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A potentially great idea – the zombie western – slips from the saddle in John Geddes’ ambitious but anaemic American Civil War yarn. Avoiding the obvious temptation for a tacky genre mash-up ( The Gore, The Blood And The Uglies this isn’t), Geddes should be commended for trying to fashion …

New original properties: they’re something that gamers lament never seeing often enough. At times, it seems as though the video game industry is snagged in a sequel mill. Yet, every once in a while, a new game promises to break the mold with something new to offer. There’s a flip …

Pre-release expectations are difficult for any game to live up to, let alone overcome. That’s hard enough for a sequel that players have been waiting years for; just imagine how tough it would be if gamers waited decades. Kid Icarus: Uprising is the 3DS revival of a series Nintendo fans …

In its first few hours, Silent Hill: Downpour runs through a checklist of Silent Hill tropes with an almost cynical flair – the combat is clunky and awkward, the puzzles are obtuse and sometimes absurd, and zombie-like monsters shamble out of the fog and/or darkness with irregular frequency. It seems …

Dynasty Warriors is a franchise that’s notorious, even infamous, for the predictable content of each of its titles. No matter what the number is next to the name, you can safely assume you’ll be playing the same basically unaltered package, and by now you probably know if you like that …

As a high-schooler tests his fresh superpowers on an unfortunate arachnid, is Josh Trank’s $15m feature debut issuing a sly challenge to 2012’s squillion-dollar spandex crew? Spidey and co better look sharp if so, because this found-footage flyweight matches advance heat with the clout to satisfy and subvert genre expectation. …

Links to all our Merlin reviews from 2011. Warning: here be spoilers as well as dragons

From When Worlds Collide to Melancholia , rogue planets have given sci-fi plenty of apocalyptic wow. The appearance of a second Earth in the sky prompts a more intimate cataclysm in Mike Cahill and rising-star Brit Marling’s hypnotic chamber drama of grief and guilt. Speculative rather than spectacular, this festival …

Presumably more exciting to make than to watch, this ludicrous feature-length glorification of the French special forces from writer-director Stéphane Rybojad involves an elite unit attempting to rescue a kidnapped female journalist (Diane Kruger) from the clutches of the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands. You can spend the running time …

Sonic Generations on 3DS gets off to a magical start, letting you run through a 3D remake of the original Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1. Soon, you’re doing the same with Act 1 of Casino Night Zone from Sonic 2. Bumper for bumper, it’s exactly the same, only in …