http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ A wide range of PSOne, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and retro game reviews, written by leading game reviewers. http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/psp-game-reviews/nfs-carbon-otc.html The Need For Speed juggernaut rolled on as popular as ever in 2006 with its tenth instalment Carbon appearing in various guises on more than a dozen formats. Lacking the pyrotechnics of its HD counterparts, NFS Carbon: Own The Cit Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:33:18 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ps2-game-reviews/smt-lucifer.html It seemed odd that a Japanese RPG would publicise a minor cameo from Devil May Cry star Dante extensively on its box-art, especially given just how far removed Lucifer’s Call is from the action sensibilities of the games he Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:46:50 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/psp-game-reviews/astonishia-story.html Astonishia Story’s claim to a footnote in history is that it was among the first South Korean developed RPG’s when released for the PC back in 1994. However, the first much of the wider world would have seen of it was Sun, 11 Jul 2010 0:06:36 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/psp-game-reviews/sf-logans-shadow.html Logan’s Shadow is a game that feels so high-production, so meticulously designed and so chocked full of content, that you can’t help but wonder why Sony didn’t champion this adventure more. Given that action &lsq Tue, 6 Jul 2010 1:16:43 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ps2-game-reviews/cttr.html Crash Bandicoot seemed to be on an all-too-familiar descent from prominence following the departure of its creator Naughty Dog, with the so-so Nitro Kart and lacklustre platformer TwinSanity failing to recapture the one-time media Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:26 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ps3-game-reviews/dantes-inferno.html Long-time purveyors of a conveyor belt culture that has seen a slew of frequently-updated incremental sequels, EA have won back a lot of support recently with a concerted attempt to promote new (and sometimes risky) intellectual p Tue, 29 Jun 2010 0:12:28 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ps2-game-reviews/wipeout-pulse.html If ever you wanted a textbook example of how not to go about PR, then surely the farcical PS2 release of WipEout Pulse in 2009 is it. Sony’s plan of attack seemed less intent on marketing the game and more with trying to den Mon, 21 Jun 2010 1:08:23 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/ps3-game-reviews/bayonetta.html Given the praise that Bayonetta was met with and the creative clout behind the project, it’s hard not to feel a little disappointed by the end product. The scores it obtained throughout much of the gaming press suggested som Sat, 12 Jun 2010 1:48:32 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/psp-game-reviews/half-minute-hero.html It says a lot for Half-Minute Hero that its warts ‘n’ all homage to the 8-bit era amounts to only a fraction of the games enormous appeal. Beneath its retro veneer is a remarkably creative, effective and enjoyable titl Sat, 29 May 2010 12:11:56 GMT http://www.gamesbooksfilms.com/film-reviews/behind-the-sun.html The success of Walter Salles’s 1998 classic Central Station symbolically marked the end of two decades of trauma for the Brazilian film industry. It was the harbinger of a new era of quality filmmaking not crippled by either Tue, 25 May 2010 22:33:45 GMT