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After a first test dedicated to "classic" and Trick Race mode and a second meeting devoted to multiplayer, with the impact of our third revival of SSX, held in London last EA Showcase that allowed us to return to face the single player game. This time, however, we enjoyed the go-ahead on all three modes, then the emotions trying Survive format.

Also because of the sinking of the RPG's official Pirates of the Caribbean , space for a pirate RPG background there is so much, especially when the intention is to explore the fascinating life of the outlaws of the seven seas a little 'more all-round than has been proposed so far.

it was now growing back in 2001, when Halo: Combat Evolved came on the scene in an instant and forever transformed the essence of first-person shooter: from that moment on a genre that was rampant on the PC began to look in a increasingly convinced the console, laying the groundwork for the invasion of authentic FPS so fashionable today. Bungee did it to demonstrate that the dynamics of first person shooter could also great with an integrated control system different from the canonical mouse & keyboard, by clearing the fun in the first person to millions and millions of fans bearing pad (or k, in reality there would be the glorious past of Rare dell'N64 with triton, but we do not do the fussy, by). Two decades later, Halo has become a real phenomenon, capable of transcending the boundaries of gaming, with forty million copies sold, 3.3 billion hours spent online fights, novels, comic books, action figures and whatnot. To celebrate the tenth birthday of the title that started everything, so here is to get Halo Anniversary HD remake sauce on 15th November of X360 relives the emotions of the past.

It is nearly twenty years after the first of the Syndicate and a few less than that of the only official sequel appeared up to now, Syndicate Wars. All this time, over and over again we talked about, rumored, hoped for a return of the historic brand created by Peter Molyneux, but only in recent years, voices have become more concrete. It all revolved around a name: Star breeze. We still remember when, in late 2008, we visited their studios in Stockholm to try to preview Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena , and in front of the ban on visiting a certain area of the building, we were assured that yes, in there were working right on Syndicate. Three years have passed and here we are, veterans from the first test game.

Two months after the first impact at Games com, the ' EA Showcase in London has given us the opportunity to try again the intriguing FIFA Street and FIFA to examine for the first edition PlayStation Life. Let's start from the first: if in August we were thrust into his hand in front of the controller to a pre-alpha version called, this time the game seemed much more solid and in an advanced state of development, with access to different options and well-defined elements game play that characterize it. And the impression that we learned from it is undoubtedly positive, or at least good potential. This acquires greater value if we consider that the writer is not a huge fan of arcade sports titles blatantly.

The idea behind the project was one that denies the soul of FIFA Street appeared in the last generation of consoles, and aims to reproduce the true digital version practiced in the street football pitches around the world.

While the rival DC Comics rages in video games with Batman, Marvel's heroes through a period of great difficulty, especially on the "mutant". Closed on strand X-Men Legends and abandoned the various covenants, Activision choose a risky road on several fronts: to produce an imitator of God of War, and entrust it to Silicon Knights, from the time of study Eternal Darkness has not regained his verve as the original.

The story has a pivotal role in the game given the frequency of multiple-choice dialogues and meetings with key people in the line X-Men at all levels. Unfortunately, the premise that moves all the various subplots are granted a total of: the human-mutant conflict read hundreds of comics to the movies, and also lived in three films in the first series.

Rotastic We met for the first time in Cologne remained enthusiastic, so we looked forward to its release and we finally managed to get their hands on to deal with its 70 levels of interactivity rolling.

As the most attentive surely remember, the basic principle is quite simple and can be summed up in a few points: jump in the air, hanging by the rope suspended from pivot, roll and jump to get the drive shaft to another, collecting the gems on the way scattered around the screen, in order to activate the exit. All this is accomplished by pressing the A button, to cling to, and use the back of the pad to change the direction of motion, clockwise or counterclockwise. These are the basics. Then, of course, the game exploded in a blaze of variations on this theme.

