4th April Gothic Universe
Gothic Universe combines the first three Gothic games into one convenient package for a slightly higher than budget price.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.7
11th March Final Fantasy II: Anniversary Edition
Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition can only really be recommended to serious collectors or obsessive fans...
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.7
11th March Final Fantasy: Anniversary Edition
Realistically, Final Fantasy: Anniversary Edition can only really be recommended for serious collectors and obsessive fans...
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.3
3rd March Dragoneer's Aria
Dragoneer's Aria is a Nippon-produced RPG for the PSP.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.3
21st February Lost Odyssey
Weighing in at four discs and a relatively hefty 40-50 hours, Lost Odyssey is for the pure Japanese RPG fan.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.5
21st February Shin Megami Tensai: Persona 3
Persona 3’s story is much more interesting than the standard RPG fare, the visual designs are great, the soundtrack is wonderful, and the gameplay is extremely deep.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 8.0
20th February Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess
Wings of the Goddess is the fourth expansion pack to Square-Enix's widely overlooked Xbox 360 port of the PS2 and PC MMO franchise.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.7
15th February Requital
Requital claims to be a free form RPG, but reduced to its simplest form Requital is mostly a simulation of playing fetch.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.2
8th February Pirates of the Burning Sea
We had a chance to play this MMORPG with a roughly 6 year development time. Does an unusually large amount of time invested to create a game equal more fun?
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.8
28th January Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
CoD offers up a total choice of six playable characters, fitting very much to the fantasy archetypes previously seen in a million and one other games/movies/books.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.0
21st December 2007 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
It misses a number of chances to put itself out there as a really successful multiplayer game able to capture the ideals of the Wii in the same way Wii Sports did.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.2
14th December 2007 Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings takes place after the ending of the hit success Final Fantasy XII on the Playstation 2.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 8.7
5th December 2007 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Since the birth of air guitar players, people have dreamed of playing the guitar and doing amazing things on it without the lifetime of practice.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 8.6
30th November 2007 Mass Effect
The most prominent element to Mass Effect is certainly the gorgeous complimentary pairing of the character graphics and terrific voice-over work.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 9.0
28th November 2007 Viva Pinata: Party Animals
Viva Pinata: Party Animals struggles to recapture the innovation of its progenitor, nor provide the slapstick escapism of good humoured mini-games.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 4.7
23rd November 2007 Escape from Paradise City
Escape from Paradise City attempts to combine strategy games and RPGs, but does so in a most unspectacular manner.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.2
19th November 2007 Tabula Rasa
The gameplay works wonderfully - it's action-packed and fast-paced, like a shooter, and the co-operative nature of the game is a joy.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 9.0
12th November 2007 Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
This is a must have for anyone looking for a game from the golden days, but by no means is a casual game.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 8.0
9th November 2007 Rogue Galaxy
The superb cell-shaded graphics enchant when coupled with the imaginative character design, enthralling music, and tried-and-tested RPG gameplay is almost impossible to get wrong.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 8.7
1st November 2007 Conan
Conan PS3 is the most blatant example of laziness in this regard that I've come across in a while.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.3
30th October 2007 The Witcher
The Witcher has employed the dark imagination of a fantasy writer to carve some genuine depth of plot and character from the shapeless, malleable clay of the single person RPG.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.7
3rd October 2007 Warriors Orochi
The Warriors' games essentially task the player with controlling one or more of the legendary and mythical heroes from either Chinese or Japanese history.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.0
26th September 2007 Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu (aka DBZ: Goku Densetsu)
Goku Densetsu brings up that nagging feeling that this is a pastime that simply deserves to be played in the flesh rather than the screen.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.3
25th September 2007 Two Worlds
Two Worlds succeeds at what it sets out to provide - a poor man's Oblivion and a simple, unrestrictive introduction to role playing games.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.2
19th September 2007 Undercover: Operation Wintersun
You're back in 1943 and The British Intelligence Community uncovers some secret plans alluding to some research by the Nazi's into nuclear weapons is at an advanced stage.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.7
18th September 2007 Dungeons & Dragons Tactics
Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics, is a solid tactical RPG, and has a nice length to it, but the shortcomings of the game make it very tiresome to play.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.8
13th September 2007 Lair
The story revolves around two cultures, the Asylian and the Mokai, who once were one people, The Ancients.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.0
7th September 2007 Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle
A fantasy mmo that's made ever more surreal by its art style and hidden beneath that is a grinding mega-fest.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.8
31st August 2007 Loki
Cyanide Studio has accomplished a lot with Loki; crafting the kind of distorted, action packed hack'n'slash history lesson gamers have been craving ever since God of War.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.3
27th August 2007 Blue Dragon
Right from the start, Blue Dragon shines with an understated and yet vibrant aesthetic quality, quite unlike most of the staple RPG design elements we've come to expect over the years.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.8
9th August 2007 Shadow Hearts: From the New World
The story starts in New York City with the 16 year old Johnny Garland. His parents and sister were tragically killed which left him to head up the family business.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.7
6th August 2007 Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road
Shin Budokai 2 ('Another Road' as it's titled overseas) takes place in an alternative timeline to the main series, and asks the player to take control of a character named 'Trunks'.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.3
31st July 2007 Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm
Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm is ingenuously open from the start; it doesn't attempt to dazzle you with its visuals, nor does it attempt to break away from traditional RPG's in terms of gameplay.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.0
28th June 2007 The Guild 2 - Pirates of The European Seas
Those land lubber dynasties have decided to way anchor and set their sights on a new enterprise, plenty of new swag and nobility up for greedy grabs.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.3
25th June 2007 King of Fighters XI
If you have played other King of Fighters games and are curious to see how the series has developed this is a great game for you.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.7
15th June 2007 Safecracker
If you enjoy your puzzle games and like to work your brain on challenges ranging from simple to break-the-desk frustrating, then Safecracker might just be for you.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 5.8
30th May 2007 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
The newest installment from Atlus in the Shin Megami Tensei has just chocked up, full as ever of demon love.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.0
24th May 2007 Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy achieves what all great role playing games aspire to do, namely re-creating those spine tingling role-play experiences first popularised in the Lord of the Rings novels.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 7.5
21st May 2007 Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
The Untold Legends series has a fairly middling reputation on the PSP, and that mediocrity is translated directly to this release.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 6.0
14th May 2007 The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
It's a game worthy of Mordor, so get a copy as soon as you can; here's one not to miss for any Tolkien fan.
Genre: RPG | Our score: 9.0
