Review by Matt S. The original Gunman Clive was a perfectly workable old-school platformer. It was ultimately a throwaway game, with very limited replay value beyond perfect runs and speed runs for the diehards, but it was a challenging, clean game that played to its strengths without any pretensions on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Too many modern strategy games are focused on the World Wars or, if we’re lucky, a couple of centuries previous to that, such as the Napoleonic era. Occasionally we get a big leap backwards in time to ancient wars, but that’s becoming a rare event. How…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Heroes of Might & Magic III HD is not a game I believe many people were asking for, yet it is such an amazingly well-balanced tactical experience that it should be appreciated by people who missed their chance in the past. There are newer iterations in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Life Is Strange makes me hate episodic games. When the opening chapter of a game is this utterly engrossing, to complete it after a solid five hours of continuous play, only to be told “well, you get to wait two months to see the story continue,”…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Fire Emblem turning twenty five years old doesn’t have the impact that it should here. Western fans have missed out on at least seven games over the years so the sheer lineage of Intelligent Systems’ console strategy franchise is lost outside Japan until the magical day…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I never owned a Heroes of Might & Magic PC game when I was a child. But I was a massive fan of the franchise from the moment I played it for the first time on the computer of a good friend of mine (the first…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. Double Dragon is one of the most well known arcade beat ’em up titles ever made and the franchise’s enduring popularity has convinced DotEmu to bring them to your modern PCs. The trilogy package consists of a port of Double Dragon 1, 2 and 3, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher franchise has developed, across just two games, a reputation for a sheer dedication to quality. The developer is happy to delay over and over again in order to ship a completed product, and the third game in the series, due for…
Read MoreReview by Jedediah H. Resident Evil, the original PlayStation 1 classic, is responsible for moulding me into the bravest of precociously chiselled boys. A frail representation of awkward 1996 childhood, I had no clue as to what I was screaming myself into when I, with my best friend and his…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A PlayStation Vita re-release of the original Hyperdimension Neptunia made a lot of sense. The original game, released way back in 2010 on the PlayStation 3, was a great concept but a terrible game. And that remake, Re;Birth 1, was a very good game indeed. However,…
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