Also this year we approach the new appointment with Dragon Ball, whose origins refer to Japan but is now a fixture of autumn in the West exit. Tenkaichi Dragon Ball Z Ultimate promises to be a closer adaptation of the original series, especially for art direction, thanks to the many links with the TV series and animated interludes that distinguish the single-player campaign.

We have always associated the name of Big Fish Games Casual market with more stringent than those of the puzzle "match 3", of a thousand clones of Diner Dash, and, above all, based adventure games hidden object genres that have made ​​the fortune of actually the publisher of the PC platform. The Wii debut arrives precisely with the number of points in the field of Big Fish Adventure, Mystery Case Files, which have already gone a dozen chapters in six years - all exclusively in digital delivery and some even-edition collectibles.

If you have the latest meetings in Cologne and Paris, we were pleasantly reassured, the test conducted in London, in the context of recent events and Showcase, there has definitely convinced that Need for Speed: The Run has the credentials to be a arcade driving game fun, compelling and altogether quite strong and particular identity apart from the competition (even inside the same mark Need for Speed).

In the months since its release, almost a year, Gran Turismo 5 has seen an impressive number of patches, if you count that is a console game. We are in production levels for the PC than once (even modern games for PC, now I see so many). Sign that the creative team has recognized the deficiencies of many standard game, trying to correct them with various changes culminating in more than a maxi patch 2.0 gigabytes.

The stylish dim the EL Jaded, disco-themed restaurant in Milan Arabic, welcomed us to the presentation of 3 Uncharted: Drake's Deception. A must-see event, which has served as an appetizer to the upcoming release of the next big thing Naughty Dog license plate: a highly anticipated title, no doubt destined to rage autumn-winter season (the period that has always been a real massacre portfolios, fought at masterpieces in the round of shots!). Among arabesque frescoes, kilos and hookah, we were able to quickly test a demo including the famous passage from the castle in flames (seen and reviewed between E3 and Gamecock Sony United ...) and adrenaline sequence on a plane (a boarding solo not entirely conventional and Drake-style, put it this way ...).

Despite its ups and downs techno-style, its conceptual laziness and ambition, and a total carat weight of a decidedly not comparable to the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution has proved one of the most interesting films this year and a valuable starting point for a revival of the seminal saga of Ion Storm. The more than thirty hours spent by the undersigned to complete the adventure at the highest level of difficulty proved to be reasonably satisfactory in terms of sheer longevity, although it remained, papal candidate, the feeling that you could do something more with regard to the duration but especially with regard to quantity and variety of environments.

 A gap also officially recognized, as admitted by the same development team with a sort of mea culpa extern few days after the release of Human Revolution. The guys at Eidos Montreal, however, have not given up, because in reality for some time were at work in order to fill that gap.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is the classic Capon style, and commercial operation is in place somewhere in the long line of cows milked that connects the thousand visas every single remix Street Fighter appeared to eight thousand versions of every single Resident Evil . It is, in essence, a new version of Dead Rising 2, with more and less Chuck Greene Frank West, with more and less sandbox multiplayer with more than new ones are telling you that "the plot is the same, have not changed anything," but less innovation than would be expected from a product boxed and sold in stores, though at a reduced price.

The business done by Capcom through his studies of Vancouver, now definitely the daddy of the series orphans Kanji Infuse provides for the staging of a remix, a remix of what fans of the series played last fall. What role can have the economy of the series, the narrative point of view, this Off the Record is a bit 'hard to understand.

