In a series which has essentially become an annual celebration of war's Greatest Hits of the West, it was only a matter of time before a Call Of Duty title turned its iron sights towards the paranoia-gripped Cold War era of the late 1960s. By doing so, Treyarch manages to cover off many of America's ongoing obsessions in one fell swoop, embracing Vietnam, Cuba, crazy Russian megalomaniacs and even the Kennedy assassination. At the buffet of war, Black Ops demands an extra large plate.

With such a scattershot approach, its perhaps inevitable that Black Ops' seven-hour campaign struggles to focus on anything for long enough for any sense of coherence to emerge from the mire of screeching plot twists and the imminent threat of Soviet chemical warfare.

Played out in particularly shouty flashback, Special Forces operative Alex Mason finds himself under interrogation, endlessly gril ... Read more »

After Need for Speed Underground outsold all other games in 2004, the largest independent game publisher in the world adroitly kept the series coming without a hitch. Last year's Most Wanted shipped at Microsoft's Xbox 360 launch and introduced a creative take on story-telling by using filtered customized FMV to give the familiar racer a fresh presentation. The police were back with a ferocious vengeance. And it offered a particularly North-West vibe to it.

This year's version, Need for Speed Carbon, which refers to Carbon Canyon where racers duel for territory in the city below, is a minor shake-up for the series, shifting in new features, shifting out others, while continuing the FMV-heavy story-te ... Read more »

Developers of racing games received a new injection of life and purpose in the last two years. The growing popularity of street racing and modding has flourished in the popular culture, while Criterion's Burnout series has blazed a path all its own, bringing arcade racing back to its pre-Gran Turismo glory days. The Need for Speed series has never clung to a particular aspect of pop culture like Rockstar's Midnight Club or a particular car like Sega's Ferrari 360, but the long-time series struck gold with its light implementation of modding with Need for Speed Underground, selling more units worldwide than any game in 2003 with 7.5 million. Need for Speed Most Wanted continues the street culture thing, but EA's Canadian development team has mined one of the better iterations of the series, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, fusing both rudiments into a newly ... Read more »

Fallout: New Vegas begins with a bang, leaving you shot in the head and left for dead in a shallow grave. But luck is on your side that night in the post-apocalyptic New West. You survive, thanks to a mysteriously chivalrous robot and a nearby town doctor. Tracking down the men who tried to kill you is just the beginning of the mystery. Before long, you'll find yourself drawn into a war over the future of the Mojave Desert and control over the Las Vegas strip.

There are several factions vying for control of the desert wasteland. Mr. House rules the Vegas strip. With his army of security robots, he calls the shots and maintains control over the casinos and dens of sin. The NCR (New California Republic) is a military faction, attempting to maintain law and order with their stockpile of pre-war weapons and supplies. And then, there's Ceasar's Le ... Read more »

Hands down, our favorite mission in Grand Theft Auto IV was the one centered entirely around the events before, during and after a gigantic midtown bank heist. We'd start out in a car, picking up our collaborators on the way, and then pour into the bank spraying bullets at anything that moved in an attempt to escape from walls of police officers before exiting through the subway system to safety. We don't need an entire game where the pacing dial is kicked up to 11, but doing something as menial as delivering a pizza or dropping off a dump truck seems pointlessly trivial in comparison.

GTA IV dabbled with the concept of a branching storyline with decisive choice moments throughout t ... Read more »

Overshadowed by the big three sequels this fall -- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, and Halo 2 -- the world's best selling game in 2003 really isn't something that should be ignored. Electronic Arts' Need for Speed Underground 2 is a huge makeover, improving on every aspect of last year's version by building an impressive level of depth in every facet of play.

An arcade racer by nature, NFSU2 expands into many new territories with a deep, complex progression system. It builds out an impressive customization mode, lacking in last year's model, and furthers its reach into America's trendy import tuner culture with the appropriate d ... Read more »

This game is just awsome, it´s an perfect combination of all fps games out there: HL2+CoD+Wolfenstein = Singularity.
This game is great and the story is fresh and new, I played this game and I think that it beats Wolfenstein (2009), but this game have some problems.
And here we goooo!

Story

This game takes place on a Island called Katorga12, this Island was important to the Russians in the past for experiments with an element called E99. They tried to use the E99 for time travelling, but, one day something bad happened. Now in 2010 you are an US Soldier making an patrol to that Island in a chopper, but an EM ... Read more »

Yes it´s devil may cry but with more info. The other entry that you readed allready was very good but I am here to talk more about the game and now the pictures are from the real game, but I am here to make an little preview.

You may hear that Dante is very changed from the original, and yes, it is. The producers tried to make the carachter with more style, that dante that we see is a more younger Dante. The fans of the series are angry and not liking the joke, but this game can be good, let´s hope. The producers said that they are trying to change the Devil may Cry franchise. Among the many video game previews released at the Tokyo Game Show Devil May Cry 5 stood out as one of the sickest looking upcoming games.

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For the first time in the main series, an online mode will be available in the game, with 16 player capability. A damage model has been confirmed with variations of damage depending on whether the vehicle is "standard" or "premium". The game will feature 20 different locations and 70 different tracks. Night racing will make a reappearance for GT5, but it's not clear how many circuits will be able to be raced on at night.

A detailed damage model has been confirmed with variations of damage depending on whether the vehicle is "standard" or "premium". Weather effects are confirmed to b ... Read more »

Only a year gone and Electronic Arts is already burning rubber with another Need for Speed title. Last year the publisher released Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, a fantastic racer on the PlayStation 2, but one not quite as polished on other platforms. Since developer Black Box was responsible for the slick PS2 iteration, EA recruited them to develop the next in the franchise.

Aptly titled Need for Speed Underground, it focuses on the custom kit and import car circuit. It is most commonly, and certainly not unfairly, compared to the theme featured in the popular The Fast and the Furious movies. So, it is a definite departure from the world of exotic cars and over-the-top police chases that the series was founded on. It broadens the NFS franchise, bringing a number of things to the start ... Read more »