Game: Shank Format: Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network Developer: Klei Entertainment Publisher: Electronic Arts It’s perhaps surprising that more games haven’t drawn on the imagery of exploitation movies, given the genre’s prevalence of striking images and over-the-top violence, both of which are fully present here. Shank joins AM2’s passably entertaining Wet in the “Grindhouse” category [...]
Thu, September 2 2010 » PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 1 Comment
Game: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Format: Xbox Live Arcade Developer: Crystal Dynamics Publisher: Eidos/Square Enix Lara Croft and the Guardian of light is the final game to be released in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade 2010. While featuring Lara Croft, this is not a Tomb Raider game. Instead, Guardian of Light has more [...]
Wed, September 1 2010 » PC, PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 1 Comment
So you’ve heard me give my opinion about the MoH beta, well I was lucky enough to attend a top-secret preview event featuring a very much more advanced code base for the game! For obvious Tier 1 type reasons, there is much I’m not allowed to tell you. Not that that is going to stop [...]
Wed, September 1 2010 » PC, PS3, Previews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
The Medal of Honor reboot has been a hot topic of late. Whilst you’re not going to get a comment on the Taliban controversy in this article, stay tuned to The Newb Review for an exclusive interview with Greg Goodrich, Executive Producer for Medal of Honor, in the coming weeks. in the meantime Tom Wallis [...]
Tue, August 31 2010 » PC, PS3, Previews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
So, last time I cheated on a Smurf with some kind of robot fish bowl vacuum cleaner thing. That’s not the kind of thing that often happens in the land of the sane. But if video game fantasies can allow us to do things – intentional or otherwise – we would never do in our [...]
Mon, August 30 2010 » Articles » No Comments
With Europe’s biggest gaming event, GamesCom in full swing, this week The Newb Review brings you a special, GamesCom edition of the podcast. In part 1, Tom sits down and has a chat with Kieran about what he got up to at days 1 and 2 of GamesCom, live from Cologne. However in a special [...]
Sun, August 22 2010 » Gaming News, Newbreview Podcast » No Comments
So just one day after probably the loudest games conference at Gamescom, EA have allowed us some behind closed doors access to get hands on with an early build of Dead Space 2.
Fri, August 20 2010 » Gaming News » No Comments
2009 was a great year for games, we had Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Left 4 Dead 2 amongst others, and this year seems to be a continuation of that. It’s incredible to think that already this year we’ve managed to get our hands on Mass Effect 2, God of War 3 and Super Mario Galaxy 2, with games from the Halo, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Fallout and Castlevania series all still to come.
With a constant flow of big titles coming out there’s fierce competition and with that comes fairly big titles losing out on sales and somewhat slipping under the radar. No game this year sums this up more than Alan Wake.
Tue, August 17 2010 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
The Transformers universe has been somewhat of a reopened gold mine as of late. A brand new Transformers MMO has been announced for Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Russia, there are brand new toys in the shops and lest we forget the brand new, Michael Bay Transformers movies that have divided opinion (I personally enjoyed them), and all the merchandising that comes with them. But as with anything that is part of so many people’s childhoods, when franchises are revisited in such a way, there’s extreme pressure on “getting it right” and being true to the source material. So imagine my own scepticism then when it was announced that a brand new Transformers game entitled Transformers: War For Cybertron was on it’s way, especially after the most recent Transformers games I had played were the terrible, aforementioned movie tie-ins.
But Transformers: War For Cybertron is different, it stands alone.
Mon, August 16 2010 » PC, PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
In our second edition of Speaking With… we begin to develop something of a pattern by continuing to interview the people behind of some of the best looking downloadable titles of the year. Last time we spoke with Jamie Cheng about fabulous looking cartoony brawler Shank, while this time we speak with Rob Hewson, Senior Creative [...]
Fri, August 13 2010 » Speaking With... » 4 Comments