On 30 September the disappointing MMORPG from Square Enix has made ​​its first birthday ... but there is something to celebrate? Judging from the words of Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, which just a few days earlier had ruled that the mark concisely Final Fantasy was heavily damaged from Final Fantasy XIV, there would be little to be happy. Words, his actions, which weigh a ton because not only the game but also on the shoulders of Naoki Yoshida, who was left with the daunting task of bringing Final Fantasy XIV on track. And you can not say that there is feeling, as we had already told another in our previous article. Beyond the "encouraging" expressions of Wada, players of Final Fantasy XIV can now look to the future with renewed hope, not only to apply the changes introduced with the arrival of patch 1.19, but also for the unexpected announcement through a letter from the official site addressed to the fans, a total "revamp" of the game, that will transform it - at the end of 2012 - Final Fantasy XIV 2.0. But let's go in order, because the transition from the current 2.0 version of the game and will be punctuated by a series of patches, but especially from the return, starting from next month, the monthly subscription.

Football Manager has become synonymous with football management simulation. For years, the Sports Interactive title can boast the scepter of undisputed leader of the category, thanks to constant refinement of the game play mechanics and a continuous input of new options. The situation has not changed for the 2012 edition, which features some interesting new products that will be appreciated by fans of the genre by those who want to sit on the bench for the first time.

Might & Magic Heroes VI will take place in 564 YSD*, roughly some 400 years before Might & Magic Heroes V, at the time of the second Blood Moon Eclipse, and the Rise of Khan Belted, the Demon Sovereign A legendary Archangel General, killed during the war of the Elder races, is resurrected. Under the cover of preparations for the upcoming Demon invasion, he plots to recover his powers and take control of Ashen while eradicating his ancient enemies. He underestimates however, the power of the all-too-human Griffin dynasty. Heroes VI tells the story of the Griffin dynasty, when they were still Dukes of the Holy Empire, and not yet sitting on the Imperial throne (like in Heroes 5 and Clash of Heroes). The Griffin Duchy is east of the Empire, a region that would correspond to the Slavic nations in our own world. At the dynasties origins, The Griffin Duke Pavel* was a zealous servant of the Light and a trusted lieutenant of the Falcon Emperor. He met his demise defending his own duchy from a Demon host summoned by the dying wish of a desperate enemy. Patel’s heroic last stand would ensure the survival of his son, Slave, who was only a boy at the time of these events. Patel’s sister Svetlana*, who had left her homeland to become a prominent Necromancer in the Seven Cities, was called back to act as regent to Slave and educate him in the ways of the Griffin. Fifteen years and a war have past. Duke Slave of Griffin is now the father of five promising children. These are the main Heroes of the Heroes 6 campaign, and they will lead different factions to battle.

"Knights of the Sky. Squadrons RAF" - fully three-dimensional arcade game 16 missions throughout Europe. The player will have to side with the Allies in World War II. London and Norway, Denmark and Berlin ... Game missions will affect all the locations at which the British aces defended his honor. 30 models of aircraft and ships, real landscapes and stunning visual effects are waiting for you. The "Knights of the Sky" we tried to preserve the unique atmosphere of the air battles of World War II. At that time there was no clever automatic control - full control of their pilot’s planes.

Exactly one month before departure, we jumped at the chance to try Sky rim in the London offices of Bethesda. In the face of new, massive RPG the Elder Scrolls series, the three hours available to us are blown away in the blink of an eye, but not before giving us the opportunity to touch and explore some aspects of the game that we were particularly the heart. Since the creation of the character:

Known facts: The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an action-RPG set in Talkie’s fantasy universe focusing on the exploits of three heroes and unusual events and some new environments, which of course does not save links of various kinds to people, places and situations in the novels of British writer recounted. New facts: at a recent press event during which we could sample more closely co-op to three, the boys of the development team told us that the formula of the game is very "hardcore", levels of Demon's Souls, and that another of its strengths is that it is able to put on a looting fever comparable to Diablo.

When I first started to surface details of Batman: Arkham City, especially when it was announced the setting of the game - not the insane asylum of Arkham, but an entire slice of the city of Gotham - here in the Tower are Video game .it also surfaced a few reservations. He was afraid the rest of us, in short, that the structure of free-roaming distorting the balance of the sublime predecessor, drowning the mix of fierce fist fights and phases stealth, exploration by bat-gadgets and puzzles in a sea of ​​nonsense and secondary missions tedious journeys across the map. Fortunately there are only a few hours of play to make us realize that we were wrong.

