A bit Hong Kong action flick spliced with Grand Theft Auto? Go on, then.
Playing as undercover cop Wei Shen, your mission in Sleeping Dogs is to infiltrate the dangerous gangs of Hong Kong and learn important information about their activities, before reporting back to domestic and international intelligence forces.
Unlikely as it may sound, South Park: The Stick of Truth is effectively an RPG using turn-based combat, party quests, main quest and side quests, bad language, scenes of a racy nature and, most of all, the benefit of the South Park graphic style and humour.
The graphics, the scripting, the characters (and there are many), the humour; it’s as if a set of executives from...
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Tales of Symphonia: Chronicles dusts off two games previously seen on the GameCube and Wii and gives them a splash of HD paint. For the first time on the PS3, players can get at Tales of Symphonia and its sequel, Dawn of the New World.
How much are you willing to sacrifice for the chance to save your world? In the dying world of Sylvarant, legend has it that a Chosen One...
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The Darkness is back, and it's darker (of course!) and bloodier than ever! It's about Jackie Estacado, a mobster who, on his 21st birthday, wound up hosting the Darkness, a sentient demonic force from the dawn of time. This demonic force has suitably demonic plans for Jackie but, having risen to the top of the mob, he's been keeping it in check for the last couple of years. It's all based on the...
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Set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim promises to take role playing to a whole new level. The land of Skyrim has tumbled headlong into civil war after the assassination of the King. Add in the rising god-dragon Alduin who is hell-bent on destroying the world and things are looking bad. The only possible saviour? You.
Set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim promises to take role playing to a whole new level. The land of Skyrim has tumbled headlong into civil war after the assassination of the King. Add in the rising god-dragon Alduin who is hell-bent on destroying the world and things are looking bad. The only possible saviour? You.
When The Evil Within was announced, it sent shivers of delight and horror through the gaming community in roughly equal measures. Developed by Tango Gameworks, the game marks the return to survival horror by acclaimed Resident Evil creator Shinjo Mikami. Expect chills, nightmares and gore by the bucketload...
The game revolves around detective Sebastian Castellanos, a man...
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Naughty Dog might be 'the Uncharted studio', but The Last of Us is a game that marries the same inimitable art style with a completely different gameplay experience.
The world around the protagonist, Joel, and his companions - a former partner named Tess and a 14-year-old girl called Ellie - is grim and lifeless. The player must guide them on a quest for survival,...
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Telltale games is credited with trying to single-handedly pull the point and click adventure genre back into the limelight, and The Walking Dead is arguably its crowning achievement to date.
The game is based on the cult-favourite comic The Walking Dead - which has also been made into a hit TV show - and drops you into the aftermath of a zombie uprising. You play as Lee...
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Zombies. It isn't nice when they go shuffling around, eating live human brains like they own the place. At the very least, it’s quite dangerous. And naturally, the cause of a lot of tension between surviving humans. This last part is exactly what popular graphic novel and TV show The Walking Dead focuses on - the humanity and drama that comes from such an apocalyptic setting.
Valkyria Chronicles might sound like a hack and slash romp through nordic lands of yore, but it's actually a refined strategic role playing game (SRPG) that will set your brain tingling.
It sets players down in the country of Gallia, a fictional little place set on a continent eerily reminiscent of 1930s Europe. It follows Welkin, a commander with a heroic bent, as he...
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In Watch_Dogs, Ubisoft's open-world thriller that has been hyped to the moon and back, you play as Aiden Pierce, a hacker in Chicago on the hunt for his niece's killer.
Yes, it's an open-world thriller. No, that doesn't mean that its defining feature will be driving over pedestrians as it has been in every Grand Theft Auto-alike since the dawn of... well, Grand Theft...
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Every guy wants to be a white knight to a fair lady at least once in his lifetime. Leonard gets his chance to do the very same in White Knight Chronicles, where he tries to protect Balandor's princess from capture by the evil Wizard corporation. In doing so, he comes across a suit of armour that transforms him into a literal White Knight.