Review by Matt S. Setting out to make Dark Zelda: Breath of the Souls, and then throwing a dash of Princess Mononoke in there, is certainly a brave and bold move. Portugese-based developer, Amplify Creations, is probably better known within the industry than it is within the gaming community, as…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yes, I’m reviewing a shooty shooty bang bang. Perhaps an even bigger shock is that it is one that I genuinely enjoyed. Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts is not even the most high profile or critically lauded in its genre this year, but then given that so…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Just yesterday I wrote a review for Black Future ’88, a game that I criticised for being far too beholden to the indie trend of making everything into a “roguelike.” Well, Black Future ’88 looks like a masterpiece of innovation when compared to Labyrinth of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s not always fair when a video game – or any other art work, for that matter – belongs to a genre that has become so saturated that it’s hard to muster up enthusiasm for it. It’s often not the game’s fault, in isolation, and many…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have played a lot of video games over the years. According to Metacritic, in the half decade or so that DDNet has been listed there, we’ve reviewed 2,333 games, of which a big percentage was my doing. Across all of those games I don’t think…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The development story behind Shenmue is a long and convoluted one, and well known enough that I’m not going to repeat it here. What is pertinent is that, many years after SEGA pulled the plug on the series, leaving it on a narrative cliffhanger with Shenmue…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Need for Speed is a franchise which needs little introduction; it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary with 2019’s entry, Need for Speed: Heat, and for its long and illustrious history it’s always been a fixture on the console market. The series has been EA’s eminent basically-one-release-a-year homestay…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I wonder how long it will be before “tycoon games” start to instead be known as “planet games”. That certainly seems to be the goal of Frontier Developments — after a very successful spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon in 2016’s Planet Coaster, the studio has now…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Finally. FINALLY. It only took three years, but 2K Games has finally released Civilization VI onto a console that we all knew was perfectly capable of playing Civilization VI from day one. When the PC version landed back in 2016, 2K sidestepped the question of a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Everyone needs a good fishing game to play, and yes, I’m being entirely serious. Unlike real world fishing, fishing video games are a relaxing and affirming experience – you chill right down, throw the line in, and know that sooner or later you’re going to catch…
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