Witchers, mutated warriors; created to counter the threat of supernatural beasts against mankind. These monster hunters roam a medieval land, slaying creatures for coin using their mastery of blade, alchemy and magic.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, sees the return of the witcher Geralt of Rivia, in the concluding installment of his three-part tale. I’ve just spent the last week locked away with the PC version of CD Projeckt RED’s latest opus. Continue reading The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC review
Polish-American one-man army, William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, returns to kick Nazi and mutant butt, alike, in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. This standalone expansion is a prequel to last year’s hit first-person shooter, Wolfenstein: The New Order.
It’s 1946 and B.J., along with OSS Agent One have got themselves captured by the Nazi as they infiltrate the foreboding Castle Wolfenstein. Their mission: to steal a file containing details of the location of the villainous General Wilhelm “Deathshead” Strasse. With the plan in tatters, Blazkowicz must gun his way out of the fortress and escape from Castle Wolfenstein. Continue reading Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Xbox One review
Now, I’m not much of a sports fan, but I’m very partial to sports games. I learnt the rules of American Football so that I could get my head around Madden NFL 15. So when I was asked to take a look at Sony’s baseball game MLB 15: The Show on the PlayStation Vita just I couldn’t resist it.
As you are no doubt aware, baseball is a game of two aspects: batting and pitching. Unlike most other sports games, it lacks that continuously switching dynamic from attack to defence, instead, one side throws the ball and the other hits it. And, to be honest, this more structured and sedate gameplay does rather lend itself to mobile gaming. Continue reading MLB 15: The Show PlayStation Vita review
It’s got to be said that racing fans have been a bit spoilt of late. We’ve had Forza 5 and Forza Horizons 2 on the Xbox One, Driveclub on PS4, Ubisoft’s The Crew across all platforms and Codemasters with their F1 2014 and Grid Autosport on last-gen and PC.
With superior lighting and weather effects, huge road networks and meticulously modelled car physics this next-generation of racing games have raised the bar when it comes to virtual motorsport.
Enter Project CARS, a motor-racing simulator that seeks to push the genre to even greater heights. Continue reading Is Project CARS the greatest motor racing game ever made?
When State of Decay was first released back in 2013 for the Xbox 360 as a Live Arcade game it caused a bit of a stir. For starters, it was a pretty large-scale game amongst the usually bite-sized Arcade efforts and it was also rather good.
In Australia the game garnered itself an instant ban due to portraying the positive effects of taking drugs (i.e. painkillers and stimulants). Continue reading State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Xbox One review
The legendary Mortal Kombat series finally comes to the Playstation 4 and Xbox One with the cross-gen Mortal Kombat X.
Set, for the most part, 20 years after the last game, this first outing for the current-gen (but it is available for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well) introduces the offspring of several characters as well as bringing back some old favourites. Continue reading Mortal Kombat X PlayStation 4 review
I once heard it said that riding a motorcycle is as close as you can get to piloting a jet fighter without actually piloting a jet fighter.
And I tend to agree.
For a motorcyclist, there’s absolutely no comparison to be made between driving a car at breakneck speed and the absolute thrill of riding a motorbike at full throttle.
They are two very different animals.
Whereas a driver simply controls his car using pedals and a steering wheel, a motorcycle becomes an extension of its rider. The motorcyclist’s whole body influences the machine not just his hands and feet.
It’s a strange symbiotic relationship between man and machine that is very hard to explain, and even harder to translate into a video game. Continue reading Ride PlayStation 4 review
Yet another last-gen game gets a scrubbed-up new-gen re-release. This time it’s the turn of Capcom’s DmC: Devil May Cry.
Since 2001 we have been following the button-mashing adventures of Dante, a brash young man with a shock of white hair, and a thing about outlandish weapons, on a mission to avenge the death of his mother.
Four games and an anime series later and publishers, Capcom, decided to take the cult character in a new direction for the fifth outing handing development duties over to Brit outfit, Ninja Theory. Continue reading DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition PlayStation 4 review
