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It’s easy to label Disney Infinity as little more than Skylanders with Disney-Pixar characters. But while the way it gets players using toy figures to influence the on-screen fun owes much to Activision’s mega-hit, Disney is seeking to take Skylanders‘ fusion of figurines and games to new heights with a...
It’s Crazy Dave’s fault. The tinpot-hatted neighbour from the original Plants vs. Zombies likes tacos so much he’s whisked you back in time just so he can eat the same taco he already wolfed down. Unfortunately, said time machine has taken you and Crazy Dave too far back in time....
It’s a real-time strategy game but there are no soldiers, battlefields or tanks. Instead there are armies of primary coloured plant people, a garden landscape and oversized fruit to collect.
Deus Ex: The Fall is Square Enix’s attempt to create a proper console experience for mobile devices. It’s the Deus Ex we know and love; a first-person action RPG with upgrades, moral choices and multiple endings, squeezed down for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. While that’s an impressive technical achievement,...
Company of Heroes set the standard for real-time strategy and now, after a seven-year hiatus, the sequel has arrived. The follow-up shifts the war-game action to the Eastern Front, kicking off in September 1941 with German Panzers closing in on Moscow and following events right through to the fall of...
Marvel’s Deadpool character has become a bona fide fan-favourite – not bad given the label’s extensive roster of much-loved superheroes and that he’s only been around for 20 years. The villain-turned-hero combines many of the X-Men’s best abilities (rapid healing, teleportation, superhuman strength) with a unique sense of humour and...
State of Decay is an indie game with big ambitions, chief of which is to deliver the ultimate zombie apocalypse simulator. Dropped into a huge sandbox world overrun with the undead, a handful of other survivors and limited resources, you and your (hopefully) growing group of battlers must strive to...
Racing game specialists Codemasters take a break from its fine-tuned Formula 1 games and the muddy rallies of the DiRT series to bring us the long-overdue sequel to 2008’s Race Driver: GRID. Like its predecessor GRID 2 is a ‘best of’ motorsport that mixes up famous tracks, pin-up cars and...
Originally assumed to be an April Fool’s joke, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon turned out to be very real. This inexpensive DLC (which doesn’t require that you own the original Far Cry 3) taps pretty much every 80s action movie touchstone: cyborgs, mutants, getting the girl, kicking butt for Uncle...
Dead Island was one of the surprise hits of 2011. It might have been as ropey as a zombie’s skincare regime in places, but it made up for it somewhat by offering a brutal and atmospheric open-world survival horror romp set on a tropical resort island. So has developer Techland...
Playground scores are about to be settled. Injustice: Gods Among Us mixes the fighting prowess of gaming’s goriest brawler, Mortal Kombat, with a roster of DC Comics stars to finally give everyone a chance to see whether Batman or Superman would win in a fight. But can its clash of...
After years of golfing supremacy, EA Sports’ Tiger Woods games have had a couple of years in the rough. First came Tiger’s own real-life controversies and then came last year’s edition which spent most of its time trying to extract more money from players for features that should have been...
