If you played Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig then chances are you’ll be in agreement that it was hard to fault. SteamWorld Heist follows suit – it’s one of those rare games that’s hard to criticise without resorting to nitpicking. The amazing thing is, SteamWorld Heist isn’t a simple case of more of the same …
Upon initial inspection this top-down RPG is little more than Diablo III in legendary monster hunter’s clothing. From the art direction to the menu layouts, developer Neocore has copied Blizzard’s multi-million seller in a manner that’s beyond brazen. Spend a few hours in Van Helsing’s boots though and it soon transpires that it does bare …
When rummaging around charity shops there’s a game we see surprisingly often. Not FIFA 08 or any other sports sim you’d care to mention, although they are understandably common, but rather EA’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers tie-in from 2002. As 32-bit era tie-ins went, The Two Towers – and the equally common …
Thanks to a sizeable marketing budget – not to mention the runaway, and surprise, success of Fallout Shelter – it’s highly likely that Fallout 4 will attract many franchise newcomers. Fallout greenhorns are arguably going to get the most out of this long awaited adventure as there’s an unshakeable sense of overfamiliarity. That said, Fallout …
Turning a kid’s cartoon license – even one as ideally suited as Adventure Time – into a point ‘n’ click adventure strikes us as risky business. From LucasArt’s much loved classics to Telltale’s early efforts, it’s a genre renowned for having a frustrating streak due to the linear nature. Overlook an item of importance or …
If SkyScrappers was a retro game it would be a SEGA Saturn oddity. The kind that was briefly mentioned in easily excitable ‘90s gaming magazines, and then never heard of again until eBay sparked an import gaming resurgence. Indeed, it wasn’t until 1999/2000 that it became apparent that the Saturn had far more hidden gems …
A Telltale series involving the time-travelling antics of the ever likeable Marty McFly is an enticing proposition, many would admit. Before donning Marty’s curiously tasteful orange body warmer though it’s worth bearing in mind that this series harks back to 2010 – a time when Telltale was still perfecting their storytelling craft. See also: their …
Ignoring the fact that Platinum Games’ staff probably resorted to sleeping in the office and putting in some serious overtime, Transformers: Devastation is proof of what a studio can achieve while on a tight schedule and what was likely to be a small budget too. We’d hazard a guess that it was more than the …
Prior to its late 2012 release, rumours circulated that Dishonored could be beaten within five hours. This prompted an unwavering waft of negativity, with some gamers even going as far as cancelling their pre-orders. While that rumour wasn’t exactly untrue – it can be beaten in that timeframe if you zealously overuse the teleport ability, …
On initial inspection Flame Over appears alarmingly simplistic. As fireman Blaze it’s your job to singlehandedly extinguish a raging inferno inside a London office block, occasionally stopping to escort citizens to safety. A tight time-limit is in place and a beady eye also has to be kept on water supplies, refillable at any water source. …
It’s not easy being a fan of match-three puzzlers. If there isn’t some kind of saccharine-sweet license attached, then there’s often some horrid IAP system to contend with. EA’s Bejeweled games are the exception, but even then there’s a stigma to overcome before becoming hooked. Specifically, the fact that bored housewives are Bejeweled’s prime demographic. …
“Watch_Dogs was made by so many people that it feels like it was made by nobody at allâ€. We fail to recall which journalist said that – as does Google, bizarrely – which is a shame as that statement summed up Ubisoft’s cybercrime adventure perfectly. The game’s development was such a large scale effort that …
Despite fast approaching its ten year anniversary, it didn’t take very long for fond memories of Gears of War to come flooding back. We had the achievement for 25 active reloads by the end of the tutorial, managed to find most of the collectable COG tags during our first playthrough, took down General RAMM swiftly …
The hunter becomes the hunted in this 2D pixel-art platformer. Transformed into a deer by the Elder Gods, six relics must be found in order to become human again. Often mistaken for junk, these relics are handed out as rewards for completing the six pleasingly nonsensical quests at hand. If you’re thinking that six is …
The studio behind Blues and Bullets shrewdly picked the perfect time to launch a new episodic adventure. The foregone conclusions of Game of Thrones and Tales from The Borderlands are almost upon us, while the end of Dontnod’s Life is Strange also draws near. Blues and Bullets is packaged in a similar fashion to the …