Lollipop Magazine

Dead to Rights – Retribution – Review

May 1, 2010

Down and dirty and proud of it, Dead to Rights: Retribution’s aesthetic is like the trashy, violent glee of the Death Wish movies.

MotoGP 09/10 – Review

April 1, 2010

MotoGP 09/10 gives the player a great sense of speed, and ratcheting things up to the MotoGP speed level will put your heart rate on the brink of a grabber.

Lunar – Silver Star Harmony – Review

April 1, 2010

Resurrecting an 18-year-old Sega CD title with great music, snappy writing, and memorable characters and quests, all wrapped in a sterling updated presentation.

Splinter Cell – Conviction – Review

April 1, 2010

Splinter Cell Conviction is an example of the holy grail of gameplay that developers should be chasing, rather than gimmicky interfaces.

Fragile Dreams – Farewell Ruins of the Moon – Review

April 1, 2010

You wake up to find the world in ruins and its entire population absent. Using the Wii Remote as a flashlight, you explore in your search for answers.

Just Cause – 2 – Review

April 1, 2010

As secret agent Rico Rodriguez, you cruise, jump, fly, careen, zig-zag, grapple, and buzz around a fictional tropical paradise, working as a gun-for-hire.

Dark Void – Review

March 1, 2010

A developer who sets out to redefine the third-person action genre. With a game is as ambitious as Dark Void, it’s easy to forgive its faults.

BioShock 2 – Review

March 1, 2010

The storytelling, while solid, falls well short of the original’s superlative status, but elsewhere, the series has been polished up nicely.

Aliens vs Predator – Review

March 1, 2010

Blasting an Xenomorph with a shotgun is fun. As is tormenting humans from the shadows as an Alien, or ripping out their spines as a Predator.

No More Heroes 2 – Desperate Struggle – Review

March 1, 2010

When Travis Touchdown fires up his katana and screams “Fuck you!” as he carves up opponents, you’re ready for the gaming equivalent of Never Mind The Bollocks.