GodBleeder

All I'm gonna say is this, this is good, really really good! Don't get me wrong, I'm not some Dreamcast fanboy who draws crap anime of Shadow and thinks anything with a blue hedgehog in it is amazing. I'm just a gamer who remembers playing Sonic 3 everyday after school and has longed for a Sonic game that succeeds on more than just nostalgia. After playing Sonic Generations, I'll never look back to the Mega-Drive days again, I'm finally looking forward. BUY IT!!

You will enjoy Rage so long as you forget the last ten years of video games. It's all about great fire fights and great graphics. What you will not get is interesting characters, a slither of a story or even a good ending. The racing sections are pretty good considering this is a shooting engine, and the next-gen visuals (albeit with frequent texture pop-ins) make the open world worth exploring. This is a great First Person Shooter spoiled by ten years of much better ones.

Playing Super Street Fighter IV for me is much like reading Shakespear. Everyone praises it and I can see that it's well made, but I just don't get it. Only 5 moves for each character? No dial-a-combos? It's all in the strategy here, not in the move set. As a long time fan of Tekken I just can't get on board with this. This is purely for the hardcore and people who like terrible anime in their cut-scenes. Excuse me, I'm off to play Mortal Kombat 9!

After giving us 'Splosion Man', developers Twisted Pixel began talking about "the game we've always wanted to make". Sounded like a sure thing to me. I was dead wrong. The pitch: a failing comic book super hero and his trusty side kick, rebuild their rep by blasting their way through a multitude of popular comic style worlds (manga, silver age, fantasy etc) cracking jokes and parodying comic book culture as they do it. The reality: The worst twin stick shooter you will ever play. The enemies are over powered and take forever to die, your character is too big on screen to dodge the insane barrage of enemy projectiles. You never get a single weapon change or upgrade, you have the same two pea shooters for the entire 5 hour run. The difference between the comic worlds makes no impact on the dull never changeing run and gun and yawn gameplay. There are some beat 'em up sections in the first few minutes of the game, but they are inconsistently scarce, as if Twist Pixel got board of writing them in. As for the jokes, the humour rarley reaches beyond pop culture reference riddled, self satisfied internet cartoon grade dross. It's borring, frustrating, and well, just not fun.

This has got to be the most underrated game i've ever played. I could talk about it all day. I found the setting both creative and gripping, but the center piece here, is the Jetpack. Not only does it enable your character to transition seemlessly from fire fight to dog fight with out a single loading screen, it introduces, "Vertical Cover". You won't just be pushing forward to your objective. Sometimes you wil be travelling down a rock face, gazing over a ledge to shoot the hiding enemies below, or even more mind bending, shooting your way upwards, only for your enemies to come falling towards you. It's an innovative twist the makes the shooting a real joy. The dog fighting sections can sometimes be frustrating, and some blobby textures can occasionally muddy the visual experience, but this is NOT a game to be missed!

Shadows Of The Damned shows true gamers that the more mainstream the industry gets, the more it loses it's roots. This is classic 16-bit fun in an Unreal 3 Engine skin. Pure fantasy creativity that never apologizes for how silly or entertaining it is. Only one negative trate of modern gaming remains, it's difficulty, I played this game on the hardest setting and cruised through it. Aside from the sleepy level of challenge, this game is unmissable for anyone looking for a break from the real world of military shooters and racing sims that crowd the market.

This game went criminally unoticed. A spectacular action racer where those unscripted "wow" moments never stop coming. Great campaign and multiplayer brilliance. Buy it!

It may be ten times better than the first Just Cause, but in terms of being a fully formed third person sandbox shooter, it still has a long way to go. No cover system? Get with the times.

Having 'Armageddon' as the sub title, says everything about this game. You will have fun blowing everything to hell, but it's also a little unoriginal, especially when you consider the last game's open world geurilla warfare gameplay.

Extremely underrated and great when you play co-op. Mounting titan creatures and battling with a friend is addictive as hell. At £10 it's a sure thing.

If you are looking for a fun platformer, look somewhere else, anywhere else. As for getting your nostalgia fix, you're better off watching a worn out VHS of Power Rangers with the sound off.

Multiplayer that might as well not exist and a slightly short campaign never stops Singularity from being the most underrated shooter of the year. When the room suddenly jumps back to the past and everything morphs around you, you will know where your money went, truly amazing.

Medal Of Honor sports great visuals, slick presentation and deep realism. But being based on a conflict that is still fresh in our minds means never having the balls to go places that Call Of Duty and similar titles can. Gritty but very routine.

Splatterhouse is exactly like the old Splatterhouse titles on the Genesis/Mega-drive. It's a dumb but fun, button masher for people looking to break a £20 note. In some ways it transcends the old school Splatterhouse, and in others it does not. With the flat sprite sliding visuals gone, you're greeted by more atmospheric visuals but also,an awful camera, and some inconsistent textures. You get more moves to splat your foes, but some are just crap and not worth using. Another way in which it remains faithful, is the way in which it copies it's peers to a T. If Splatterhouse was trying to harvest some of the success of Streets Of Rage and Golden Axe, then it is most certainly now jumping on the God Of War band-wagon. Pulling levers, upgrading your combos, unleashing special power meters and initialising brutal quick-time finishers. This is the 3D beat 'em up template. For the most part it's a bloody good laugh. But there are some **** in the terror mask that can make it a little annoying at times. On the back of the case, (the European case atleast) it reads, "THE UNMISTAKABLE SOUND OF TEARING FLESH". Sadly, the sound in the weakest thing in the game, and in my mind the one thing that really drags it down. All of the sounds, including the music are poorly mixed, the volume is all over the place. One minute the mask is shouting directions at you, the next you can only hear a faint mumbling, upon which the optional subtitles become essential. A punch is louder than a door being smashed, a creaking floor-board is louder than someone's head being forcibly removed. What good is squeezing some one's head until it blows-up if all you get is a muted squelch like someone manipulated jelly in there hands. Where are the snaps, the splats and the crunches. It takes away from the otherwise hilarious mayhem. Another final, but small issue, is the special meter. When it is partly filled you can harvest blood from enemies at any time to heal yourself. Fill it up and you can multiply your strength and go mental for 60 seconds. Problem is, it's pointless. When the minute is up, your meter is drained, so no more healing until you can pull off a big finisher. As for the going mental part? You can kill everything with a single hit, but you become so slow, enemies just evade you until it wears off, and there are never enough enemies on screen at once to make it worth doing. So crank up the volume, put on the subtitles, don't bother with the "Hulk smash" button and get splatting!

I love Tekken. I loved it the moment I played the Tekken 2 demo that came bundled with my Playstation. When I bought Tekken 3 I thought it was the best game ever made. From that moment on, Tekken â

Over the years, Bullet-time shooters have become a mini genre of their own. On top of the Max Payne series, we've seen The Matrix Games, Total overdose, The True Crime series, Stranglehold. All pretty simple but still fun. Now joining this mini genre, comes WET. The first thing you will hear about this game is that itâ