It’s a sad but true fact about video games today that most games that call themselves “survival horror” are more about the action than anything else. Slowly they are moving away from the disturbing matter and bizarre storylines for more streamlined combat and action set-pieces in a futile hope to match Resident Evil 4. As a matter of fact, in most of these games you can take the Rambo approach, charging at the enemies with the biggest gun and demolishing those who dare impede your progress.

With the Xbox 360 version just under a week away, the first reviews of the game have started to trickle out.
First up is AU.360.IGN with a score of 8.6
It’s clear Epic had two objectives with Unreal Tournament III on 360. Firstly, they wanted to make more cash than a mint does in a month, and secondly, they were out to streamline the UT formula into the premiere online twitch shooter for both seasoned vets and punters alike.

Katie Hoff had one last race tonight at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha and finished it in record fashion. She rallied past Natalie Coughlin to win the 200-meter individual medley final in two minutes, 9.71 seconds, breaking the American record of 2:09.77 set by Coughlin less than a month ago.

At first glance, Mike Mignola’s popular creation Hellboy seems perfectly suited for a video game. All of the elements are there for sure. You’ve got hero with a demonic heritage using his special abilities to defend the innocent from supernatural forces of evil. You’ve got a support cast that includes a pyrokinetic hottie (pun intended) and an amphibious merman, as well as villains that include a mad Nazi scientist, crazed cyborg apes, and more demonic imps than you can wave a big stone fist at. Add to that a built-in audience of rabid fans from both the hit comic series and the Guillermo Del Toro movies, and everything just seems to fall into place naturally for this game. Unfortunately, instead of falling into place, it all just falls apart.