Dishonored 2 (Bethesda Softworks, Multiformat)
Freedom. Many videogames claim to offer it yet few actually deliver it. Sure, designers have figured out ingenious ways of presenting the illusion of freedom, as the folk behind this year’s debacle of...
View ArticleDead Rising 4 (Capcom, PC / Xbox One)
Nothing says knockabout fun like a zombie apocalypse! As unlikely as it might seem, this wilfully silly premise informs Capcom’s sequel, in which the hapless hero Frank West is once again drawn back to...
View ArticleThe Last Guardian (Sony, PS4)
For many years, the latest release from Team Ico was an industry legend, a Keyser Soze spook story that was told and retold at conventions, games expos and in occasional “Where Are They Now?” articles....
View ArticleHorizon Zero Dawn (Sony, PS4)
Let’s cut to the chase: Horizon Zero Dawn is fantastic. A rewarding, surprising romp set in a vividly realised open world that grows deeper and more engrossing the more hours that you choose to pour...
View ArticleSniper Elite 4 (Rebellion, Multiformat)
Whereas most modern first person shooters are looking to the future for inspiration (notably, the much maligned Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare), this gleefully violent game instead looks to the past –...
View ArticleCuphead (Microsoft, PC / XBO)
To paraphrase Bill Murray’s character in Ghostbusters, here’s something you don’t see everyday: a side-scrolling shoot-‘em-up presented in the lovingly hand-drawn visual style of 1930s Max Fleischer...
View ArticleUncharted: The Lost Legacy (Sony, PS4)
Not many development houses can boast the same consistent track record as the one trail-blazed by Naughty Dog. The Santa Monica company may not have many intellectual properties to their name but when...
View ArticleDishonored: Death of the Outsider (Bethesda, Multiformat)
Nobody should need a second invitation to return to Karnaca, the vividly realised fictional world where much of the action in Dishonored 2 takes place. With its disparate influences of European...
View ArticleThe Evil Within 2 (Bethesda Softworks, Multiformat)
…in which we are once again plunged into the broken mind of Sebastian Castellanos. He may sound like an extra member of The Strokes but he is in fact a self-destructive police detective with,...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft, Multiformat)
Have we been spoilt by videogames? It is a question that often wanders into the mind, particularly when playing franchises like Assassin’s Creed, in which long gone historical eras are casually...
View ArticleOkami (Capcom, Multiformat)
Capcom may continue to mine their back catalogue for titles to re-release, but if that means that a wider audience will get to enjoy this beguiling adventure, it would be churlish to complain too much....
View ArticleWolfenstein II: The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe (Bethesda, Multiformat)
What is it that makes Wolfenstein II so enjoyable to play? Is it the slick as oil mechanics, the relentless gunplay, the responsive controls, the ludicrously over-the-top action sequences, the treasure...
View ArticleGod of War (EA, PS4)
Put simply, God Of War is not only one of the best games on the current generation of consoles… it is also one of the best games ever released for any console. Yes, this may sound like embellishment, a...
View ArticleFar Cry 5 (Ubisoft, Multi)
The Far Cry franchise has never been known for its bashfulness but this most recent episode not so much pushes the envelope as takes that envelope and uses next level origami skills to transform it...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Odyssey (Ubisoft, Multiformat)
Just as the creators of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been building for a decade towards the conceptualisation and creation of Avengers: Infinity War, so the designers at Ubisoft have spent the...
View ArticleRed Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar, Multiformat)
After a pack of dynamite fails to ignite, you chase after and then jump onto the top of a speeding locomotive train, hoisting your friend up from the side just before he comes just a hair’s breadth of...
View ArticleFallout 76 (Bethesda, Multiformat)
To quote The Big Lebowski, “sometimes you eat the bar… and sometimes the bar eats you.” It is both fair and heartbreaking to say that Fallout 76 has repeatedly eaten the bar since its initial release,...
View ArticleResident Evil 2 (Capcom, Multiformat)
Some videogames attain immortality status and their greatness can never be questioned by lowly humans. The likes of Jet Set Willy, Oblivion and Super Metroid are spoken of in the same hushed, reverent...
View ArticleTrials Rising (Ubisoft, Multi)
Those readers of a certain age will remember Kick Start, a fun for all the family television programme in which amateur motorcyclists rode their steeds over and around an obstacle course comprising hay...
View ArticleFar Cry New Dawn (Ubisoft, Multiformat)
Seventeen years after the denouement of Far Cry 5, whose narrative culminated with the detonation of an actual nuclear bomb, the fictional location of Hope County, Montana is in a period of what one...
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