For fans of strategy games "old style" Paradox Interactive is a steel reference point, with titles such as Victoria, Crusader Kings or Europe Universalism to represent shining examples of deep and complex game. With the team here today Sengoku Paradox Interactive has decided to adapt its rigorous philosophy "simulation" to feudal Japan of 1400: a setting particular, especially because of the subtle policies that ran this unique country at the time, which is reflected in a particularly challenging game and layered.

Japan in mid-1400 was not a particularly comfortable. Dozens and dozens of clan conflict between them, a pretty precarious economic situation and the current shogun (Ashgabat) did not have a broad consensus among the various daimyo (feudal lords important at the time). This situation resulted in mid-century in what has been called the Sengoku era, full of conflicts and will continue until the seventeenth century.

Loved, hated, debated, analyzed, Braid was the game that three years ago led the players to "need" to know Jonathan Blow, because for better or for worse it was impossible not to bump into someone who talked about it. The fact that a seemingly innocuous two-dimensional platform game, originally released on XBLA, could generate so much hype, it was also a substantial novelty, not to mention the many awards and sold copies.

Here we are the fourth and final DLC for Fallout: New Vegas after three previous expansions, which, for better or for worse, have continued the saga of the shipper with great joy of those who have enjoyed the last effort at Obsidian Entertainment. After two postponements, which did not leave anything encouraging leaked (many were afraid of a very buggy DLC on the continuing delays), Lonesome Road is now available for download and we tested the Xbox 360 version can be downloaded from the Xbox Marketplace Live for 800 Microsoft points.

The first chapter of the new WRC series, Sony and designer outputs after the long break, he left quite a bitter taste in the mouths of the fans while showing some encouraging signs. Despite the experience of our team in Milan Milestone (famous thanks to SBK), many imperfections affect the overall quality of the game is on the technical side is in the driving model. It is no coincidence that the work of improvement on the follow-affected part of the "physical" and then the sensations associated with the steering wheel, gear shift and brake.

Among the many games presented in Cologne difficult to detect because they occupied a secluded location, there were curious titles like Blades of Time, published by Konami. One location, hidden inside the stand public offering two playable levels: an exploratory phase and a fight against a boss.

The first appointment was as much chance: no one seemed to slip away, but only because there were other titles Konami booth holding court, and while we waited our turn with Silent Hill Downpour, we approached the screen.

About a year after the original game for the Wii (and which can govern the review here on Videogame. it), Activision and Euro COM back on our screens with Golden eye 007 Reloaded, a revised version of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 what was, in turn, a remake of the classic Nintendo 64. Obviously, Euro COM has taken steps to update the graphics and bring it up to the standards of high definition consoles and the game also features a novel new way, MI6, Bond puts it in the middle of a series of disconnected from the main story missions with objectives different and require different approaches depending on the situation. Last week we were invited by Activision in London to look at the game and try it first hand in all its modes on Xbox 360.

Four years ago Crysis came revolutionizing the PC market (not just) the view of the first-person shooter, already profoundly changed by the push of free-roaming "predecessor" spiritual Far Cry. Crytek's shooter is revealed not only a true miracle of technique (just think of the destructibility of the environment), but he allowed the German team to set up a thrilling game play, free, and sufficiently non-linear with the invention of the tactical NanoTite. He came out a success for over three million copies that he had to confront three problems of no small account: on one side hardware requirements too exorbitant for most users (at least in 2007), the other a less successful second part of first multiplayer component and a somewhat 'rough compared with that of other AAA shooter era.

After a fleeting appearance rather than on the Wii, as well-received by critics, House of the Dead: OVERKILL (case obliges) is preparing to return to a field more suited to him, the market for PlayStation 3. In addition to being a title-style horror very violent and rude, and poorly suited to Nintendo, this edition presents in full support Move to the device. We tested a few levels below you can find our impressions.

