Originally hosted on X To Attack Available on most platforms and can be streamed on Xbox Game Pass I know that it sounds cliched, but it is the truth – there are no games I have seen or played that is exactly like this. If I were to have a crack at explaining it: It’s a Magical Realist Americana novela, masquerading as a point and … Continue reading Kentucky Route Zero
Control, the latest game developed by Remedy studios, has a lot of things to love. Comparing it to its previous games, especially Quantum Break, the Finnish studio have stepped into gear and have produced their most fully realised form of their multi-genre vision. But with this latest “Ultimate” edition of the award winning game for the next-gen consoles, I feel hesitant to recommend this game to most players. Continue reading Control Ultimate Edition (for next gen consoles)
Gone Home adjusts the expectations of what a story-led game can look and play like, and in some ways that can be a blessing and a curse. GH initially leans into genre conventions that throw some gamers off as to what it actually is. Slowly creeping through an empty home with flickering lights and burried tales of familial mis-deeds and pentagrams,it lends itself partially to … Continue reading Gone Home – Quickie Review
A Missed Shot Mass Effect Andromeda isn’t a horrible or a particularly bad game. But it is a letdown. This soft-reboot of the series follows Bioware and EA’s critically acclaimed trilogy, which banked on a plethora of diverse characters, memorable quests and breathtaking worlds inhabiting every nook and cranny. Mass Effect 2 in particular is one of my favourite games. I spent tens of hours … Continue reading Mass Effect: Andromeda Review
Beneath The Cowl By Adam Sturrock Developers: Rocksteady Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC *Even though it can be easy to rip into the PC port of the game, I cannot give a clear judgement of the gameplay as I have never played this version. Therefore, obviously, this critique will be absent from the overall score. Slinking and swooping over and in between buildings, smashing … Continue reading Batman Arkham Knight Review
Big Brother Is Watching By Adam Sturrock Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, PC Watchdog’s Aiden Pierce is not a perfect soul. With a press of an app on his phone, your bank details, browser history, messages and phonecalls are his. A vigilante hacker, Aiden seeks to avenge a family member’s murder by any means necessary. Every shot fired and explosion caused is met without … Continue reading Watchdogs Review
Just to preface this review, as of writing, the online portion of the game is not to a playable standard in which I can realistically account towards the overall rating and thus, this will largely be a first impression of the offline aspects of the full title. One Yard Closer By Adam Sturrock Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, Ps3, PS4, PC and Mobile devices. Every year … Continue reading FIFA 15 Review
Built Block By Block By Adam Sturrock From snow capped mountains, lava filled pits and cascading waterfalls the sheer variety that can be found in Minecraft is astonishing. While its blocky, retro exterior suggests a game of poor or middling quality, Minecraft, an indie sandbox title produced by a small firm in Sweden – now owned by a not so small Microsoft – has inexplicably … Continue reading Minecraft Next Generation Edition Review
Monument Valley (2014) IOS, Google Play and Amazon ( Around £2.00+) With the increasing trend of big budget, processor guzzling games, sometimes what we need is a game that shaves that complexity away. Monument Valley is a lively, crisp adventure-puzzle game that seems too fleeting for the time you spend with it. In Monument Valley you play a silent princess called Ida who has to … Continue reading Monument Valley Review
Plug And Play By Adam Sturrock Indie Game The Movie (2012) Director: James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot Starring: Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes, Phil Fish, Jonathan Blow Length: 103mins Bedroom-dreamers, college-dropouts, keyboard-coders, basement-lurkers. From the cult following of Tetris and DOOM until now, there has been a general cultural disconnect with gaming. Games are violent. Games are nerdy. Games just aren’t intellectually fulfilling – say the critics. … Continue reading Indie Game: The Movie Review
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