A football simulation game that works in a similar way to most of the manager games on the market today. The difference is that in Front Office Football you are not the manager who works with the players and is in charge of the team’s tactics. Instead your main …

A real-time strategy game created in the same style as the Earth series and Starcraft. It takes the same ideas with the storyline used by Earth, and combines it with the visual design of Starcraft.
On one hand I don’t think a mixture of existing games will necessarily end in …

Unique 2D platformers are a hard thing to come across these days. The limitations of the forum have left it open to a few good games (e.g. Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog) and many ripoffs, but that’s about it.
N is an exception to the rule. This video …

If you’ve never heard of Icy Tower, then you are missing out on one of the greatest underground hits in the history of video games on the internet. Although it might seem a simple game, Icy Tower is a video game creating countless hours of mindless entertainment and an …

Shade is about a man who’s brother disappeared for unknown reasons. Playing like this man, one is to find out what happened to the brother in maybe the most complex game I ever played. There are a number of different leads to follow at the beginning of the game, …

Unusual game showing a wartime situation from captured soldiers point of view. Created in an intense 3D environment, intended as an action style game, you are supposed to escape from the german prison camps during World War II. As you succeed with this on one course, you can continue …

It’s interesting to play a game like Austerlitz around the same time as the latest Age of Empires and compare the both, as each of the games are said to contain historical truths and that both of them partly focuses on the same war. While Age of Empires contains …

Roller Coaster Tycoon for Windows is a computer game that lets you build and run your own amusement park with roller coasters and other things. You begin with an overview of your land, and then you start creating your park. There’s money involved, you will need to calculate how …

A mostly intended for online multiplayer use, simulation game in which the task is to bring order to the chaotic universe. It is possible to play it offline to, but it’s designed and structured in a way that makes a lot, lot more interesting facing real, living players than …

In Mistmare you play as a 16th century monk in a Europe full of brave knights and adventurous events followed by each other. The monk, named Isador, travels across the landscape to face many dangers. He is not the peaceful praying man of God one might think, but a …

Yahtzee is a great game that I can remember playing when I was in grade school but have rediscovered now in my adult years. The game requires you to plan ahead, do math, and plan a strategy. I remember beign quite good when I was younger, but when a …

One of my favorite games when I was a child was operation, that same game is still popular with children today. The game is a battery operated game where you take a pair of magnetic tweezers and try to remove plastic pieces from a man without touching the side …

This is one of the most recent Tennis games made for a pc, also available on several game consoles. All tennis game fans just have to try this one. Everything that could possibly be asked for by the fans has been taken into a account and transformed into the …

Phantasmagoria is a game focusing on myths and magic. It is very related to the fantasy we’ve seen in great games over the years but there’s horror here also. In a castle somewhere you assume the role of a mysterious woman. This woman is fighting evil spirits, dark magic, …

The Bard’s Tale takes place a couple of hundred years back in time where you are to guide this strange poet called Bard through his life. He encounters dangerous men who wants to face him in a duel by the sword, but more importantly he seduces women and makes …

A much more humoristic strategic gameplay than those we normally see. Has a lot in common with Futuruma and its storyline, but references to The Hitchers Guide to the Galaxy are also there in a sublime sense.
As one could have guessed from the title this game takes place in …

Who need Connect 4? Pay eight bucks for some silly game? I’m not that stupid.
I was so happy when I saw Line-Up Four (just as good as Connect Four) in the dollar store for a dollar. That is what games should cost. How much is …

Crush is the newest offering from CoolMoose.net, a great source of freeware games (they are also makers of the popular RunMan games).
The only limitation to Crush is the rather cartoonish graphics, will while offering a certain charm take away some of the otherwise elements of the game: primarily the …

Resident Evil 4 is the only game of the series that I’ve truly enjoyed playing. Good series, but this game grabbed me like the others were unable to. The graphics are stunning, and level of detail that went into designing my character Leon is impressive. The same cannot be …

I enjoyed Doom 3 for the Xbox gaming system. I have only briefly played the first Doom game, and thought that it was nothing like the original. Good to see that this game has evolved past the original look of the game, but still has that similar scary feeling.
This …

SSX 3 is a fantasy snowboarding game for the PlayStation2 system, produced by EA Games. After playing this game, I see it as a failed attempt at exceeding the previous game, SSX Tricky.
SSX 3 fails in many areas: There are a few new characters, and none leave a lasting …

Star Wars Battlefront II for the Xbox gaming system is produced by LucasArts. I like some of the features that make the game an improvement on Battlefront I, but there are also features I don’t like.
First of all, the already great graphics of SWBF I are somewhat better. So …

Conflict Desert Storm is a war game set in Baghdad where you control four men into battle. You are giving missions that will help change the tide in the war.
The four men you control all have different abilities to balance out the team. One is a medic another is …

Shenmue two picks up from where the first one left off. You are Ryu and you are after a man called Lan Di. He is the man that killed your father and you as Ryu are trying to get your revenge.
Shenmue two is a great game for many reasons …

I don’t know why pushing a mere vestige of a man down a flight of stairs is so gosh darn entertaining, but it is. I have literally sat for an hour or more staring at my screen watching this man fall down the stairs, listening the cracking of …

