LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review (PS4)
Note: I played this game solo, not local co-op as is usually recommended with Lego games. Back in 2005, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game set the precedent for all future brick based video games. With a low skill ceiling but huge amounts of replayability to unlock all the characters…
Carmageddon: Max Damage Review
There are two different kinds of racing games for players to enjoy in the current age of gaming. There are the simulators that allow you to play with realistic representations of famous cars as you go around professional courses or city streets. The complete opposite to these are the weapon…
The Banner Saga 2 (PS4) Review
Coming along mere months after the release of the first game in the series, The Banner Saga 2 has made its way to the home consoles on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The original Banner Saga was a very story-driven experience, relying on the player to invest themselves in the…
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Review
As the summer drought approaches, it’s usual practice for companies to release a remaster or two to fill the void while they potter away with titles that were announced at E3. Sony have gotten in earlier this year with a remaster, bringing the lauded strategy RPG Valkyria Chronicles to PS4.…
SteelSeries Rival 700 Review
It is fair to say that SteelSeries have upped their game with the their latest gaming mouse. The Rival 700 includes a monochrome OLED screen and tactile feedback into a mouse. From the get go, the Rival 700 continues to bring what gaming professionals expect, such as high dpi and customisable buttons.…
Grand Kingdom Review
Grand Kingdom is the latest title developed by Spike Chunsoft, previous titles have included the Danganronpa series and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Gates of Infinity. It is set on the fictional continent of Resonail, a nation that was once overseen by a regime known as the Uldein Empire. After the organisation…
DOOM Review
It can’t be easy being Id Software. The creators of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Quake are basically responsible for the entire first-person shooter genre as we know it and that’s a hell of a legacy to live up to. The England football team are proof enough that just because you invented…
Epson EH-TW5350 Review
The Epson EH-TW5350 focuses on entertainment and is the top of the range for the EH-TW. Costing £600 it is fairly cheap for a home cinema and it comes with brightness of 2200 lumens, full HD with 3D and a promoted dynamic contrast ratio of 35000:1 and a range of…
VA-11 HALL-A Review
Reviewing narrative heavy games is always difficult; trying to strike the balance between criticising the ‘game’ aspect of a title as well as the narrative and world that is presented to you. As such, visual novels and the like usually stay off my radar as pieces end up sounding like…
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Review
Xbox has Halo. Nintendo has Mario. PlayStation? Uncharted is their baby. Every forum post about newcomers to Sony’s consoles wondering which games they should pick up first always has the same reply: Uncharted. The second instalment, Among Thieves, is usually considered the finest of Nathan Drake’s adventures, but it’s obvious…
Dangerous Golf Review
2016 sees the launch of two wacky golf games in which the goal is more wanton destruction rather than sinking a birdie. The first off the tee is Dangerous Golf, the first game by new indie studio Three Fields Entertainment who take their experience working on the Criterion-era Burnout series…
Overwatch Review
It’s rare to have a new IP, even one supported by a big publisher, be such an overwhelming success in a short period of time. Overwatch has conquered the gaming world over the last week or so, with Twitter feeds being full of Play of the Games, stores actually selling…
SteelSeries Siberia 350 Gaming Headset Review
Affordability and comfort are two words that spring to mind when I think of the SteelSeries Siberia headset range. The previously reviewed Siberia RAW Prism earned its title as a decent affordable headset but did lack a key component in missing volume controls. Coming back a couple years later SteelSeries…
Stikbold! Review
Three years ago, a prototype game known as Stikbold was developed during the Nordic Game Jam. The development team known as Game Swing was praised for their creation, so they decided to develop a full game based on their original idea. Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure originally saw a release on…
Adam’s Venture Origins Review
This review of Adam’s Venture Origins contains minor spoilers for how to complete certain puzzles within the narrative as part of the critical analysis. From 2009 to 2012, a small studio named Vertigo Games released Adam’s Venture, a three part puzzle-adventure game that focused on the story of a spunky…
Dark Souls III Review
Trilogies are always difficult things to get right. You need to balance tying up plot threads, improving on aspects of previous installments while retaining enough to seem familiar. Dark Souls III has quite the act to follow, coming off the back of an incredibly successful deviation from high fantasy in…
The Banner Saga 2 Review
When I approached The Banner Saga 2, I wasn't sure if indie developers Stoic could cause lightning to strike the same place twice. Somehow though, with a few hand-drawn images and clever prose, Stoic have crafted something special. The Banner Saga 2 would be better described as Banner Saga: Season 2.…
Stranger Of Sword City Review
If you ever survived of a plane crash, what would be the first thing that you would do after such as traumatic event? Instead of calling for help, if you’d join with a group of adventurers to defeat groups of legendary monsters, then you will feel right at home with…
Republique Review
Warning: This review may contain spoilers. With over $550,000 pledged on Kickstarter and a solid team comprised of industry veterans that worked on titles such as Metal Gear Solid IV and Halo 4, Republique had a lot of potential. Set in a dystopian city-state inspired by the events of George…
Day Of The Tentacle Remastered Review
This review of Day of the Tentacle Remastered contains minor spoilers for how to complete certain puzzles within the narrative as part of the critical analysis. If there is one thing that the nineties will, or at least should, be remembered for, it is the wealth of great point-and-click adventure…
Enter the Gungeon Review
I’m mowing down hordes of cute, walking bullets with a gun that fires junk mail, while a turtle in a space helmet provides covering fire as I frantically roll from upturned table to stone pillar. I’ve only got a few seconds before the next torrent of bullets destroys my last…