Reviews by EmP
642 reviews · showing 361–380
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Staff Genesis HG exclusive
Fire Mustang review
So, just this once, I’ll ignore the easy digs, like how the game starts in 1940, while America didn’t enter the war until 1941. Or how the P-51 Mustangs I assume the game is based around were not readily available until around 1943…
Gary Hartley · August 20, 2011
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Staff PlayStation 3 Review of the Week HG exclusive
L.A. Noire review
L.A. Noire is as ambitious as it is broken, presenting yet another game where you spend way too much time driving around a fantastically realised landscape while your passenger pleads with you to slow down, taking nothing but…
Gary Hartley · August 13, 2011
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Staff PC Review of the Week HG exclusive
Trapped Dead review
The errors, the bugs, the flaws, oh god, they're everywhere. In number and in menace, they drown out the game’s zombies. They’ll become your biggest fear. But instead of eating away at your brains, they’ll instead devour any interest you…
Gary Hartley · July 31, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Dead Space 2 review
There’s no sneaking terror. There’s no sneaking. There’s no calm before the storm. There’s just storm.
Gary Hartley · July 28, 2011
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Staff PC Review of the Week HG exclusive
Neptune's Pride review
Perhaps I betrayed they who trusted me the most. Maybe I delighted in the slaughter of those who stood in my way and maybe, when my strategies hit a speed bump, I manipulated the field to my liking. Maybe I broke more hearts than defensive…
Gary Hartley · July 26, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Akane the Kunoichi review
Akane is light, bite-sized and can be picked up and put down at will; this is appreciated. But that doesn’t mean to say it won’t claw your face off and have you thank it for the maiming by the end.
Gary Hartley · July 17, 2011
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Staff DS HG exclusive
B Team: Metal Cartoon Squad review
Here’s the thing; I’ve not played Cannon Fodder since the early nineties, but I still recall the stand out levels, the clever geography and can appreciate the more subtle parodying of the hells of war. In its attempt to revitalise an older…
Gary Hartley · May 30, 2011
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Staff Genesis HG exclusive
Shining Force II review
There’s a reason why I’ve revisited Moun on an almost yearly basis, and beaten the hell out of goat-eared mages. And it’s the same reason why I’ll meet up with FREYJA around the same time next year and do it all over again.
Gary Hartley · May 10, 2011
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Staff PC
Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger review
I feel a bit guilty for panning anybody’s first effort, and my hope that a decent game can be made from this premise is genuine. But the only thing you’ll find here is mounting disappointment and enough dropped balls to start a play pit…
Gary Hartley · May 2, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Beyond Good & Evil HD review
The Live Arcade download is a perfect way for any of the too many people who missed out upon release to catch up. It has shiny new HD enhancements, and Christophe Héral’s fantastically atypical score is all the sharper. More to the point…
Gary Hartley · April 23, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Hydrophobia review
There’s now enough going right to subtract from the things that go wrong in Hydrophobia’s increasingly damp world. Survivalists may want to get in on the action early while the genre-curious might want to hang on and see what the completed…
Gary Hartley · April 14, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Epic Dungeon review
Epic Dungeon does itself credit by showcasing the best elements from years of Rogue-liking, but then manages to stand out of the crowd by daring to be different. Successful runs can last a matter of hours, premature ones a matter of…
Gary Hartley · March 31, 2011
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Staff Genesis Review of the Week HG exclusive
Thunder Force II review
The ideal world is a pipedream. The majority of Thunder Force II is rotten.
Gary Hartley · March 15, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Mass Effect 2 review
If I’m struggling to record my thoughts on Mass Effect 2 it’s because it excels on so many fronts and does so many things right that it’s hard to settle on just one thing. So I’ll ramble in a word document instead, talk about a few things…
Gary Hartley · February 24, 2011
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Crimecraft: Bleedout review
It has the chance to stand out from the crowd, to not be just another also-ran, but it would be unfair to say it’s there right now. Should it continue down this path, its future looks promising.
Gary Hartley · January 30, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Cthulhu Saves the World review
Thus begins the Old One’s quest for backwards redemption -- defeating some evil so he can unleash a greater evil. Sulking along the sandy beach he arrived at, he rescues his first party member, a star-struck water-based healer who…
Gary Hartley · January 28, 2011
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
ZP2KX: Zombies and Pterodactyls 20XX review
You could choose to mow them down with machine pistols or shotguns. With rocket launchers, plasma cannons or flare guns. With flamethrowers, assault rifles, proxy mines, grenade launchers or samurai swords. Railguns, icebeams, mini-nukes…
Gary Hartley · January 24, 2011
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Staff Genesis HG exclusive
Xenon 2: Megablast review
I respect Xenon 2 for the envelopes it pushed, but this doesn’t qualify it for a free pass; it doesn’t excuse its mistakes. Remember its innovations fondly, if you like, just don’t revisit them. There’s no reason to; no reward for your…
Gary Hartley · January 23, 2011
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Medal of Honor review
Medal of Honor can barely claim to being more than half a game, the half it does right, it excels. The other half isn’t bad for a first attempt -- but that’s not really good enough, is it?
Gary Hartley · January 14, 2011
