Game Reviews
-
Fallout 3 Published Date: Nov 13, 2008Taking something old and making it new again is never an easy thing, if you’ve ever watched a documentary on rebuilding hot rods or classic cars. It’s not just enough to have the bones of something great, you need to have a team that can make the magic happen. Fallout 3 demanded that ...
Genre: Action RPG Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »9.4 -
Fable II Published Date: Nov 3, 2008Video games are strange things, because while they can certainly whisk gamers off to another world for a few hours of fantasy in a distant, fictitious land, their very existence is the opposite of that ideal. Whether it is scripted gameplay, an ordered approach to progression through a title, or pa...
Genre: RPG Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »9.1 -
Far Cry 2 Published Date: Oct 28, 2008Far Cry is an unusual series. It’s unusual because it has two separate groups of followers – those that bumped into it in an overcrowded bar filled with all shapes and sizes of FPSs, was impressed by its stunning beauty but never saw it again. Then there are the console friends, who hav...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.2 -
Fracture Published Date: Oct 17, 2008In the run up to Christmas there are many things that will sparkle in the game store to get your attention. Despite possibly not being all that it could have been, Fracture still has elements worth experiencing. Frontlines: Fuel of War was a reasonable stab at the online combat gen...
Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »7.5 -
FIFA 09 Published Date: Oct 15, 2008Me and the FIFA series have history, and lately I’ve been rather underwhelmed by it all, but FIFA 09 has reignited my fondness for the biggest football game in the world. The game has been overhauled with a new physics engine and the realism factor is cranked up quite a bit, and while not ...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.8 -
Football Manager 08 Published Date: May 13, 2008Football management games have a pretty small target market, mainly because while many people have some of the following traits: obsessive, football fan, spreadsheet hero, willingness to spend entire days in one room with a flickering screen – not many have them all. Well, lucky for SI Games th...
Genre: Sports Simulation Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.9 -
Frontlines: Fuel of War Published Date: Apr 17, 2008While most of the world acts like nothing’s happening as the global oil supplies dwindle, Frontlines: Fuel of War bucks the trend and shows us what life might be like when it gets worse. A lot worse. Because humans do what they do best when that happens – obliterate each other for the last pre...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »7.2 -
Forza Motorsport 2 Published Date: Jul 23, 2007It’s a well-known fact that online racers are incredibly popular, and not only for their bumper-to-bumper gameplay, but because racing games always tend to look superb. Screaming along the home straight, in between Project Gotham 3 and the impending PGR4, is Forza Motorsport 2, making as much noi...
Genre: Racing Simulation Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.8 -
F.E.A.R Published Date: Apr 4, 2007Ever have one of those situations where everything goes wrong? You know the ones, when the guy who is charge of the battalion of mind controlled clone super soldiers becomes possessed and sets them on a rampage for some strange (seemingly) demonic purpose? I mean, I know it only happens once or twic...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.8 -
Fight Night Round 3 Published Date: Apr 4, 2007EA Sports has been a gaming staple since most of this generation’s adult gamers were kids, and every year they produce bigger and better versions of our favorite sports titles. Boxing is one of the more unique sporting games out there, and it’s come a long way from the days of Punch-Out!!, most...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
Read full review »8.4