An intoxicating thrill ride at odds with itself You know how you sometimes get politely yelled at for years to check out a game/book/film/whatever and just never do? That was me with Ace Combat; and so I came at this
This is Remedy firing on all possible cylinders There are certain expectations placed on a modern Remedy game, and yet paradoxically I go into each one not knowing what to expect, and rarely getting what I thought I might. This
A fun but finite charm Hot Wheels Unleashed but make it open world by way of Burnout Paradise or Forza Horizon – surely that reads unanimously as a winning formula. It’s a logical next step from the pair of Hot
“For those born as samurai, there is no path but that of a sword. A steep path, crowded with warriors who think they stand at its peak, peerless. The only way forward… is through them.” I don’t think there’s a
The Alien franchise is, to me, unique in the media industry because it features both psychological thrillers, and action adventures in the same story. It’s old hat, I know – Ridley Scott’s Alien vs James Cameron’s Aliens taking the same
There is no Spider-Man without web-swinging. It’s a fact that no doubt stood as a guiding principle and non-negotiable when Insomniac Games begun work on its Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise, and the payoff is some of the most exhilarating and entertaining
30 days. That’s how long The Blood of Dawnwalker gives you to save Coen’s family from the dungeons of Vale Sangora’s vampiric overlord, Brencis. And my rescue mission had an absolutely terrible start. In just the prologue, forgetting to read
A Plague Tale: Innocence and its sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, put the name of Asobo Studio is many more mouths and minds than had been before. These were wonderfully-told stories about family, sacrifice and free will in the form
