The Sims 3: Ambitions Review

You can hardly have an excuse for not having heard of the Resident Evil franchise at least once in your life – it's a hugely popular and successful one, which started out from a series of console games and was later made into a movie with several sequel...

The MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games genre has been primarily dominated by fantasy and space themes. Thus, it really sparked our interest when we heard of a new MMO title coming out with a post-apocalyptic theme. Knowing the success of some titl...

Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, as a sequel to a mildly successful game, had to make a good impression on gamers to redeem the mistakes that were made in its predecessor. And for the most part, the developers have succeeded – even though the game...

Rayman fans are probably all too familiar with the Rabbids, the primary antagonists in all of the Rayman games. The pesky, insane creatures did their best to make life as hard as possible for your favorite character in his games, and their popularity am...

Ninja Gaiden is widely recognized as one of the most difficult games in the history of gaming. The original may be decades old, but it still causes some of the older gamers to remember the endless hours spent trying to pass one single level. Of course, ...

Those of us who sometimes crave for the good old days of mowing down mindless hordes of demonic enemies a la Doom were left highly satisfied with the Painkiller series. It encompassed everything gamers loved about the fast-paced action style of the past...

When the first Red Faction came out a few years ago, it made a great impression on the crowds thanks to the capabilities of its Geo-Mod engine – at that time, it was the first ever shooter to offer completely destructible environments. And we're not tal...

The first Eschalon game came from an unknown developer, Basilisk Games, and it managed to build a good reputation for the small indie company. And now, with the release of the second installment in the series, Eschalon: Book II, they're surely on their ...

Fight Night Round 4 is the fourth installment in EA's highly successful Fight Night boxing franchise, offering even more captivating gameplay, better graphics, as well as even more licensed real-life boxers than before. Considering all of its qualities ...

Various TV shows have had their own video games, and not all of them have enjoyed great success. Prison Break, being one of the best-known series on television nowadays, was bound to get one sooner or later – and many fans of the show were worried if th...

Wii shooters seem to be rather hard to get right – most of the results we've seen so far haven't been that impressive, with the exception of some classic titles like Metroid 3 and MoH: Heroes 2. When a shooter for that particular console fails, most tim...

MotorStorm: Arctic Edge continues the successful MotorStorm series, though with several changes – most noticeably, it's been developed by a different studio, and is no longer available for the PS3, having come out for the PS2 and PSP instead. Still, thi...

EA have been doing some strange things with the Need for Speed series lately. Many gamers associated the title with fast-paced, arcade racer gameplay, which naturally left a lot of them puzzled when the developers decided to move towards a more realisti...

Prototype is a very innovative sandbox action game. Spanning over an entire city much like GTA and Mirror's Edge, it offers a very unique style of play that also proves to be highly addictive. Its intricate single player story adds up to the experience ...

The name “East India Company” is probably already a pretty good indication of what this game is about to the more history-savvy among you. In case it doesn't ring any bells though, the game is set during the 17th century, while the conquest of the Asian...

The Rock Band games have been so successful among players, both casual and more hardcore, that many developers have been left pulling out their hairs for not having thought of the idea sooner. The franchise is now moving away from its traditional platfo...

When it comes to skating games, there's generally one well-known leader – the Tony Hawk series. Named after one of the most prominent practitioners of the sport, the series has seen great success and popularity among gamers, delivering a unique arcade e...

When you hear “ninja” or “zombie” in relation to a video game, you probably immediately make a subconscious association with cliched plots and overused scenarios. And while it's true that ninjas and zombies as a plot device have been pretty much exhaust...

A while ago, the developers of the Mario series realized they couldn't just keep repeating the same old platformer formula over and over again and hope to keep players interested – so they expanded the franchise into other genres, such as racing games a...

Raven Software, known for some recent successful titles like Wolfenstein and X-Men: Origins, are back with yet another potential hit. Singularity, based in the Cold War period, follows a science fiction alternate storyline for what actually happened at ...

Order of War is a real-time strategy based on World War 2, a popular setting for games lately. That doesn't stop Order of War from being very unique in some of its aspects though, and a lot of players are enjoying it today both for its single player cam...

Many of us grew up with the exploits of Mario and Luigi, controlling them with a joystick in our hands. The series' popularity is phenomenal, and even non-gamers can easily recognize the characters nowadays. The newest game in the franchise, Super Mario...

When Still Life came out some years ago, it left fans hugely divided in their reactions to the game – on one hand, mostly everyone was impressed with how well the game had been designed; on the other, its ending left many to criticize it and according t...

The “Soul” series of fighting games are known among most gamers for several things – the unique combat system, where each character fights in their own different style, and the various cameo appearances by popular culture characters. Soul Calibur: Broke...

First person shooters have been growing in all aspects since the genre first came to be – better graphics, better AI for the enemies, more explosions, etc – but the one thing that has always been slow to progress, has been the limit on player numbers. D...

It's very reassuring to see a quality adventure show up every now and then, especially of the good old point-and-click style. Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis is the sequel to a mildly successful title, which even though didn't bring anything new to the g...

Metal Drift is a fast-paced combination of racing and shooting action, all set in a competitive online environment. The game features a unique and innovative setting, lots of room for experimentation by the player, and last but not least, captivating st...