Witch way?

BAYONETTA - Sega - Various consoles - £49.99
BAYONETTA
is a cinematic, stylised third person action game from the famed creative mind of renowned game developer, Hideki Kamiya of PlatinumGames.
Bayonetta
, the game's protagonist, is a graceful, gun-wielding witch who awakens after being entombed in a coffin at bottom of a lake for 500 years with no memory.
As players embark on this quest with Bayonetta, they will begin to unfold the mystery behind her past and her purpose in the game, such as why she fights against angels and other countless fantastic enemies.
In combat, Bayonetta uses weapons, magic, acrobatics and her larger-than-life hair to redefine the look and feel of the action genre.
Published Date:
14/02/2010
Modified Date:
14/02/2010
Bioshock tactics

BIOSHOCK 2 - 2KGames - Various consoles - £49.99
The single player serves as a sequel to the original game and provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling visual design and the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay.
Set almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness once thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard.
An unspeakable series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an unseen monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture’s failed utopia under the ocean.
Players must step into the boots of one of gaming's most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they traverse through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their survival.
Multiplayer in BioShock 2 provides fans with a rich and engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction of Rapture’s origins.
Set during the year before Rapture’s descent into chaos, players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, a key provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city that was first explored in BioShock. Players will enter into areas from the original title as they struggle to gain superiority in frantically paced battles.
Following in the critically acclaimed footsteps of its predecessor, BioShock 2 has already received high scores from the UK’s top gaming and consumer press.
Published Date:
14/02/2010
Modified Date:
14/02/2010
Cert 18 shooter

BORDERLANDS - 2k/Gearbox - PC/PS3/Xbox360 - £44.99 - Cert 18
BORDERLANDS is a highly-anticipated original intellectual property from Gearbox Software, creators of the acclaimed Brothers in Arms franchise.
Featuring extensive co-op integration that seamlessly blends the single player and multiplayer experiences, Borderlands will allow players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to choose to play in full single player mode to experience the world on their own.
Borderlands will also include a groundbreaking content generation system that adds nearly infinite variety in the amount of weapons that are available to the player.
These features, along with addictive nonstop action, will combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters and RPGs.
Radical New Art Style: Fresh and exciting new visual style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a unique and eye-catching spin on the First Person Shooter genre.
Gun Lust: Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. A revolutionary new content generation system produces almost infinite tools of destruction.
Intense Vehicular Combat: Get behind the wheel of and engage in intense vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with extensive damage modelling and spectacular explosions.
Published Date:
05/11/2009
Modified Date:
05/11/2009
Dragon's den




Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - CERT 18 - Codemasters - PC/Xbox360/PS3 - £Varying per console
In Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising gamers play the decisive role in defusing a military flashpoint between two global superpowers that threatens the entire world. Players take the role of US Marines and Special Forces operatives dispatched to take back the oil-rich Russian island of Skira from an invading force of Chinese PLA.
The 220km² island becomes the ultimate open-world battlefield as players are empowered to make their own choices, deploy their own tactics and fight war on their own terms. Objectives are set – how they are accomplished is always up to the player who has the full resources of the US Marine Corps at their disposal and the ability to attack from any direction. Intelligent squad and enemy AI, based on authentic military tactics, react in real-time to situations as they unfold to ensure that no two games will ever play out the same.
Players will become immersed in a stunningly realistic conflict with unprecedented levels of detail, freedom and authenticity. Every decision counts, every action has a consequence and every bullet can kill as Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising recreates the lethality, tension and adrenaline of real war like never before.
The violence, ferocity and carnage of war is brought to life as troops on both sides attack in authentic formations, use cover realistically and engage in ranged, close-quarters and vehicular combat. USMC forces fight through the airfield’s perimeter before infiltrating the Control Tower, eliminating enemy targets with rapid, ruthless aggression. The Marines then assume defensive positions in readiness for the PLA counter-attack. A Chinese WZ-10 attack helicopter is spectacularly blown out of the sky by a shoulder-launched surface to air missile, before the conflict culminates with PLA armour advancing across a battlefield surrounded by mortar fire and strewn with burning wreckage. This flashpoint is still white hot…
Published Date:
14/10/2009
Modified Date:
14/10/2009
Ashes to Ashes

ASHES CRICKET 2009 - Codemasters - PC/PS3/Wii/Xbox360 - £Various per consoleFOR all of those people who regret the start of the footie season, help is at hand because this cricket-fest will have you salivating.
All the drama of the nPower Ashes Series from all five of the official grounds is packed into the program.
It features Test matches, One Day Internationals and 20-over games to keep you occupied for, well, YEARS!!
The Wii version (you've probably seen the TV ads by now) allows the players to use the remote for batting and bowling while the HD editions for other consoles will also feature online multi-player matches.
So, don those pads and get out to the crease.
Published Date:
12/08/2009
Modified Date:
12/08/2009
FUEL for thought

