Hounslow Guardian Leisure: Video game news, previews and reviews

Game review: Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll - Nintendo Wii

10:02am Friday 5th March 2010

I was surprised that so few of my friends were excited about the arrival of a new Super Monkey Ball game.

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Game review: Transformers G1 Awakening - iPhone / iPod Touch

11:26am Friday 5th March 2010

I think I was about 11 or 12 when the Transformers reached their heyday in the mid-80s so I was slightly too old to be swept up by the ‘more than meets the eye’ phenomenon.

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Game review: Echoshift - Sony PSP

3:32pm Thursday 4th March 2010

Echoshift is a mind-bending puzzle game which uses a clever time-travelling trick for solving levels.

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Game preview: Metro 2033

10:25am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

There seems to be a glut of post-apocalyptic titles hitting the shelves at the moment – perhaps because the media is so transfixed on the end of the world – be it nukes, disease or the horrible spectre of politics.

Game review: Bioshock 2 - Xbox 360

9:45am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

Raising a lot of eyebrows when it was announced, due to various development issues, Bioshock 2 is easily one of the best first person shooters to be released in the last year.

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Game review: Astro Ranch - iPhone / iPod Touch

12:50pm Monday 1st March 2010

I didn’t know running a ranch could be so much fun until I played this crazy, far-out space game.

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Game review: X2 Snowboarding - iPhone / iPod Touch

10:54am Monday 1st March 2010

Eye-catching presentation, smooth controls and fun extreme sports play, X2 Snowboarding has all the tricks in its repertoire to become the best game of its kind available for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Game review: Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars - Sony PSP

8:23pm Thursday 25th February 2010

Violent, crude and politically incorrect at every turn – yes, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on PSP is immensely fun.

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Game review: Heavy Rain - Playstation 3

11:48am Wednesday 24th February 2010

Let me get this out of the way first: Heavy Rain is not your average, bog-standard game.

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Game review: Dante's Inferno - Playstation 3

11:11am Wednesday 24th February 2010

While the idea of basing a game on a 14th century Italian poem may not occur to all of us, the developers of Dante’s Inferno have done a pretty reasonable job of transferring the feel of Dante Alighieri’s descent into hell into game form.

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