Read about how we learned to love a game after years of distaste for it.
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Silent Bomber
We have a quick look back at what made this oft-forgotten bomb-’em-up so much fun.
Metal Head
This game promised a bright future for the 32X in 1995, but does it work in the modern paradigm?
Jaws
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your Speccy…
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TxK Review
We take Jeff Minster’s awesome new PS Vita shooter for a spin.
FUTURE CLASSIC
The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
Pitch Black might not be an amazing film licence, but it made a great videogame.
Jetpac
Darran takes a fond look back at Ultimate Play The Game’s very first release.
Total Recall
A little behind the scenes insight into Ocean’s fun shooter.
Super Thunder Blade
We revisit one of the very first games released for Sega Mega Drive.
Cowboy Shootout
The BBC Micro wasn’t just for education, as this hectic shooter proves.
Xybots
Ed Logg’s superb shooter never gets enough love. Here’s some love for it.
Demon Attack
This shoot-’em-up isn’t just a great Intellivision release, but a fantastic early entry in the genre.
Exolon
Darran looks back at Raffaele Cecco’s superb flick-screen shooter.
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Resogun Review
Sony’s PS4 exclusive certainly looks pretty, but is it the PS4 saviour that many are claiming it to be. Darran Jones gets trigger happy.
Marathon Trilogy
The Marathon Trilogy line of titles were among the greatest in First Person Shooting history, introducing (and popularising) many of the concepts we now take for granted.
TRON Deadly Discs
Probably one of the most unsung video games ever created, on its host hardware, Deadly Discs is still a maddeningly addictive experience…
Defence Force
Find out why the Oric community loves this frantic shoot-’em-up.
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible provides a different experience to the other third person action and shooter releases on N64…
Carnival
Carnival is another one of those early memories I have of video games and the Atari 2600 console…
Demon Attack
Probably one of the more overlooked shooters in the Atari 2600’s library, Demon Attack could very well be dismissed by gamers at first glance as a near copy of Phoenix, but I feel this is doing a huge discredit to the quality of game players can find in Demon Attack…
Earth Defense Force (Super E.D.F)
Shooters have been a video-game institution for decades…
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
How Treasure and Hitmaker joined forces to make a GBA classic
Zombies
Zombies is a great horror title released for the SNES & Megadrive!
Wings of Fury
The goal of this game is very simple; destroy everything in sight…
Space Raiders
The ZX81 was a little marvel of a computer…
Galaxions
I remember way back in 1985 when I first bought this game…
The Devil Rides In
Ok, during this review I will try to work out why I am currently addicted to this old as the hills Spectrum game.
Moon Buggy
Based upon the classic 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol by Irem, it soon quickly arrived to our system a mere three years later near as soon after we tore off the festive wrapper off our good old grey breadbin on 1984 Christmas morning.
Gradius III
It is amazing to think how many game genres have been perfected on the SNES…
Ikari Warriors
Ikari Warriors is a 1986 arcade game by SNK. The player takes the role of commando-like warriors named Ralf and Clark, who must try to reach the village of Ikari and rescue Colonel Cook.
Platoon
The first casualty of war is innocence…
Schizoids
When Imagine were good they were very, very good… but when they were bad they were awful…
Crossbow
There’s nothing, as a young boy, quite like having a solid weapon in your hand…
FUTURE CLASSIC
P.N.03
The Capcom exclusive that’s the stranger’s shoot-’em-up you’ve ever played
Cosmic Cruiser
Ah Imagine, the dream company of the eighties…
Sonic's Schoolhouse
What is this I don't even
I don't remember ever getting this game, but it's not hard to imagine why I have it…
Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear To The Rescue
Oh God I love this game. Oh God I love it more when I got it on my PlayStation. A Third Person Shooter where you kill Stinky Petes and Zurgs Evil
Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom
Do you have eye problems? No… Migraines? No… well don’t feel left out because ten minutes in the company of the US Gold game Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom and you’ll soon be suffering from both of the above…
Alien Syndrome
Ridley Scott influenced video games more than most think…
Blue Max 2001
This is a sequel to Synapse's Blue Max…