We must remember above all the news inserted in content and design: besides the classic "lick of paint" graphics, improved lighting and in detail, there are two exclusive levels and various bonus content. In these new stages, moreover, driving a pair of strippers appeared only as non-player characters in the original: Varlet and Candy.

To review a game like Vindicates (Mamboing Heroes is the Korean title), as well as in theory, any other MMORPG, it is clear that not just a handful of days, which is why we decided to bring you our impressions hot in the preview you're reading , hoping that they can devote more time to play in the future. Indeed, given the current overcrowding of proposals in this area - free-to-play fantasy, so to speak - it's also good to do once a distinction: Vindicates is a title perhaps more ambitious than the average, because of some peculiarities It is also yet another result of a mentality of game design, which by its nature can not please everyone. Deepen this issue but obviously, in the meantime, let's focus on the premises.

With the two popular sections of Samurai, who have all the rage thanks to the graphics fine, mad finger Games has carved an important place among the best developers for IOS and the name of this team is destined to take on the Czech even more important with Shadow gun. Available on the App Store a few days, the third effort of Mad finger Games has made headlines several months ago with the first screenshots showing graphics quality never before seen on a mobile device. The hype has soared with the first movie and the trailer for the launch of two weeks ago and here we are at last to try this third-person shooter, described by many as the answer to Gears of War mobile.

There was once a Battlefield, and Team Fortress Enemy Territory, and fortunately for us - apart from the last - I am still here to entertain millions of players: Battlefield 3 has been near the exit and is, indeed, depopulated in beta right these days, while Team Fortress 2 has recently moved to swell the ranks of such free-to-play (as if to say that if you've never tried it, now you have no more excuses). Even if we make a more general, not just the shooter classes, more devoted to strategy, no one is entitled to assert that there is in circulation an FPS that is right for her, is so layered and diverse offering. And so we come to the point: Nuclear Dawn was really needed? Do not worry, we will not respond immediately, because otherwise what you would want to read the second page of the article?

From whatever angle you look at it, Nuclear Dawn has the air of a game made with such passion and stubbornness:

2003-2012. Nine years is almost an eternity in the world of video games, especially when the face of your landscape has changed from referring to it as well. For a series that goes back to enter the market after such a time the outlook (and the consequent risks of failure) is manifold: the sequel to all the effects? Ownership of this and that aspect of random fashion, just to ride the wave, without shame for themselves or for the fans? Reboot? Returning the very same baby food, whistling as if nothing had happened? Leave everything at the touch of a button to win? Judging from what has allowed us to see it in her studies in London, for Max Payne 3 Rock star seems to have chosen the first way, the simplest, plausible, natural, but perhaps also one of the most difficult and courageous. Besides, even if once you were what gave the form, substance and method to modern third-person shooter, can not be easy to decide to return to the field, certainly not after the Gears of War will have risen from under the chair my ass, making you fall behind in the era of cover shooter to the ground and surrounded on all sides.

Many games come lately with single player campaigns that are less than a visit to the dentist. Call of Duty When a relatively short single player was coming up, it seemed inevitable that this error was not in Battlefield would go. Now, however, announced that seven hours anyway you've finished the campaign. Although there is still a co-op mode that is separate from the single player.

Dark tunnels, incessant beeping, slobbering aliens coming out from the walls, a flamethrower as the only lifeline. It would seem a sequence of Aliens - The Final, or one of the many nightmare situations of Alien vs. Predator (Sierra shooter, not the movie by Paul WAS Anderson), but in hindsight are all peeking in NEX, one of the first team-based shooter available for iPhone and iPod touch that goes back to settings, iconography and storytelling in its horror and science fiction masterpiece by James Cameron.

