Gore, heavy metal, guns and more gore! That pretty much sums up Killing Floor 2; the highly anticipated sequel to the original gore-fest. The game is currently in ÔÇÿEarly AccessÔÇÖ on Steam, with the full release coming later in the year for Windows, Linux and PlayStation 4. Consequently not all features are showcased in its current form, not that it makes playing it now any … Continue reading Review: Killing Floor 2
Her Story Platform: PC (Also onMac/iOS) You will like this if you enjoyed: The Ace Attorney series, Papers Please Her Story is quite unlike any other game I have ever played. ItÔÇÖs nothing fancy really, but if you like storytelling in games, this will probably be right up your street as itÔÇÖs mostly just piecing together a story. ItÔÇÖs a text adventure game, with lots … Continue reading Her Story: Review
Finally … someone gets it right The city-builder genre in video games, while relatively niche, has been one of the most competitive and controversial areas in the industry. There have been games released worthy of being deemed classics while others have tried to do something unique but ultimately have fallen flat on their faces. Not since the timeless Sim City 4 could we say that … Continue reading Cities Skylines: Review
Antiquity has never felt so alive Crusader Kings┬áII┬árealised in 2012 is a strategy RPG game developed by Paradox studios. The game allows you to take the role of a ruler of any region within Europe, parts of Africa and Western Asia along with any other regions that you unlock through the use of DLC or mods at various points in time. With the time period … Continue reading Crusader Kings II Review
A Small Review for a Small Game Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation game that allows you to play as a video game developer. Starting out in your garage with only a few thousand dollars you must grow your company and your game portfolio to try and expand your company and become the number one game developer in the world. Beginning in the 1980s … Continue reading Game Dev Tycoon Review
“You’ve met with a terrible fate haven’t you?” I have, and it’s never been better… Round and round, the whirligig of time brings us back to the year 2000. People unboxed their new copies of The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask, expecting an enjoyable yet similar follow up to Ocarina of Time.┬á No one could have expected the strange new journey that lay within the … Continue reading Majora’s Mask 3D: Review
Reviewed on PC Instead of developing on existing models the guys at Ubisoft Montreal have gone for a whole lotta new, which we certainly like. They improved their Anvil engine into the ÔÇ£AnvilNextÔÇØ so it would be able to render ÔÇ£dynamic mass crowdsÔÇØ which it does quite breathtakingly. Hiding in plain sight becomes a far more useful tool as you simply manoeuvre your way through … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Morality systems has become the trend in many modern games Does a time ever come where a man decides to dedicate himself to the best parts or worst parts of himself? He might walk in on his child eating breakfast and wonder ‘Should I offer my precious boy seconds? Fry him the last of my bacon, scramble the last of my eggs and squeeze lemons … Continue reading Quarrels with Morals
The best from a year ago returns: Reviewed on Xbox One You may wonder why a game which already enjoyed a very successful release a year ago would warrant a full review again now that it is out on the new systems. The answer is very simple. It is just awesome! Many games that have been ported onto the next-gen systems such as FIFA 14, … Continue reading Grand Theft Auto V: Next-Gen
Alien Isolation ┬áReviewed on Xbox 360 Now that we have got the compulsory “In space no one” joke out of the way, let us launch into the review that will explain why Alien: Isolation is not only the finest game the franchise has produced, but one of the finest horror games ever released. Historically the Alien franchise has spawned games less reputable than the dreaded … Continue reading In Space, No One Can Hear You Weep With Joy
Forza Horizon 2: Reviewed on Xbox One What do you get when to take the most comprehensive racing simulator and combine it with the best of Test Drive Unlimited and Need for Speed? Forza Horizon 2. Two years after the original was released, Turn 10 Studios has once again departed from the track and teamed up with developer Playground Games. Horizon 2 is the first … Continue reading Welcome Back to Horizon
What has happened? Reviewed on Xbox One Another year, a new season can mean only one thing. Its FIFA time. EA SportsÔÇÖ long-standing football simulator returns and yet again is one the biggest releases of the year. This was supposed to be the first real glimpse of next-gen football gaming. Unfortunately all that has happened is a rather large regression in quality. Quite frankly this … Continue reading FIFA 15 Review
There is value in going back Gaming has always possessed a rather centralized role within the day-to-day living in some shape or form to millions, but in our contemporary society, this seems to carry much more weight than ever before. The last decade alone has seen rise to some major games and franchises that have undoubtedly cemented their status within popular culture. Games such as … Continue reading What has become of Gaming?
Football from across the pond returns:┬áReviewed on Xbox One It is probably fair to say that EA Sports had a rough year in terms of releases in 2013. Madden NFL 25 ÔÇô so named to celebrate 25 years of the series ÔÇô was a target for much criticism from amongst the sports simulation world. Only the disastrous NBA Live 14 was panned even more. The … Continue reading Madden NFL 15 Review
Ubisoft Stumbles ÔǪ again.┬áReviewed on: Xbox One Watch_Dogs has without doubt been one of the most anticipated games this year. Stuck in development hell, the game was pushed back several times only to be finally released a full six months after the latest generation of consoles. For this you might expect something great, and while Watch_Dogs does manage to pull off a few good tricks … Continue reading Watch Dogs review
Answering our questions all the way from sunny Mexico (not┬ápictured), we speak to the prolific writer behind MirrorÔÇÖs Edge,Tomb Raider and Heavenly Sword. (Words: Michael O’Connell-Davidson, Research: Michael O’Connell-Davidson & Rhian Carruthers) ÔÇ£You do know IÔÇÖm on Holiday, right? ;)ÔÇØ Rhianna Pratchett┬áhas sent us her responses while holidaying Mexico, after e-mailing┬áthem to her far later than weÔÇÖd initially intended. The excited feeling┬áI get knowing that … Continue reading Interview: Rhianna Pratchett
When a franchise that is beloved by its fandom is rebooted, it is always going to be a divisive game. So in this instance an attempt has to be made to separate the game from its predecessors and judge it on its own merits. Last month after several years of development, anticipation and internet arguments, Eidos Montreal released the simply-titled Thief. First off, the game … Continue reading Review: Thief
The Killzone franchise is seemingly to Sony what the Halo franchise is to Microsoft. Both are first-person shooters set in the future, with the first three main entries being centred on an intergalactic/interplanetary war and now they can add ÔÇÿfourth entry being a sequel-reboot’ to the list of similarities. Case in point, Killzone Shadow Fall, the fourth instalment in the Killzone franchise and PlayStation 4 … Continue reading Review: Killzone: Shadow Fall
Now the next generation is well and truly here Rhys Thomas Elliott looks back at how gaming has changed, for better or worse. So the Xbox 360/PS3 generation is technically over. It was a generation that brought a lot to the gaming industry, both good and bad; here are a few of my picks for the best and worst things the 360/PS3 generation brought us. … Continue reading Gaming Has Changed
The Xbox One was marketed by Microsoft as being more than simply a gaming console with more emphasis being placed on it being an entertainment device. Now while this might have swayed some people in direction of its competitor the PS4; it is fair to say that Microsoft has delivered the next-gen experience with the entertainment features that it focused so much on. The first … Continue reading Review: Xbox One
