Racing Games

REVIEW: Driver San Francisco (PS3)

While it has its faults, Driver: San Francisco is a triumphant return to form for the once-great Driver series, following the awfulness that was the clunky DRIV3R on PS2 and Xbox. It dumps all the Grand Theft Auto-inspired on-foot missions and shooting and returns to the essence of what made the original Driver games great […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Hyundai iLoad

Let’s get the most annoying aspect of the Hyundai iLoad out of the way first – the key. The key for the iLoad isn’t so much of a problem in itself – after all it is a key, it does what keys are supposed to do; start the vehicle. Rather it is the positioning of […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Skoda Fabia vRS

There is much argument over what car could truly be considered King of the Hot Hatch genre, but you would have to be extraordinarily one-eyed – or maybe a bit stupid – if you didn’t at least concede that it most likely comes down to a choice between to two originators of the class – […]

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Other Games

Review: L.A.Noire (Xbox 360)

I have to admit that after playing through L.A. Noire, the new game from game publisher Rockstar – those wonderful people who bought you the throughly brilliant Grand Theft Auto series and the utterly awesome Red Dead Redemption – I am a little bit mystified by all the rave reviews it has been gathering. To […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: BMW 535d

Referring to a car as refined, luxurious and poised as the BMW 535d as a muscle car seems more than a little incongruous, given that the phrase generally conjures up images of luridly-coloured American cars with colossal petrol-slurping V8 engines and lots of tyre smoke. In regards to that definition, the soberly-coloured, diesel-sipping turbo 3-litre […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mazda CX-9

To say that buyers don’t want large vehicles anymore, and then point to the declining large car segment as proof, is actually somewhat spurious. While the proof would actually seem to be fairly black and white – large cars are selling in far fewer numbers every year – it’s actually more a matter of packaging. […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: SsangYong Korando

To say that the SsangYong Korando has come a long way from its beginnings as a Jeep made under license by the Geohwa Company in Korea in 1983 is a pretty massive understatement. The second generation was based on a shortened Musso platform and featured styling that was just plain ugly, really and the fact […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Audi A7

Audi seems to have gone a bit Hatch Mental of late as it races to out-do BMW in the competition to create more (and more bizarre) new segments to sell increasingly niche versions of their vehicles in. As well as releasing a relatively straightforward (perhaps a little too straightforward…) new entry into the premium five-door […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Toyota Highlander 2WD

I have a bit of a soft-spot for the Toyota Highlander. I always though it handled quite well for such a comfortable big SUV, the engine had a nice snarl to it and always had a decent amount of grunt where ever you needed it, it was comfortable, well-built and handsome. Oh, and there was […]

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Other Games

REVIEW: Killzone 3 (PS3)

Killzone 2 took a lot of flack because its graphics weren’t so hot (despite what the original trailers suggested…) but was forgiven (a little bit…) because it had a great story and likable characters. Well, Sony and game developer Guerilla obviously decided to fix that particular imbalance with Killzone 3 by making the graphics utterly […]

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