In fact, we control a team of NEX typical space marine who have the thankless task of wiping out a colony of aliens repulsive from a space station, there is no real plot as well as our alter egos (rose to command a maximum of three) are people without a history and a past.

The beat is a genre that has not yet found a great expansion in the App Store and so fans Fighter Street, Tekken, Mortal Combat and Soul Caliber now must make do with very few titles, most from low production. It was time, in short, a publisher of a certain level would invest time and resources in a 3D fighting game and the answer comes to us from Game loft with Blades of Fury.

How do you know right away by looking at the screenshots and considering the nature of "army" of game play, Game loft has clearly remade the epic of Soul Caliber and it is no accident that some people call the game very closely the standard license plate fees fighters Nam co.

Dungeon Hunter went to meet an unprecedented publishing for Game loft, with plenty of suspense for a bug in the first version of the game that forced the French company to withdraw the product from the App Store and finally put it back after about ten days running.

The bug that has caused this little hiccup prevented to continue in a level making it impossible to complete the game, but now that version 1.4.0 is available for a few days we could not resist this safe (and another) Game loft bestseller that, after the GTA Gangster homage’s to West Coast and Hustle with Call of Duty Modern Combat: Sandstorm, now takes aim at Diablo, Nox, Titan Quest, Dungeon Siege, Sacred and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, or better than the action- RPG has offered in recent years.

Doom Resurrection has only partially appeased the hunger of the classic shooter that fans of the series expect for months on iPhone and iPod Touch, because the approach chosen by railing shooter by id Software has left a lot to what is the real original spirit of the saga. John Car Mack, however, has finally given the light Doom Classic, the first real remake of Doom for the two devices from Apple that it returns to confront monsters and assorted demons, sixteen years after the release of the masterpiece that would later trigger a genre.

Classic Doom offers thirty-six levels divided into four sections, namely the original three plus a fourth created especially for the occasion, and as early as 1993, also sees the presence of cooperative and competitive multiplayer (Death match classic) up to a maximum of four players, though limited to local Wi-Fi and not, as hoped, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi online (3G was rejected almost immediately by Car Mack for performance-optimal level table).

Just make a jump on Metacritic (average 83 out of 100) or on IMDB (average 8.9) to realize how Avatar has been so triumphantly welcomed by American critics, nearly all agree in assigning the new sci-fi blockbuster James Cameron the title of the watershed between the "old" and the new fantasy film, and not just for adding (supposedly amazing) of 3D.

The fact is that its video game from Ubisoft (especially on the Wii) has not received as many enthusiasm, however, confirming a tie-in above average and giving a fairly good idea of what we see in the movie-level environments, creatures and concepts.

We therefore with some curiosity the version of the game for iPhone and iPod touch created by Game loft, especially after the promotional trailers we were dazzled with a truly remarkable graphics and after ads for the French talking about longevity estimated seven to ten hours of play.

After Modern Combat: Sandstorm, also hailed as the best pages on our first-person shooter for iPhone and iPod Touch , you knew that sooner or later Game loft would shift his attention to science fiction, so satisfying, after fans of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, even those of Halo, Dead Space, Doom and Metroid Prime. It is precisely these tutelary deities to have deeply inspired the development of NOVA, greeted by a little 'all over the world press as the "Halo for iPhone" and in fact very close, at least for some setting and game play, the classic Bungee.

After the Middle East Modern Combat: Sandstorm, NOVA fact leads us to a distant future where Earth has for decades accustomed to space travel on a grand scale, is facing a very serious threat in the form of repulsive and evil aliens. As both a super marine we are called to resolve the unpleasant situation started our mission on board a spaceship, and then move on some planets just like dear old Master Chief.

Period full of satisfactions for Prince of Persia. The Mike Newell has already grossed more than three hundred million dollars around the world, Prince of Persia: The Sands Forget getting a good audience and the critics also praised the return of the series with a more classic and traditional.

