GAMES

  • The Stardust & Moonbeams Issue

    Dante’s Inferno

    Dante's Inferno is a good game only if you don't want much out of your video games.

    Stephen Lea Sheppard
  • The Seeing Trails Issue

    Forza Motorsport 3

    Forza Motorsport 3 really is quite good, in a lot of clever ways. Once again I am reminded that I like a good racing game, even though I hardly ever play them.

    Stephen Lea Sheppard
  • The Mexican Issue

    Ikaruga

    The most legendary of shmup games amongst people who don't self-identify as shmup fans, Ikaruga is now on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008 after seeing release on the GameCube in 2003, the Dreamcast in 2002, and Japanese arcades in 2001.

    Stephen Lea Sheppard
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  • The Horror Issue

    Games

    RESIDENT EVIL 4When did video games start to get good again? All year I’ve been pissing away my life playing shit like Gran Tursimo 89, Gloria Hunniford’s Happy Shopper 5 and

    Syrup Davies
  • The Tidbits Issue

    Games

    SHADOW THE HEDGEHOGThe doctor told me to stop playing computer games in 1999 because he said a lot of the games brought on my epilepsy and I’d just blackout if the graphics got too freaky

    Keith Warren, Fruity Mcginty, Syrup Davies
  • The Drugs Issue

    Games

    If you didn’t have a car or a friend with a car in Liverpool your life was restricted to drinking in the park or sniffing glue.

    Syrup Davies, Ralph Mcwhirter
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  • The Education Issue

    Games

    Eidos have tried to tackle the topic of the Vietnam War in video game format. This is no small task, and the list of failed films, books and music can attest to this.

    Lil' Chip Withers, Syrup Davies
  • The Design Issue 2004

    Games

    Fuck PC-quality graphics and the “taste and smell” extension.

    Syrup Davies
  • The Hate Issue

    Games

    The new Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is pretty good but all the hateful extra features are totally superfluous to the action.

    Syrup Davies
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  • The Party Issue

    Games

    I don't understand games that strive to reflect the total fucking banality and pointlessness of real life.

    Syrup Davies
  • The Obsessions Issue

    Games

    Despite the excellent Manhunt being a game where you play a muscled guy in a vest who gropes other muscled guys in vests in alleyways, nobody has actually pointed out that the whole "stealth" genre may be a training tool/masturbation aid for in...

    Syrup Davies
  • The Happiness Issue

    Games

    We review Metroid Prime and The Two Towers.

    VICE Staff