Dirt Rally PlayStation 4 review

Colin McRae’s legacy lives on with the back-to-basics gameplay of Codemasters’ Dirt Rally. A far cry from the over-the-top antics of the last few Dirt games, Dirt Rally is a comparatively real-world rally-driving masterclass.

Shunning arcade antics and arena stunt shows, Dirt Rally offers rally fans the same sort of apology Codemasters gave fans of their Grid games with their pure-bred street-racer Grid Autosport. I’ll you now, console fans, Dirt Rally is the rally game, and perhaps the motorsport game that you’ve been waiting for. Continue reading Dirt Rally PlayStation 4 review

AC1 Sentinel World of Tanks interview with The Chieftain, Nicholas Moran

Wargaming.net is famous for its free-to-play historic military battle games World of Tanks and World of Warships. In the pursuit of historical accuracy, the publisher has also been involved in the recovery and preservation of classic military hardware.

The game publisher recently permanently loaned an Australian AC1 tank, that they purchased and imported from the USA, to The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Cairns. I was there at the unveiling of the newly restored tank. Continue reading AC1 Sentinel World of Tanks interview with The Chieftain, Nicholas Moran

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

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