007: Quantum of Solace
With the Bond license now going to Activision, they gave Treyarch the task of creating a new film tie-in alongside making Call of Duty: World at War. Naturally, this involved using the Call of Duty game engine, focusing on shooting with very little…
Star Trek: Conquest
Conquest is a budget 4x strategy game that has a board game feel about it. You pick a race, build fleets, conquer systems and gain more resources to build more stuff. The maps itself is quite small with only a few spaces between…
Sonic and the Black Knight
The second Sonic storybook game after Sonic and the Secret Rings. This one is an adaptation of the legends of King Arthur, with Merlina the Wizard summing Sonic into her world to help defeat an evil King Arthur. The biggest issue people had…
Sonic Unleashed (Wii)
While people are more familiar with the HD Sonic Unleashed, the game also made an appearance on the Wii and PS2. However, it wasn’t simply a downscaled port of Sonic Unleashed, but is a completely different game following the same story and locations.…
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Zero Gravity takes all the complex elements of Sonic Riders and, instead of improving on them, mostly just gets rid of them. Their air gauge is gone, instead replaced by a gravity meter, while preparing for a jump has been changed to pressing…
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
One big improvement over the first Wii Olympic Games is that all events are unlocked from the start, so as a party game it’s instantly accessible. At the same time, it feels like there’s also not a lot to do in London 2012…
Sonic Colours
This is what I want from Sonic games in terms of structure. I personally don’t like to be forced to go through “padding” just to reach the end of a game, so Colours’ method of just letting you go through the main levels…
Sonic and the Secret Rings
A Sonic game with a unique control scheme. In Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic automatically moves forward and you make him move left/right by tilting the Wii Remote. Holding the jump button will make Sonic slow down and charge up a jump…
Review: Doctor Who: Return to Earth (Wii)
The Doctor and Amy Pond discover an odd signal coming from (according to the game manual) the edge of the solar system – Jupiter. The investigation brings them to a human colony ship – the SS Lucy Gray. It’s damaged and deserted, and…
Review: Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet
Marvel Super Hero Squad is a series designed for kids who are too young to watch normal super hero cartoons. It features a super-deformed art style (you may know it as “chibi”). The Infinity Gauntlet is the second video game based on the…