Trapped in a foreign place with eight other strangers, a mysterious numbered bracelet on your wrist and only a vague recollection of how you got there, you’re tasked with solving puzzles and making uneasy alliances to escape.
Horizon Zero Dawn is easily Guerilla Games’ best effort yet and by far one of the best games this generation so far.
Words can’t do proper justice to just how good Forma.8 looks.
Team Ninja’s new PS4 exclusive Nioh garnered a lot of attention after its rereveal for how strikingly similar it looked to From Software’s Dark Souls and its two spiritual cousins, Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne. In fact, many people prior to release were calling it “Samurai Souls” or “Ninja Souls.” I would be lying if I…
This was actually supposed to be a review for Gravity Rush 2… but what are you meant to do if you genuinely can’t stand to play a game?
It was a great year to be a PS4 owner. Besides the litany of third party games, this year also saw the release of Naughty Dog’s first proper PS4 release, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, but it also saw the release of the much-awaited The Last Guardian. That it turned out to be a good game…
The Last Guardian is – and I can’t put too fine a point on this – the most beautiful game I’ve ever played. I’m not just speaking visually; sure, it is certainly a stunning game at times, but emotionally, thematically and in its storytelling, it’s simply beautiful. With minimal dialogue, The Last Guardian conveys its…
Despite mostly positive reviews you would think Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs was a travesty. Amidst cries of “downgraded” graphics, a rote campaign and an entirely too morose lead character, people seem to have forgotten that Watch Dogs was actually a pretty solid game. It controlled well, introduced a fun, easy to use hacking mechanic and a…
When the original Titanfall released in 2014 many gamers lamented the lack of a single player campaign and shied away from the very concept of a multiplayer-only online game. I was not one of these gamers. I truly adored the original game. It had a satisfying gameplay loop facilitated by top-tier controls, impeccable map design…
The first of two planned DLC packs for Dark Souls III has arrived in the form of Ashes of Ariandel and it offers a new world to explore, new enemies to battle, new weapons, armour and spells to find and of course new bosses to endure and triumph over. The DLC also offers a genuine…
“Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” This saying played over and over again in my head during my time with Hanger 13’s Mafia III. I admittedly gave up playing Mafia II because I found the act of repeatedly driving to and from story missions with nothing else to do in the open…
Bioshock is an important game. When it released in 2007 as a timed exclusive on the nearly two year old Xbox 360 (and Windows) it took a lot of people by surprise. Sure, fans of System Shock on PC knew what to expect, but for console only players, it was a surprise hit. Not only…
It’s often said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. While nice in theory, it’s just a pleasant way of saying “rip off” or “copycat.” In video games, truly original ideas are few and far between and a good clone of a successful game can still garner success. In fact, I still maintain…
First person puzzle games have been around for a while now, and only a few have left their mark to become revered classics. From the now primitive, at the time revolutionary Myst, to the brilliantly designed and written Portal and Portal 2, developers have tried their hand at the sub-genre with varying degrees of success….
Sent on a mission to explore a planet supposedly rich in life, an astronaut awakens from a crash landing to find himself alone on a barren planet with no signs of life. And thus begins the adventure that lies ahead of you in Lifeless Planet from indie developer Stage 2 Studios. With an intriguing premise,…
Modern indie games employing old school mechanics and gameplay isn’t a new concept. With the market saturated with games that want to be a throwback to the games of the late 80s and 90s, it takes a lot to stand out. Visually, Daydreamer: Awakened Edition certainly does that. With great creature and character design, distinct…
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens marks the fifth game in Traveler’s Tales’ LEGO Star Wars series and finally brings the series to the modern era of Star Wars films, taking on the narrative of the biggest Star Wars movie ever, The Force Awakens. Injecting new mechanics into the formula, while also attempting to add their LEGO brand…
From the opening seconds of Playdead’s Inside, I knew I was experiencing something special. Instantly striking and sinister, Inside introduces the player to the world they have created where normal gives way to something decidedly not normal with noticeable, but never jarring escalation. I was never at all prepared for where Inside was going to…
Full disclosure: I have no previous experience with Anima: Gate of Memories prior to this game. I didn’t know there was a paper RPG, a Kickstarter, or anything even remotely associated with this. I saw the trailer, liked the look of it, and decided to give it a shot. Apart from some simple, but striking…
It could be argued that the character of Nathan Drake was satisfyingly deconstructed in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and while the story wasn’t the tightest, the themes and character arc was. We learned that Drake wasn’t actually a descendant of Sir Francis Drake, how he met Sully, and seemingly choose his life with Elena over…
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