In addition, the remake of the first iPhone (and legendary) debut in the series dating back to 1989 rose almost immediately in the first rankings of the App Store and to make matters worse, Game loft has just released a new version of Prince of Persia: Warrior (the 1.0.7) for Apple's portable devices. The game was already released it in early June, but a graphic bug made ​​it practically unusable menus, and so the French ran for cover, temporarily removing the game from the App Store and inserting it back two weeks later in a final version at last.

Game loft’s specialty has always been inspired by the classics of every kind and to re-propose portable versions, most often characterized by an excellent technical department but also by a new-factor dangerously low.

It happened pretty much any game for the French and we saw all kinds of mobile version of the inevitable 'Made in Game loft, "it was the first person shooter, football, free-roaming action, real-time strategy, and so on. Hero of Sparta II, which follows two years of a first episode of success brought on nearly every mobile platform (IOS, PSP, NDS, Android, Java ME), is no exception and is clearly inspired by the saga of God of War, by which incorporates many elements including the background mythology, the boss of considerable size, the furious battles (with lots of combos) and Quick Time Event.

Lately, the autumn period coincides with an increasingly large number of first-person shooter wars, which can steal even Game loft. If fact, if the PC and console should do with the recent Medal of Honor and the fresh publication of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the Apple device may rely on a heavyweight like Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus, the sequel to the Modern Combat: Sandstorm, which is so popular last year.

The French developer and manufacturer has never shone for the originality factor in its many proposals for iPhone and iPad, while maintaining a very high standard of quality always dealt with in any kind (sports, action, platform), has always preferred to play it safe referring to best-selling shooter also in other platforms. NOVA closely recalled the epic story of Halo 2 and Modern Combat: Black Pegasus does the same with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which remains in effect the title of reference for this highly anticipated sequel.

So far the series of Need for Speed ​​in touch version has produced two top titles for fans of the genre, still considered among the best racing game available on the App Store. Need For Speed ​​Need For Speed ​​Undercover and Shift (the latter also published for iPad) have in fact very large crop from both critics and audiences, combining a high level of technical department at a control system for nothing "traumatic" but not too simplistic. After these exploits tries again with Electronic Arts Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, available for a few days in conjunction with the HD versions for PC and console from which, however, differs greatly.

The first difference of this port for iPhone and iPod Touch is only the presence of police cars, while other versions of the game allow you to choose between police and riders in a classic battle between cops and robbers. But here we can only play as the police dealing with more than twenty missions and unlock throughout the game fourteen other cars (in addition to that available now).

If Infinity Blade is not the most anticipated game of all time on the App Store, we are missing very little. After the tech demo Epic Citadel, which a few months ago had shown what they are able to layout the latest Apple device, Infinity Blade is the first title to bring up the iPhone and iPad Unreal Engine 3 and its resulting hype graphic impact which resulted from their impressive early films, which have exhibited textures, details and polygonal models ever seen in any game for portable devices (pace of Rage).

But in a few knew what it was exactly Infinity Blade. Epic Games has released few details because the game play and there are those hoping for an RPG, who in an action in the third person (so fashionable at this time) and who in a mix of two genres. In fact, the final result does not belong to any of these three banks and many remain so disappointed by what has been the study site in California. Infinity Blade is in fact a kind of vague beaten up of binary elements realistic you can accomplish in two hours and that, among other things, lack of a multiplayer section and includes the same five or six locations for 'entire game.

Be true that Game loft has based his fortune by borrowing ideas and structures of the most successful videogames of recent years, but it is equally true that the quality of its games is almost always very high and it is thanks to some of his titles if your gaming on the iPhone and iPad has now reached a certain maturity in many genres.

Take, for example Dungeon Hunter, were it not for the touch controls, we could almost confuse it with a remake of Diablo II, Sacred, Dungeon Siege or Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance so great is the similarity with these great Action-RPG in the past. The truth is that Dungeon Hunter, despite a near zero-originality factor, proved to be a fun way and well done and has to do the same Dungeon Hunter 2, the sequel that we have tried in the HD version for iPad and that, apart the introduction of cooperative multiplayer, promises not to overturn nothing compared to the winning formula of its predecessor.

