Formula One, the most prestigious and most glamourous motor sport championship in the world. Every year we watch as madmen hurtle around circuits at breakneck speed with only a flimsy carbon fibre chassis between them and their certain doom.For as long as there have been video games, there have been Formula One games.I remember my … Continue Reading ››
There’s nowhere quite like Hong Kong- a bizarre mash-up of eastern mystery, skewed by its British colonial history. It’s a city that has produced some of the most awesome action movies ever made, giving us legends like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat.Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is a remastered version of the hit … Continue Reading ››
Tying together two things that I have a bitter-sweet relationship with, Japanese-style story-telling and the Kinect, I knew that my experience with Microsoft Studios’ D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die would be interesting if nothing else.D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is a game solely controlled with speech and Kinetic gestures. It’s an odd experience that requires … Continue Reading ››
Be careful what you wish for. How it pains me to write that phase at the start of my Alien: Isolation Review. But that single line succinctly explains my experience with the game.Alien: Isolation has everything I’d want in an Alien game.Set some years after Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 Alien movie, the game cast players … Continue Reading ››
Following hot on the heels of Dead Rising 3, yet another day-one Xbox One release makes the transition to the PC.Ryse: Son of Rome is an epic and very cinematically presented tale of conflict and treachery set during the Roman occupation of Britain. The plot follows the life of Marius Titus, a Roman legionary whose … Continue Reading ››
Originally intended as a PlayStation 4 launch title, DriveClub has been a long time coming. Despite an extra year to polish it up, In the middle of my review the multiplayer servers packed up, so I was unable to really check out the multiplayer aspect of the game.I did, however, take the time to check … Continue Reading ››
At the EB Expo 2014 in Sydney, Ubisoft were showing off a live theatre demo of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity. Afterwards I sat down for a chat with Ubisoft Montreal’s Jeffery Spacer, Unity's production manager.Darren: Hello Jeffery, thanks for taking the time to chat with me.Jeffery: No problem.Darren: Now, I’ve got to ask, what’s … Continue Reading ››
Ordinarily I’d avoid a Middle-Earth game like the plague. I’m a bit funny when it comes to fantasy games and even funnier when it comes to movie tie-ins.Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is both.To say my alarm bells were ringing as slipped the disc into my PS4 would be an understatement.Shadow of Mordor is a … Continue Reading ››
