Review by Nick H. Movie tie-ins always seem to struggle. That is not to say there are not great games based on existing intellectual properties; there have been plenty of them, including some very entertaining Batman and Transformers titles. The problem seems to occur when the game is tied into…
Read MoreReview by Sam M. Gameplay that is fuelled by creativity can often be a doubled edged sword. While creative players may flourish, those who prefer to kick back and follow a prescribed route through the game while mashing some buttons will struggle to find the most out of the experience…
Read MoreReview by Zane M. It is the year 2014. Smallpox has been eradicated. The invention of the internet has enabled us to have access to the sum of human knowledge at the push of a button. Gay marriage has been increasingly more legalised in the Western world and progressives are…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I loved Assassin’s Creed 3. I realise that’s a controversial statement to make for the fans of the earlier AC games, especially considering that I wasn’t a fan of the series until AC3 (at all), but the trip through early-era America was for me a revelation.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s time for one of those dirty little admissions that no game critic should be making; I haven’t played either of Rocksteady’s Batman games. I know them by reputation to be some of the finest examples of games this generation, however, and that’s especially impressive considering…
Read MoreIn my humble opinion it was bad timing to release Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation at the same time as the PS3/ Xbox 360/ PC game. I get that the two games link together to help further Ubisoft’s virtual world, but the console titles did such a blockbuster job and set…
Read MoreI was not a fan of the previous Assassin’s Creed game at all. That game was, like a Michael Bay film, loud, brash and thoroughly devoid of anything interesting behind its bombastic action. So I was genuinely surprised to find that Assassin’s Creed III is more like a Joss Whedon…
Read MoreThe latest in a series of very Japanese games, Way of the Samurai 4 is an open world game with some very strange things happening within its city walls. It’s not necessarily a game that you would pick over an Assassin’s Creed or Grand Theft Auto game, but it’s fun…
Read MoreI’m still not sure Gravity Rush knows what it wanted to be when in development, the obvious gameplay gimmick aside. The open world, cute cel-shaded graphics, platformer- inspired puzzle sequences, RPG-style music and combat that might have been borrowed from an early Kingdom Hearts game never quite mesh together comfortably.…
Read MoreSome awesome news on the Mount & Blade front: a big DLC expansion is taking the game and plonking it in the Napoleonic era. That means artillery and some of the most famous battles in history are about to come to the superb open-world style of gameplay that we loved…
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