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In life, there are many certainties. Night follows day. Litigation follows building work. And once a year, EA Sports releases a new batch of sports titles which are bought in vast quantites by the public. And yet every year, we find ourselves asking the same questions. Have there been enough improvements to justify another £30-£40 being spent? Have they sold out the game we love for arcade simplicity? And why DO they sell so many? Thus we come to the latest in EA's attempts to bring golf to the videogame market. They've been doing it for a while, but the series arguably took off when they secured the lucrative licence (to print money?) of Tiger Woods, easily the most recognizable golfer in the world. He's probably the one golfer that most non-golfers would be able to identify, and for that reason, it's a marketing man's dream. So what's the game like? It starts out promisingly enough, with Tiger telling us that "It's in the game" while showing off by skimming a ball along...

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The New member of the silent hill family has unleashed. Some parts of this game may be considered violent or cruel, we're warned up-front. I guess the old, "This game contains violent and disturbing imagery" disclaimer wasn't penetrating the denser patches of end-user. For those who have played 1 or 2 in the series may think the Silent Hill quality bubble simply has to bust one of these days - thankfully, we're not there yet. Silent Hill 3 is finally here... and while it's not any kind of gameplay revolution, it's the best, most polished and creepiest of the series. It also gives us an entirely new protagonist: Heather, a teenage girl. She's not a cop or a special agent, not some oversexed cartoon, and certainly not much of a badass. Truth is, she looks pretty awkward and uncomfortable, especially the first time she holds a gun. The fact that a computer-generated character can actually look "awkward and uncomfortable" at all is some kind of tribute to the game's...

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Format - PC Release Date: Q3, 2003 Publisher: Strategy First Website: www.etherlords.com In Etherlords II, you're a duellist on a quest in a fantasy realm - the usual Role Playing Game (RPG) idea. To begin with, you have a selection of 16 spells. The spells you have are dependent on the path you choose in the single-player mission, namely Life and forests, or mountains and destruction. For this first peek into the Etherworld I chose to play Life and the initial spells were tiny creatures and plants, like ticks and fungus. These were augmented with a few spells to make things more powerful for eg. a spell to add to my defences and spells to prevent other, less powerful creatures from attacking me.