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Lego Marvel’s Avengers Xbox One review

It’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s turn for the Lego treatment in the multi-movie mashup that is Lego Marvel’s Avengers.

TT Games have been fusing their unique Lego-inspired humour with pop-culture favourites for years now. Drawing heavily on the last few Marvel movies, Avengers invites us back into the TT’s Lego Marvel Universe. Continue reading Lego Marvel’s Avengers Xbox One review

Quantum Break Xbox One review

Lauded as the next big thing at the Xbox One launch way back in May 2013, Remedy’s twice delayed wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey sci-fi game/TV show hybrid, Quantum Break, is finally here.

I’m a huge fan of Remedy, going all the way back to the original Max Payne. Their Alan Wake is a one of my favourite games, dripping with the kind of immersive storytelling that is the Finnish developer’s hallmark.

With Remedy being no strangers to including live-action footage and TV-style episodic structures in their games, I wasn’t surprised way back in 2013 when Microsoft announced that the Windows 10 and Xbox One exclusive, Quantum Break, would merge an interactive game with a live-action TV show. Continue reading Quantum Break Xbox One review

Dirt Rally gets real

April sees the arrival of Codemasters’ Dirt Rally on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In anticipation, the award-winning publisher put their money where their mouth is and set out to prove to me just how close their rally game is to the real thing.

I’ve been playing Dirt Rally on PC since the game’s early access last year. Unlike the last couple of interactions of Codemasters’ Dirt series, Dirt Rally goes back to the franchise’s roots, offering up a solid and rather unforgiving rally experience. Continue reading Dirt Rally gets real

EA Sports UFC 2 Xbox One review

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 the previous entry. UFC 2 screams player modes in the manner that you’d expect from any game coming from the EA Sports stable. Continue reading EA Sports UFC 2 Xbox One review