It’s EA Sports’ newcomer of a franchise, the mixed martial arts fighting game UFC, that kicks of this year’s barrage of sports sims with its second outing, UFC 2.Building upon 2014’s flawed, but generally well-received EA Sports UFC, EA Canada have spent the last two years creating a feature-rich sequel that’s a marked improvement on … Continue Reading ››

I return to 2014’s The Crew, to try out the open-world racing game’s recent Wild Run expansion.Just over a year ago Ubisoft’s The Crew gave us a huge open world racer made up of a patchwork of the entire USA. As the spiritual successor to Test Drive Unlimited, it was good, but flawed. My review … Continue Reading ››

It’s time, once again to run, jump and hide from the zombie horde in Techland’s Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition. With a vast new area to explore, a vehicle to drive and polished visuals this may just be the excuse the you’ve needed to return to Dying Light.The Following continues the zombie-parkour gameplay from … Continue Reading ››

I come from a generation of gamers that played rather a lot of platform games back in the day. Mainly because back in the day most games were platform games. That why, these days, I generally avoid them like the plague. There are, of course, exceptions.Unravel is one of those exceptions.For a publisher known for … Continue Reading ››

Narrative adventure, Firewatch, joins the likes of Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture, Gone Home and Dear Ester in providing a relatively passive gaming experience with a profound story.I warn you now, like its peers, Firewatch isn’t going to be for everyone.Termed walking simulators by their critics these new ways of interactive story-telling aren’t really games … Continue Reading ››

For twenty years Earth has been ruled by its alien masters, known as The Elders. The will of the brave men and women of the Council of Nations Extra-terrestrial Combat Unit (also known as XCOM) where unable to defend against the alien invaders. Whilst the battle may have been lost, the fight isn’t over.XCOM 2 … Continue Reading ››

PC owners finally get to play what can only be described as the definitive version of Lara Croft’s latest adventure, Rise of the Tomb Raider.Square Enix’s sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot was released late last year as a timed Xbox exclusive. With fantastic visuals on the Xbox One, Rise of the Tomb Raider … Continue Reading ››

It’s not too unfair to say that the Call of Duty franchise has now mutated so far from its initial premise, that, perhaps, the games should no longer be branded as such. Trayarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 pretty much confirms it, the game’s clandestine sci-fi setting being a far cry from the Second … Continue Reading ››