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Max Payne 3 should have been one of the best games available on Mac OS X, but a terrible port make it seem like a cash-grab and something to avoid.

Packed full of ideas, a great cast and a head-banging soundtrack, Brütal Legend seems simply too awesome to go wrong. But like a one-man-band at a Heavy Metal concert, the end result is a confusing mess of different noises, none of which are what you paid for.

Original released for consoles in 2009, Brutal Legend (which is how I’ll spell it from now on, for fear of…

Hotline Miami is more crazed animal than game. It’s got the lean, efficient musculature of a predator in the wild, with LSD coursing through its veins and dark purposes in its heart. It wants only for you to use it to kill, beat to death, kill and kill some more. Sure there’s a storyline, and some will argue that the extreme violence lurking under the retro-styled shell is merely a metaphor. But those people are wrong. This game lusts for virtual blood.

The story sees you as a contract killer-for-hire in 1980s Miami. From the offset, everything seems a little weird, with…

The (by my count at least) 11th Lego game in the series (and the tenth ported by Feral Interactive) is an odd thing. It blends together platforming, quick-time events and fighting with RPG-style quests, crafting, and smashing up blocks of Lego for your own amusement (and points). Somehow, this bizarre concoction works.

The game has one of the worst opening segments I’ve ever had the misfortune to play. Right off the bat,…

A clumsy mishmash of opposing gameplay elements make Drox Operative an exceptionally deep and rewarding, but largely unplayable game.

Drox Operative is about piloting a ship around a galaxy, with the aim of conquering it indirectly: through forging alliances…

As a sequel to an astonishingly good game, Arkham City manages to do the impossible, delivering a game that improves on every aspect of the original whilst keeping a firm grip on what made it so good in the first place.