Batman: Arkham Asylum
Platform: PS3/360/PC
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Players: 1
Release: Out Now
It can be hard to make a great comic book game, history proves that. The Spider-man games managed to capture the feel of web-slinging around New York, but other elements weren’t as polished, and Superman’s history with the medium has been pretty rocky. Forget all that though, because here comes everybody’s favourite caped crusader with his latest title. Last year Batman rocked the cinema with The Dark Knight, can he do the same to the video game world?
You get a …

Game: Dead Space: Extraction
Platform: Wii
Publisher: EA
Developer: Vicarious Visions
Players: 2
Release: Out Now
This frantic, fast-paced prequel to last year’s Dead Space has traded in the original’s third-person view for a first-person on-rails shooter similar to House of the Dead and Time Crisis. Set in the distant future on a barren planet, a human colony prepares to “crack” the land for vital resources when a strange artefact is discovered. As a team of engineers attempts to move this object, most of the colony suddenly turns insane, eventually into vicious monsters called Necromorphs that …

Game: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Platform: PS3
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Naughty Dog
Players: 1
Release: Out Now
It might be just after you take down a helicopter, or after scrambling up a train that’s literally dangling from the edge of a cliff that you realise Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is something truly special. Nathan Drake returns in this stunning sequel to 2007’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Fans of the original game will remember it for many reasons; it played just like watching an Indiana Jones film, with thrilling 3rd person gunfights separated by platforming that …