With Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts CI Games have taken a leaf out of Hitman’s playbook abandoning the open-world of the last game in favour of a series of well-realised environments.As fun as past Sniper:Ghost Warrior games are, finely polished works, they are not. Fortunately, CI have pulled out the stops with Sniper: Ghost Warrior … Continue Reading ››
Frontier Developments continue to prove themselves to be the masters of the real-time park management genre with Planet Zoo.Having cut their park management teeth reinvigorating the Rollercoaster Tycoon series for Atari, back in the day, the Cambridge-based outfit, probably best known for the revered Elite series of space-trading games, have gone from strength to strength.Their … Continue Reading ››
EA Games has a lot riding on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Their use of what is a premium movie licence has not exactly produced stellar results. Whilst Star Wars: Battlefront 2 was a vast improvement on the first game, it still had its issues.For Fallen Order, EA have conscripted Respawn Entertainment (Apex Legends/Titanfall) to … Continue Reading ››
The Outer Worlds immerses players into a slightly tongue-in-cheek sci-fi role-playing adventure on the far side of the galaxy. Players take on the role of one of thousands of unfortunate colonists aboard the colony ship, Hope.During the journey from Earth the ship’s engines malfunction. Instead of arriving on a new world in the Halcyon System, … Continue Reading ››
Since its inception, Activision’s Call of Duty franchise has barely put a foot wrong. It’s had its ups and downs, development dramas (they lost of most of the Infinity Ward team), and narrative challenges. Call of Duty has taken us from the Second World War, though to the modern age and beyond into outer space. … Continue Reading ››
An ancient evil threatens to engulf Sanctuary in darkness, and new heroes have been called upon to face challenges the world has never seen before.Over the weekend, Activision Blizzard announced the next chapter in their action-role-playing series, Diablo IV, at their BlizzCon 2019 event in L.A. Attendees at the Anaheim event were the first in … Continue Reading ››
The beautiful game, the world’s game. Whilst not so much in New Zealand or, here in Australia. EA’s FIFA franchise remains the top sports video game in both countries. And for good reason.This year, on top of the usual visual tweaks and improvements, EA Sports have added somewhat of a game-changer to their premier sports … Continue Reading ››
For almost 30 years Norton software has been protecting PC users from viruses and other unwanted elements. Unfortunately, as the decades have rolled on, vulnerabilities across digital devices and the means to exploit them have become all the more sophisticated.Building on their Norton Security software suite, Symantec’s consumer cyber safety brand, now known as Norton … Continue Reading ››
