Sim, Sports
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue

There are three kinds of people in the world: dog lovers, cat lovers and car lovers. And in the latter …

Combat, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Wolfenstein

Two things have perpetually stayed the same as the Wolfenstein franchise fast approaches the age of 30: The dreaded Nazis …

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Tomb Raider: Underworld

What Indiana Jones did for map-in-one-hand-gun-in-the-other cinema, Lara Croft has done for video games. They’re really very similar iconic figures …

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Resident Evil 5

When Resident Evil made its U.S. debut on the PlayStation in the mid ’90s, it raised an unexpectedly eerie head …

Strategy
Civilization Revolution

If you’re one of those people who always wants to pull out the Risk game whenever friends or family are …

Sports
The Bigs

The stands were full of parents. I cocked the bat over my 14-year-old shoulder, all aflutter at the plate and …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Two years ago we saw ‘Metal Gear Solid 4’ being previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. It …

Arcade/Platform, Puzzle, Shooter
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

Disco-dancing turns pirates into platform paraders as the heroic Lombax Ratchet jumps onto the PS3 for a sixth video game …

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing
Marvel Ultimate Alliance

The first thing I did when I heard about Marvel Ultimate Alliance was to go to the video game’s official …

Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

There are a lot of first-person shooter video games out there. And in a lot of them all you do …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
LEGO Batman: The Videogame

“Why so serious?” So says the evil Joker in The Dark Knight, the bleakest Batman movie ever. And, though the …

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
The Darkness

Glistening eel-like tentacles sprout from my shoulder blades and hover in anticipation above a gunned-down thug. Razor-sharp teeth gnashing, the …

Action/Adventure, Combat
God of War

The Spartan warrior of slaughterfest ‘God of War’ can do some serious damage onscreen. What’s less evident is how much …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Prototype

Today’s action video games are, on the whole, often pretty similar. Gamemakers drop players into hyper-adrenalized situations, give them obliterating …

Action/Adventure, Combat
Assassin’s Creed

What would you think if science could pull some genetic tidbit out of your DNA and give you the power …