find nothing on the Wii quite like Sam & Max: Season 1.
Gary Hartley · January 28, 2009
Staff DS HG exclusive
The developers still haven't figured out how to produce a quality assortment of skill-based games. Luck still plays a larger role than it should and sometimes threatens to turn everything upside-down. In one stage, for instance, you have…
Jason Venter · January 26, 2009
Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
He might not look like much, but Maw is a powerful creature. As the game begins, he's about the size of a pot-bellied pig. You'll wander slowly across the rocky landscape and he'll follow in your wake, gobbling up the bulb-shaped creatures…
Jason Venter · January 26, 2009
