Reviews

I have not been in the online gaming zone for a while now, more hiding in the single player world waiting for something to pull me back in. A friend suggested to me to check out Defiance, a MMOG open world Third Person Online shooter, and all I can say is I am hooked. In a first, Defiance links the game and TV show - they influence and depend on each other and some Player characters will even be used in the show as extras.

A Survivor is born. Rebooting a series is always a risky prospect. Change too much and people hate you, change too little and people will also hate you. Can a developer ever win? Well, maybe not. ‘You can’t please everyone’ as the old adage goes but despite this Crystal Dynamics has managed to create one of the best gaming experiences of this year or recent memory.

Aliens: Colonial Marines isn't as bad as the metacritic and some reviews suggests, but neither is it good, and with some seriously misleading advertising from Sega and relatively poor form from Gearbox, it's not hard to see where things went wrong.

Spec Ops: The Line from 2K Games is a third-person modern military shooter set in Dubai. A Delta Force team is sent to search for survivors in the dead city, but find a city that couldn’t be anything but dead, and must fight between the warring factions to find the man at the heart of it all - Colonel John Konrad.

Sleeping Dogs is a third person open-world game akin to the Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto series. It is single player only, and takes place in a stylised version of Hong Kong. Originally to be released under the True Crime series before changing publishers, it continues setting the perspective from the law enforcement aspect of organised crime.