FUEL - Codemasters - PC/PS3/XBox360 - £Various
FUEL will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that’s over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size. With environmental detail inspired by America’s most incredible landscapes, FUEL will be the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience.
No boundaries racing: FUEL is a groundbreaking racing game without boundaries – on and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles race a massively diverse environment inspired by the most challenging real areas of the American wilderness. Experience exhilarating races in a huge range of vehicles, explore over 5,000 square miles of wildly different terrain from deep snow to arid river-beds, battle the elements and pull off spectacular stunts in epic world on an unprecedented scale.
Vrooom with a view: In FUEL if you can see it you can drive to it. With a jaw-dropping draw distance of 40KM, there’s never been a world so large to explore or so many striking vistas to discover. The entire game world is available for players to explore in free-roam and provides a challenging, compelling environment for FUEL’s stunning race events.
Dramatic, dynamic extreme weather: Set in an environmentally damaged fictional future, the game world is further brought to life with real-time extreme weather that includes blizzards, lashing rainstorms, lightening strikes, sandstorms and tornados that transform the terrain and affect vehicle performance creating a unique race experience.
Choose your own route, win in your own style: With a huge range of vehicles, player choice lies at the heart of FUEL’s action-packed races as players speed across huge swathes of diverse terrain, carving out on-the-fly routes to take the chequered flag. Roadsters reach extraordinary speeds on the asphalt, monster trucks steam-roller through forests and dirt-bikes scramble down mountainsides as gamers take on dangerous short-cuts, death-defying jumps and clatter through spectacular cross-over points in a beautifully realised wilderness.
A massive 5,000+ square miles inspired by wilderness: FUEL’s world is created from the most compelling, diverse and striking areas of the North American wilderness, from the Utah badlands, to Yellowstone Park and Arizona. Recognisable landmarks, including Death Valley and Mount Rushmore, are modelled from satellite data and rendered beautiful by the game engine. The effects of accelerated global warming – from sandstorms, blizzards and brush fires to tsunamis and tornadoes – create uniquely unpredictable and spectacular races.
Online multiplayer: The online and offline worlds become one with a fully-integrated multiplayer featuring hundreds of preset challenges and countless locations where friends or strangers can meet to show off their skills and their customised rides or set out to explore the world together.
Published Date:
28/06/2009
Modified Date:
28/06/2009
Birthday Bash

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! - 2KPlay - Wii - £19.99
HERE'S one for the kids, and, well, parents too.
The offical blurb says the game is set to save parents, on average, £2,014.23 over seven years – by providing a fantastic children’s birthday party experience in a £19.99 box.
Blimey, when I was a kid you got a cake, orange juice and a few friends around to play pass the parcel. How times have changed.
Anyway, It’s My Birthday! offers everything parents need to get the party started. Party invitations, banners and colouring sheets are included within the box, along with a special crown for the all-important birthday boy or girl.
The game provides a unique and entertaining way to host a children’s birthday celebration, offering state-of-the-art party games which can be enjoyed by up to 12 children at a time on the Wii. Modernising classics like pin the tail on the donkey, sack race, musical chairs, and 17 other traditional birthday games, it’s the perfect way to host a memorable and fun children’s birthday party – without breaking the bank.
When it’s time for the cake, the game even breaks into ‘Happy Birthday’, complete with on-screen lyrics to encourage everyone at the party to give a rousing rendition.
It’s My Birthday! can be used over and over again, and still offers fun for all the family even when the candles go out. In addition, publisher 2K even offers the ability to print out additional invitations for free after the originals have been used.
Published Date:
28/06/2009
Modified Date:
28/06/2009
Tee-off with Tiger


TIGER WOODS - EA LIVE - Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
Prove yourself against the best players in the world through the all-new EA SPORTS Live Tournaments online mode for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10. EA SPORTS Live Tournaments consists of three categories: daily, weekly and Play the Pros tournaments. Gamers can jump into a new tournament each day, play 18 holes and see if their round stays atop of the leaderboard, or play in a weekly tournament and post scores from four rounds that span over an entire week of play.


Play the Pros is an extension of the daily and weekly tournament systems, but instead of a gamer-submitted leaderboard, players will be posting their scores against the real life scores of PGA TOUR golfers during an actual professional event. EA SPORTS Live Tournaments is available on Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and Wii versions of the game.
Anthony Kim and Rocco Mediate Join the Field – In addition to EA SPORTS Live Tournaments, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 welcomes new golfers Anthony Kim and Rocco Mediate to the franchise. Kim, one of the PGA TOUR’s young rising stars, won two tournaments last season including Tiger Woods’ own AT&T National. Veteran player Mediate battled Woods nearly shot-for-shot in last year’s historical playoff round of the U.S. Open. Both players are featured in all versions of the game alongside a robust roster of pro golfers such as, Luke Donald, Jim Furyk, Natalie Gulbis, Rory McIlroy, Vijay Singh, just to name a few.
Test Your Skills on Great Tournament Courses - Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 bring to life the beauty and realism of six new courses: Bethpage Black – site of the 2009 U.S. Open, Hazeltine, Oakmont, Pinehurst, Torrey Pines and Turnberry. On the Wii, Banff Springs, Bethpage Black, Hazeltine, Oakmont, Pinehurst, Torrey Pines and Turnberry make their debut.
Published Date:
09/05/2009
Modified Date:
09/05/2009