The most recent Action & Adventure Games articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 tactical shooter game

Jonathan Parkyn — 2008-06-09T17:32:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Monday 9 June 2008 at 17:32:00

The team returns for this not-so-sharpshooting sequel

The first Rainbow Six game was released for PCs back in 1998 and soon found itself ported to all the various consoles of the day....

Review: Lost: The Video Game

Jonathan Parkyn — 2008-04-17T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Fun while it lasts, but not challenging

Television programmes tend not to get the computer game treatment as frequently as feature films do and there’s probably a good reason we never see desktop adaptations of Coronation Street...

Review: Broken Sword: The Angel of Death

Anthony Dhanendran — 2008-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Personal Computer World, Friday 22 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Unwitting hero George Stobbart investigates yet more dark secrets

The hero of the Broken Sword series of games, George Stobbart, first appeared on our screens way back in 1996 as a befuddled tourist thrust into a mystery caper....

Review: Crysis game

Emil Larsen — 2008-01-17T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 January 2008 at 00:00:00

A little overhyped, but some excellent spells of gaming nonetheless

Far Cry appeared out of the blue in 2004 and quickly became an international PC favourite. The same developer, Crytek, has created plenty of hype about its latest outing, though,...

Review: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare game

Will Stapley — 2007-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 11 December 2007 at 00:00:00

Gripping single-player storyline, immersive online play and stunning graphics

Previous entries in the Call of Duty series have all been based around the Second World War. Modern Warfare, as its name suggests, brings the action into present day, leaving...

Review: The Orange Box game

Emil Larsen — 2007-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Thursday 25 October 2007 at 00:00:00

Five excellent games for the price of one

The gaming download shop Steam, where you can purchase and download the five-game compilation known as The Orange Box, has been growing at a vast rate recently with a library...

Review: Stranglehold game

Will Stapley — 2007-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Monday 22 October 2007 at 00:00:00

John Woo’s Inspector Tequila runs amok in downtown Hong Kong

Based on Hard Boiled, a 1992 John Woo film, Stranglehold is a full-on action adventure. You take control of unconventional, sharp-shooting Inspector ‘Tequila’ Yuen - a 3D version of actor...

Review: Bioshock game

Emil Larsen — 2007-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Monday 24 September 2007 at 00:00:00

A creative and gripping plot makes this a top contender for game of the year

Playing Bioshock is a bit like playing a movie. You are a passenger on board an aircraft in 1960 that crashes into the sea....

Review: Dragon's Lair (HD-DVD) game

Will Stapley — 2007-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 29 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Dirk the Daring gets the HD treatment

First released on Laserdisc back in 1983, Dragon’s Lair stood head and shoulders above the competition in terms of graphics....

Review: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 game

Emil Larsen — 2007-08-20T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Monday 20 August 2007 at 00:00:00

The Ghosts drop into Mexico to kill rebels in a pro-American drama

Tactical shooters are an odd genre of computer game. The offspring of first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfight 2 (abbreviated GRAW2), is a child that certainly...

Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game

Will Stapley — 2007-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Friday 10 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Occasionally enjoyable, but something only fans of the film will truly enjoy

Following the book and film of the same name, the latest instalment in the Potter series sees Harry recruiting and tutoring Dumbledore's Army - a group of students who hope...

Review: Transformers: The Game

Emil Larsen — 2007-08-09T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Thursday 9 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Another movie spin-off, with so much wasted potential

The tradition of movies spurring dodgy video game spin-offs is almost as old as the video gaming industry itself. ET the Extra-Terrestrial video game only sold 1.5 million copies of...

Review: Penumbra Overture Ep1 game

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 17 July 2007 at 00:00:00

Something slightly different this way comes

In a market flooded with formulaic film tie-ins and samey sequels, innovation is something that the video game world frequently lacks....

Review: Halo 2 game

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Friday 29 June 2007 at 00:00:00

The Master Chief makes it to the desktop at last, but was it worth the wait?

It’s quite a strange state of affairs when one of the most highly anticipated PC games of 2007 is a port of a three-year-old console title....

Review: Tomb Raider Anniversary game

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-06-21T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Thursday 21 June 2007 at 00:00:00

Eidos raids its own archives for Lara’s latest outing

Last year Eidos managed to exhume Lara Croft and breathe new life into the character with the extremely playable and commercially successful Tomb Raider Legends game....