FPSs have been running a little dry when it comes to the inspiration department as of late. It seems that there’s always a Russian mad man hell bent on destroying the world as we know it with a weapon of mass destruction, or you’ll play as an American soldier fighting in the streets of a nondescript Middle-Eastern city. Bulletstorm is neither of these things. It’s a roller coaster of violence, guns and sweary mouthed anti-heroes with over the top shoot-outs, but is it as fresh a breath of air as we’d all hoped?
Review: Two Worlds II (Xbox 360)
When you have a look at other gaming websites, magazines and all of those other review type places, you have to wonder just how they manage to get RPG games out so damned fast. I mean, everyone knows Oblivion will take nigh on an eternity to get through, but then you’ll see something up in time for launch. Now this can mean one of two things, either:
A: The reviewer gets the game about a year and a half in advance and is one lucky so and so…or
B: The same reviewer just isn’t giving the game enough of a chance to really get stuck into it.
The reason why we have taken such a long time to get this particular review out is simply because we needed the time to do so. Anyone who plays anything to do with role playing will no doubt know that these can sap your life in ways daytime TV and bingo just cannot compensate for. There is no way you can say that the first Two Worlds game set the world on fire, in fact I would probably say a few people set it on fire as an effigy. The guys at Topware Interactive had a lot to work on to improve what was a slightly sub-standard first game. That’s not to say it didn’t have its followers though.
Review: The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout (Xbox 360)
It’d be immensely satisfying to start this review stating how The Biggest Loser has the perfect title because it’s a big loser. It’s not though. In fact, despite being less obviously excellent, The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout is the best of the fitness “games” currently available for Kinect, even if it does focus rather a lot on your arms.
It’s immediately obvious that this title intends to be less abstract than Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, using a backdrop of more realistic gym settings and animated characters of The Biggest Loser trainers. A 30 minute fitness test starts you off, assessing just what you’re able to withstand. If, like me, you’re in need of The Biggest Loser, it’ll happily stop after a while once you reach a point where it’s obvious that you’re beginning to struggle. The judging afterwards is pretty accurate too while not being too harsh. It determined that my weakest move was jogging (thanks to an old injury) but that I was pretty good at lunges.



