EA’s tentpole sports franchise gets it’s 2021 edition. It’s time to take to the pitch for FIFA 21.Say what you will about FIFA, you can’t fault EA Sports for providing an all-encompassing simulation of the world’s favourite game. FIFA 21 is packed with over thirty leagues and all the top football tournaments, including the UEFA … Continue Reading ››
Milestone, free of the licencing restraints of their excellent MotoGP franchise give us more bikes to play with in Ride 4.Motorcycle racing games are not for the faint-hearted. At best they are a punishing war of attrition with a fiendish learning curve that opens up into a rewarding experience, at worst they are a cartoonishly … Continue Reading ››
Is the force with EA Games' Star Wars Squadrons? We find out.A long time ago, in a country far, far away (well, 1978, in the UK), your author, only seven years old, first pondered on what it would be like to sit in the cockpit of an X-Wing Fighter.
At a time when racing games are getting closer and closer to photoreal, it is getting harder and harder to tell them apart.Art of Rally bucks this trend with glorious stylised graphics and some great rally driving.At first glance, Art of Rally very much reminds me of early 90s arcade racers, as pixels started … Continue Reading ››
Football, as they say, is a funny old game. Konami’s naming convention for its eFootball PES 2021 Season Update is, to be frank, rather bizarre.Whilst I’ve been away playing EA Sports’ FIFA with all it’s polish, licences players, teams, competitions and razzamatazz, Pro Evolution Soccer has evolved. Konami, it seems, unlike EA Games, have moved … Continue Reading ››
Those Who Remain is a first-person horror game with a premise that’ll be very familiar to fans of the Alan Wake games.Players take on the role of Edward, a man with his own demons. The game starts as Edward searches the Golden Oak Hotel in an attempt to end an illicit affair and get his … Continue Reading ››
American Football fans get their annual fix of gridiron action with this year’s Madden NFL 21 from EA Sports.I’ve been playing Madden for years. In the beginning, as a pasty-faced pom, American Football was alien to me. If anything, playing the game took me back to high school rugby sessions in the snow as I … Continue Reading ››
NBA 2K21 presents a basketball game with courts packed with fans and even a bustling neighbourhood, all with not a facemask in sight. The developers really know how to rub it in.As twilight falls on this current generation of consoles and the effects … Continue Reading ››
As twilight falls on this current generation of consoles and the effects …