It feels like it’s been an age (ho!) but Broken Age isn’t broken (ha!) into two pieces anymore and yes, sorry, I’ll stop doing that now. There are about 19 ways I could review this, so here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to review the whole thing, but with an emphasis on the […]
Making an adventure game can be a perilous thing, as Perils of Man shows.
Despite all the hiding inside crowds and skulking about, Assassin’s Creed has only ever been tangentially about stealth. Whistling at people from inside a bush and then stabbing them is more horticulturally-assisted murder than unseen agent. Pure stealth games allow players to pass by completely unseen, and in Assassin’s Creed there’s almost always a trail […]
Be glad: the first draft of this review was a script for a short play in which I met Mortal Kombat X, a wonderful, lovely, witty person – more erudite than initial impressions might lead you to suspect – with a nasty habit of cracking me in the bollocks. Then I decided that if I […]
Game production cycles can stop and restart on the strangest whims. When 3D came along as a viable presentation option, it was assumed in some quarters to supercede 2D entirely. Distributors would tell Obsidian that no-one was buying the 2D(ish), Infinity Engine style games anymore. And to prove that point they stopped commissioning them. “It […]
An entry-level HOTAS joystick from the legendary folks at Thrustmaster that makes you forget it's entry-level in the first place.
Depending on the number of spin-off titles and mobile distractions you include in the count, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue is somewhere between the seventh and twenty-fifth Assassin’s Creed game. Those are numbers which keep the champagne glasses clinking in the boardroom, but they reflect a series struggling to re-invent itself, and one which is finding it […]
There are probably lots of games from the 90s that deserve a “remaster,” to use the term of choice these days. On the other hand, there are games which should probably just be left alone and nostalgically remembered for how good they were. Happily, Homeworld is very much in the genuine classic category. When Gearbox picked up […]
As even the most casual student of mythology knows, the Ancient Greek gods could be a spiteful, arrogant, and jealous bunch. Like spoiled superheroes, they often used their powers to fuck with humanity (both figuratively and literally) and then had the chutzpah to expect continual praise for providing basic services like “making sure the oceans […]
Peter (Parrish): By now, I’m sure you’ve read the IncGamers port verdict for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Tim and I both came away impressed by the optimisation, decent mouse and keyboard controls and range of graphics options, but didn’t get too deep into the mechanics or design of the game. That’s what this joint […]
