Luckless all-American hero, William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, continues his unfortunate misadventures in a terrifying alternative future where the Germans won the Second World War.Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes the action to an occupied United States as B.J. leads a rebellion to free his motherland.Having spent most of his life from the end of WWII to … Continue Reading ››
When I was asked if I wanted to review Espon’s new SureColor P5070 printer, I looked at the photo embedded in the email and thought, “why not”. I didn’t realise at the time that the piece of paper sticking out of the printer in the photo wasn’t A4… it was, in-fact, A2.So, when the printer … Continue Reading ››
2014’s Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor borrowed heavily from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series and Warner’s own Batman Arkham games. The result was a great open world game with exciting combat set within Tolkien’s fantasy world.Monolith and WB Games’ sequel, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, builds upon what had gone before to create a game that is, for … Continue Reading ››
Big Ben and Kylotonn’s World Rally Championship games have big shoes to fill. Shoes so big, courtesy of Codemasters and their Dirt games, that I tend to feel a bit sorry of them.For the past few years I’ve been hoping and praying that their WRC games can stand up to the Codies latest. Up till … Continue Reading ››
The release of Firaxis’ XCOM 2: War of The Chosen was just the excuse that I needed to return to their excellent turn-based sci-fi strategy game.Initially released in September 2016, XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the reboot of the classic, X-COM: Enemy Unknown from way back in 1994. A deep, turn-based … Continue Reading ››
Creative Assembly returns for another fantasy take on their popular strategy war-gaming series with Total War Warhammer II.For me, one of the major draws of the Total War games is the historical aspect. I wasn’t holding out much hope for last year’s fictional fantasy-based Total War Warhammer. Thankfully I was pleasantly surprised.Continue Reading ››
This year my counterpart in New Zealand and myself swapped reviewing duties when it comes to this year’s basketball games. Traditionally, or at least for the last couple of years I’ve reviewed EA’s NBA Live rather than NBA 2K. For the first time in a while, I’ve got to check out what 2K have been … Continue Reading ››
Telltale Games continues to mine famous third-party franchises to bring us their take on Marvel’s cosmic heroes with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy- The Telltale Series.There’s no doubting that the game seeks to cash in on the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, the second movie of which is now out on Blu-Ray. Fans … Continue Reading ››