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Game Reviews

Review: Mirror's Edge

Leaping across its skyscraper rooftops and scaling walls is exhilarating.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts Bolts

The studio has transformed one of its most-loved platformers into a creative wacky racer.

Review: Resistance 2

The imaginative and entertaining arsenal is again the game's highlight.

Review: World of Goo

This is a simple yet ingenious puzzle construction game that players of all ages can enjoy.

Review: Guitar Hero World Tour

After creating customised rockers, budding musicians can play as a band or solo.

Review: Gears of War 2

Careful use of cover is essential during the intense and exhilarating battles.

Review: Wii Music

Torments the ears with nursery rhymes, folk songs and horrendous arrangements of classical music.

Review: Fallout 3

This post-apocalyptic blockbuster asks players difficult questions.

Review: Fable II

The ambitious Fable II presents such an incredibly convincing world to explore that you often find yourself sidetracked for hours.

Review: Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 returns to Conrad's Africa in the 21st century and it is still "The Dark Continent" where Westerners succumb to their base savagery.

Review: Saints Row 2

While Rockstar took a darker, more serious and mature tone for its magnum opus Grand Theft Auto IV, THQ has been content to provide fun-loving criminals another dose of absurd, violent anarchy.

Review: Wipeout HD

Fans and newcomers alike will be thrilled by this game's astonishingly fast pace, stunning visuals and wildly undulating circuits.

Review: Lego Batman

Has plenty of secrets to find and will make players smile thanks to its slapstick humour.

Review: LittleBigPlanet

Players of all ages will be entranced by this wonderfully unique, hilarious plaything.

Review: Crysis Warhead

Like its predecessor, Warhead's strength is the tactical freedom offered to players.

Review: Samba De Amigo

Samba can be a riot played with friends but the controls are so hobbled.

Review: Pure

Your steed is an all-terrain vehicle and at all times you are battling 15 aggressive rivals.

Review: de Blob

Transforming a drab, monochrome city into a colourful urban paradise is incredibly satisfying.

Review: Peggle Nights

It's simple and repetitive but you are almost guaranteed to soon be hooked.

Lock's Quest

Our young hero can fight enemies hand-to-hand while turrets blast foes from afar.