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I love swinging. And I’m not even ashamed to say it. After eight long years of countlessly mediocre Spider-Man games, Beenox have finally nailed what it takes to make players feel like they are the Webbed Wonder. And while it’s far from perfect, it’s a rare example of the movie tie-in actually surpassing its inspiration, [...]
If there’s one franchise that shouldn’t lend itself to Traveller’s Tales’ gleefully twee LEGO games, it’s Batman. With a movie series that prides itself on gritty, urban realness, a comic series that excels when it’s most twisted, and a rival game that’s bagged countless awards thanks to its ability to make slow-mo assault feel so [...]
The general gaming rule of thumb is thus: Children’s games are rubbish. Kinect games are rubbish. And considering that around 70% of the Kinect’s catalogue is aimed squarely at the clueless kid/bored middle-aged lady market, things don’t bode too well for Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure. What it does have on its side however, [...]
Let’s get the potentially biased history out the way first. More than any other sports game (including FIFA, ISS et al), my teenage years are full of many a memory spent brutalising my fingers into submission thanks to SSX. So when news emerged that EA were reinventing their extreme sports ‘Tony Hawk on snow’ series, [...]
There’s something weirdly unsettling about Street Fighter X Tekken. Mario and Sonic may have started the ‘life-long enemies-turned-incestual playbuddies’ genre, but for a generation weened on playground fights over which of the two console fighters reigned supreme, booting up the game for the first time feels like you’ve walked in on your parents watching 2 [...]
Wonderful as they are, if there’s one thing that Street Fighter and Tekken have always lacked, it’s the ability to whack your opponent around the face with a bloody great stick. While there have been an ample number of weapons-based fighting games, Namco’s SoulCalibur is the undoubted daddy – and with beautiful graphics, fluid fighting [...]
When HeyUGuys met Jay Ward, it was a bit of a ‘HOLYCHUFF I’MLIVINGOUTONEOFMYDREAMS’ life moment. For the sake of our professionalism (and a restraining order), we didn’t quite let-on how excited we were, but I have always wanted to meet someone from Pixar who worked on some of our favourite films. So we were more [...]
Final Fantasy, eh? Die-hard fans are nigh-on rabid supporters, while RPG virgins are understandably terrified by the prospect of jumping aboard a franchise with over 40 games to its name. Either way, despite aiming for somewhere in the middle, Final Fantasy XIII wasn’t quite what everyone was expecting. A far more linear affair than anything [...]
The Alien games have had somewhat of an iffy legacy. So we’re trying not to get too excited about Aliens: Colinial Marines. But then SEGA go and release trailers like this. The bleeping! The scuttling! The acid! The flamethrowers! We pretty much wet ourselves.
When it comes to iconic video game characters outside of the ‘platforming plumber/hyper hedgehog’ norm, there are few as instantly recognisable as Max Payne – and that’s despite his perma-constipated face of old. So we’re rather excited about the forthcoming Max Payne 3 here at HeyuGuys. Rockstar have just released this rather nifty look at [...]
We’re going to put our hands up right now and admit that we’ve been Final Fantasy fans since VII’s paradigm-shifting RPG on the Playstation. Since then, things have come a long, long way, but despite the graphical overhaul and real time action-orientated battle shift, it still has the thing we know and love best – [...]
If there is one thing developers Volition know, it’s their market. From the billboards of sexy ladies and ridiculously giant cat-headed bazooka-wielders, through to its surreal, looneytoon commercials starring cult comedians Tim & Eric, Saints Row: The Third has a humour and appeal aimed squarely at both the immature and the immature at heart. Luckily [...]
More than any other Kinect game currently available, Harmonix’s Dance Central truly showed off the technical possibilities of Microsoft’s hereto throwaway motion camera system. The original dance game brought a genuinely innovative approach to the genre, exploding the Wii’s constrictive upper-body routines with a camera that had an uncanny ability to track every pop, lock [...]
Reviewing a Kinect Sports game is not too dissimilar to reviewing a Cliff Richards album. From the outset it has a hardcore, devoted and highly engaged audience, and because it’s so inoffensive, it’s all but impossible to critique in a similar way to its peers. Yet where Cliff’s warbling is now targeted at an increasingly [...]
It’s been a long, long time since we could say this, so brace yourselves. SEGA have made a Sonic game worth buying. We know, we know, gaming journos have said this before – through the dark days of the werehog (Sonic Unleashed) through to the throwaway party fun of multi-coloured minigames (Sonic Colors), but this [...]
Sorry this review is a little late. You see, we got Uncharted 3 on launch day and the intervening hours, days and weeks seem to have all but evaporated. Along with our bowel movements and career (10 days impromptu absence will do that, apparently). Naughty Dog are back with arguably the greatest PS3 exclusive Sony [...]
If you thought the most schizophrenic thing about Batman was Bruce Wayne’s surprisingly beneficial split-personality, you’d be wrong. From Joel Schumacher’s baffling Bat-Nipples through to the 60s thwack-tastic TV series, there’s an inherent struggle between the relatable realism of The Dark Knight and the comic book campery of a superhero that spends his day dressed [...]
Anyone who’s played, seen or even heard of the PS3′s Uncharted series will know how cinematic it strives to be. Essentially all the best Indiana Jones and action blockbusters rolled into one – and controlled by you – they follow lead hero Nathan Drake on his adventures across the world to discover treasures and beat [...]
Sony have finally announced a release date and RRP for its soon-to-be-awesome new handheld system, the PS Vita. And we won’t have to wait that much longer, as it’s set for a 22nd February 2012 release. There will be two versions of the console available on launch – a Wi-Fi model for £229.99 and a [...]
It’s not often that a trailer stops you in your tracks. Less so, a game one. Yet Dead Island’s Memento-esque first trailer, released way back in February, was so artfully, beautifully put together, it created a ridiculous level of hype for the game itself. Which was all the more impressive considering that at the time [...]