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 ››

2K Games and Hanger 13 invite us to return to the city of Lost Heaven and sample Mafia: Definitive Edition.Originally released back in 2002, to critical acclaim, Mafia spawned two sequels, 2010’s Mafia 2 and 2016’s Mafia 3. Both Mafia 2 and Mafia 3 have recently been re-released, with Mafia 2: Definitive Edition getting updated … Continue Reading ››

After a lacklustre 5^th entry, Activision have gone back to basics, reinvigorating the original Tony Hawk Pro Stater 1 and 2 in the hope of capturing past glories. Have they succeeded?I never had a skateboard as a kid. Growing up as the son of a nurse, they were seen as too dangerous. In saying that, … Continue Reading ››

Crystal Dynamic’s Marvel’s Avengers is now out. The Tomb Raider Studio has bought the comic book heroes to live as a third-person brawling looter, similar to Bungie’s Destiny games.I played the Avengers closed beta on PlayStation 4 and the open beta on PC. I … Continue Reading ››