Futurama is the animated tv show by the man who also created the legendary Simpsons show. The game Futurama logically tranferred the story of Futurama to an xbox and made it look just as good. I only watched one episode of Futurama and I didn’t think it was as …

This is another one of those reality games which gives you the opportunity of living through the life of just plain ordinary people. No spectacular action, no speeding cars or motorcycles, just ordinary life. The Sims made this kind of game popular some years ago, and since then we’ve …

Jetfighter 2015 is a flight simulation game that works with the most advanced technique this kind of game has to offer. As a member of the Air Force team you will be able to be the pilot of aircrafts with the main purpose of fighting terrorism all around the …

This is a pure battle game with a strategic turn-based style on it. The story evolves in the medieval Japan, the key figures are the masterful samurai warriors which one has the opportunity of leading into battle here. The samurai divide themselves in different clans, and which clan you …

This vs. That is a absolutly fabulous game for adults and children. the game is set up as a combination between scattagories
and schrades. Teams come up with 5 items in contrasting catagories, for instance one team will pick hot items the otehr cold the tems then switch lists ad …

Obscure (which must be the strangest game title ever by the way) is a horror game slightly similar to Silent Hill. It was originally developed in France and released in french, but it has now also been distributed with english language during gameplay. Everything takes place in a high …

Very popular war action game in which one faces the atrocities of World War II. As the allied side your mission is simply to wipe out all the germans you can find be completing different carefully planned operations behind enemy lines. The trick here is to never at any …

This is the ultimate racing game. Choose between cars, motorcycles and several other strange vehicles - there’s no rules here. After that you run through the city without a map, finding the fastest route to the finish all on your own, but you have to do it quicker than …

The first game I ever played which is strictly limited to the sniper part of a wartime operation system. In that sense it is an unusual game, but also in the way it describes, shows the whole sensation of being a sniper. One may think that it is only …

Predator was a 1980s cult movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the leading role, which was renewed last year with the amazingly bad Alien vs Predator at the movies. Predator: Concrete Jungle is not the first game on the subject to come out, and I’d be surprised if it would …

A very detailed first-person shooter that takes place in the Vietnam War. You are to complete a number of different difficult tasks, mostly killing your enemies, but also transports and protecting of important leaders. Very similar to the Rainbow Six games and Delta Force. What is interesting with games …

Auto Modellista is a car racing game comparable to Need for Speed and Gran Turismo. It’s exactly the same idea behind it: race with your car, compete in tournaments, earn money, buy more expensive car.
I only tried a few of the Need for Speed games and one in the …

Stragetic science fiction game from the more or less unknown developer Nexon. I found this to be a most innovative way of creating a strategic game. There’s really not much similarity to anything tried before here, except for the basic elements such as perspective. There’s a completely different structure …

This is a most peculiar mixture of James Bond, Knight Rider and Need for Speed, which takes on the most advanced gameplay on the market. With the most remarkable vehicles, mostly a silver colored sports car, you challenge the evil forces who threatens to destroy the whole world. As …

The latest car racing game I played on the xbox is one of the best. FlatOut features various different racing modes and courses, all designed in the most attractive way. The game is different from most other racing games in the whole style of it. Not the usual look …

Wow, this game made me painfully aware of the fact that a game could be far worse than I had already experienced. The idea behind Deep Raider is not all clear to me, but I think it has something to do with moving the story of Tombraider to an …

A stragety game with a turn-based structure, which makes it very similar to games like Heroes and Soldiers at War. Down in Flames is set in an air-craft environment and the whole idea centres around fighting with old-fashioned airplanes.
This is certainly one of the simplest pc games I played …

Legacy of Kain has been a fairly popular game series that involves parts of fantasy mixed up with regular shoot-to-kill sort of action sequences, and has been doing it brilliantly. Defiance is, I think, the first in the series to be released on xbox, and we can see some …

Neverwinter Nights is a pure role-playing game made only for online playing, which has received a lot of positive criticism from everywhere. The genre is horror-like and filled with gothic mystery. You assume the role of someone who is to unreveal an evil conspiracy in the town of Nightwinter. …

A game being created as a direct result of the action movie with the same title doing well at the box office last year. Lawman Frank Castle is the leading charachter of this story who’s wife and daughter gets killed by criminals. Frank is devastated and makes it his …

This game is awesome if you like fast cars and I mean REALLY love them then you have to own this game. With some of the best cars available today you can burn them around places such as Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, Long Beach and many more. Also all the …

The Warriors is a fighting video game for the Xbox system, developed by Rockstar Games, and based on the cult film that gained popularity in the 1970’s. I was excited to play this game because I liked the film, and was surprised that they were making a game based …

I was excited to play X-Men Legends II: Rise of the Apocalypse because I used to follow the X-Men comics, and I played X-Men Legends, but did not like it very much, so i was hoping for an improvement. I don’t see that this game is much better …

I enjoyed Mortal Kombat: Deception because it has several modes of play. Mortal Kombat has always been about two opponents fighting each other. You can do that with MK Deception, but there is also a story adventure mode that I enjoyed very much. It’s in 3rd person view, with …

I played Shinobi for PlayStation2 for a couple hours to test out the game. The first thing that I noticed were the great cinematics. I always enjoy this beginning part of a video game, as it gives me the first impression, but of course, a game’s opening cinematics can …