Dead Space is not just a game of two million copies that three years ago terrified half the world and arrives now, at the same time with Dead Space 2 on Apple's portable devices with a whole new way.

The creature is Visceral Games In fact, a real sensory experience with everything that you can take today in a horror game. Gifts film (Alien, Event Horizon), constant voltage, constant sense of danger, noise made ​​in detail, atmosphere perpetually dark, blood and gore, monsters and deformed creatures. An authentic sample of the horror rarely seen on the iPhone and iPad (just Resident Evil 4 and a few others), but the most surprising of Dead Space for IOS devices is the extreme resemblance to what was seen on the PC and HD game consoles, in addition to its nature from episode of reconciliation between the first and the second installment of the series.

Iron Monkey Studios is in fact not limited to just a remake of Dead Space, but has created a title with its plot, its character and twelve well-defined levels "self", although things like the monstrous creatures (the Necromorphs), the look of our alter egos, and many others found the weapons can not be said certainly unusual. Dead Space puts us in the shoes of Vandal, a follower of the Church of Unit logy who finds himself aboard a space station anchored to a huge asteroid.

The action-RPG fans will find many interesting titles on the App Store, not least quell' Aral on: Sword and Shadow who has reaped great acclaim, is by far the most comprehensive and fascinating response to those who apply for an extensive, long-lasting and deep. Some months later it is the turn of Game loft, which true to its policy of homage’s to classic offers more or less recent Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden. This is a title much less deep Aral on: Sword realistic and Shadows on the side, but sharing the game with different aspects of Crescent Moon Games and crosses them with other historical sagas like Zelda (with an homage to Mr. Miyamoto equine) and Grandma.

Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden certainly has many elements typical of dozens of other action-RPG, fantasy-like atmosphere of magic (the centrality of crystals and other artifacts), saved the princess from the beginning in a bucolic village in Green, the tragic event that triggers the reaction of the protagonist, the horse as a means of transport, chests to open, people turn to for missions (could not miss the yellow question mark above their head?), side-quests, rocs and goblins to combat, flying ships to navigate in the various regions of the map and the usual dungeons.

Almost two months ago, Mortal Combat landed for the first time on the iPhone, bringing with it high expectations especially after the great success of Street Fighter IV, which showed how the touch controls (if designed to perfection) could make any fighting game playable. For the debut of the popular series of Midway on the IOS device, EA Mobile has chosen Ultimate Mortal Combat 3, first published in '96 for Saturn and SNES and landed over the years also NDS, Play station 2 and Xbox 360.

Tradition has it that Ed Boon (the father of the series with John Tobias) has always been considered the 2D best episode of the series and, with the new Mortal Combat Warner Bros. Games just around the corner, there's nothing better than to brush up this classic of the '90s and return it as food to fans of fighting games more gore than ever.

The version we reviewed is the iPad, available on the App Store a few days and, apart from some small addition, almost identical to the previous iPhone. We are not referring only to the increase of resolution and the more comfortable interacting with the icons on the display, but also to the exclusive duel mode that allows you to play one on one iPad. In this case, the double set of commands (one right and one left), but despite the generous size of the screen, it is quite uncomfortable to play with a friend pretty much attacked us and to control their own space fighter becomes much too small.

Rainbow Six for the landing on the iPhone, Game loft has betrayed the original nature of the tactical shooter series, with all the risks involved with an ill-suited to the genre such as touch. Yet the French publisher has already proven to make excellent first-person shooter ( Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus , NOVA 2), for which Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard adds a new depth to the cooperative and a plot-style spy perhaps a little 'abused but well engineered. All indications however short, expect a very interesting way, that is, among other things, the return of the series to three years away by the excellent Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.