BritXbox: "In what could be called a spiritual successor to the series 'Driver,' Wheelman is 80% driving and 30% on foot action. Within the brightly coloured (non coffee filtered) city of Barcelona you are free to go wherever you please but this game is not a life simulator in some respect. There are no clubs, clothing stores, bowling or annoying friends to call you asking you out on a play date. The focus here is cars, guns and crazy stunts. There are fourteen different cars to use, from Big Rig trucks to motor-cycles in which are balanced in a rock-paper-scissors manner. You may wish to use a bike for speed to whiz past the gangsters who want you dead, but you're vulnerable to being shot and knocked off the bike. You may wish to jump in the trucks and go slowly but destroy everything in path. You might decide to go down the narrow alleyways to give chase, or jump over the round-about to bring the element of surprise. You have the freedom to make your own Hollywood movie chase scene, and it works pretty well."
MenStuff: "OK, it’s hard to actually recommend many celebrity-endorsed games. They don’t exactly live up to the triple-A standard as some of the big blockbuster movies the actors star in, but there are a few that made for a fun adventure and deserve a shout-out."
OXM UK writes: "Madagascar Kartz. Up. Cars. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs.
There are plenty of kids games on Xbox 360 where the challenge barely bothers to raise itself beyond pressing A to skip the tutorial text, as you dilly-dally through the game while achievements pop all around you."
Gamereactor sat down with Tigon Studios' head of game production Ian Stevens to talk about Riddick, the "burden" of Vin Diesel's image, and game development in general.
