I recently caught up with EA Sports’ Creative Director Brian Hayes to talk about the new modes and other improvements in EA Sports UFC 2.Vic B'Stard:Hi Brian, thanks for talking the time out to talk about UFC 2. Now, I really enjoyed UFC, and I still give it a go now and again, but … Continue Reading ››
Ubisoft takes us back in time, to the lush, yet brutal prehistoric land of Oros, with the latest instalment of their best-selling action-game series, Far Cry Primal.I thought that 2013’s weird retro sci-fi entry, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, was as left-field as Ubisoft could go with their Far Cry games, but I was wrong, … Continue Reading ››
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 ››
Wargaming.net, famous for it’s free-to-play World of Tanks games on console, tablet and PC as well as World of Warships on PC has just delivered a real tank to the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum in Cairns.The veteran games developer has shipped the Australian Cruiser Tank Mark 1 (AC1) from Texas, USA, to its new … 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 ››
