Category: Reviews
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NieR: Automata Demo Review
The free demo was released on December 22nd of this year and we got to try the up-and-coming action role-playing game developed by Platinum Games and published by Square Enix. We give you detailed info on the entire free demo experience! Here’s a trailer of the game if you haven’t seen it yet: Story Invaders…
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Super Jump World Plus Review
If you missed out on Monino, a Super Mario Bros. clone that soiled the App Store last year for a few hours before being pulled, then your next best shot at playing a cheap Mario rip-off on iOS was Super Jump World Plus. Unfortunately, the game was removed from the App Store yesterday before we…
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Delta-V Racing Review
If you ever wondered what a combination between F-Zero and Gradius would look like, the answer is probably something like Delta-V Racing. You don’t get the same sense of speed that you experience when you play F-Zero, but you do get futuristic-looking cars and a power-up system that seems like it would be right at…
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Infinity Blade Review
Infinity Blade is not a role-playing game. Role-playing games generally have deep storylines, large casts of characters, and game worlds you can explore at your leisure. Infinity Blade has none of those things. Instead, it has some of the most visceral action we’ve experienced on the platform, a well-tuned equipment system, and a gorgeous and…
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Temple Run 2 Review
When developers make a game as wildly popular as Temple Run, they usually don’t want to change the formula too much in a sequel. With Temple Run 2, the folks at Imangi Studios have played it fairly safe, but they’ve managed to improve on just about every aspect of the original. Temple Run 2 uses…
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Lunar Silver Star Story Touch Review
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was actually a remake of a Sega CD endeavor, but it’s the first brush many of us had with the brilliant RPG Lunar: The Silver Star. The classic tale of a Dragonmaster and his dearest companions has made its way to iOS as a fantastic mobile port under the name…
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R-Type Dimensions Review
R-Type is a title that any old-schooler should be familiar with. The hard as nails arcade game was immensely popular back in the day. Sure, it wasn’t one of the first shmups ever made, but it did really nail the genre and inspired most other horizontal scrollers in some way. One of the most recognisable…
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Forza Horizon 3 Review
Playground Games have done it again. Forza Horizon 2 was my favourite game of 2014, its replayability giving the open world driving game plenty of legs, with MyRepublic gaming nights still being held regularly by NZGamer.com two years on. I didn’t think driving around Southern Europe could be topped, but with Forza Horizon 3 shifting…
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The Wheelman Review
Milo Burik is The Wheelman. He drives, shoots, beats people up and talks smack, usually at the same time. If you think that might be a chore for any normal man, you’d be right. However, Milo is played by Vin Diesel, and from our Vin we would expect no less. That’s the way Vin, and…
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FIFA 13 Review
Did you know that the FIFA videogame franchise has been around for nearly 20 years? From a time when displaying the game in an isometric viewpoint was revolutionary, through to today where you can use the GamePad to look through the eyes of the kicker for free kicks, EA Sports have tried to keep pushing…
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Assassin’s Creed Origins Review
Assassin’s Creed taking a year off and coming back with the Egyptian setting in Origins is like your Mum going to a spa retreat in Egypt. She’s going to get a mani-pedi, get a volcanic mud face mask with a couple of those thin slices of cucumber over her eyes, and she’s going to come…
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Sonic & Knuckles (XBLA) Review
Some of the readers on this site will be too young to remember Sonic’s glory days. Imagine that. Only being familiar with 3D Sonic games and not playing the occasionally brilliant handheld games. Misty eyed gamers, or those that plain missed out now have the opportunity to play as the pointy one when he was…
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Puzzle Quest Galactrix Review
Before Puzzle Quest, match three games were plentiful enough but they tended to stick to the basics: match three like-coloured objects to clear them from the board; game ends when there are no more moves to make. That pretty much summed up the genre. Puzzle Quest, however, dared to take that mechanic and add an…
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Lost Planet 2 Review
The developers of Lost Planet 2 weren’t kidding when they said that this sequel would be completely different to the original. Soon after their announcement, in-game screenshots of steamy jungles and fern smattered landscapes started to appear. It certainly was a huge departure from the bleak, icy and blindingly white tundras of the first game.…
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is arguably the best movie to come from Michael Bay’s crack at the franchise thus far – now the tie-in is here and it’s the first Transformers game to feature a multiplayer mode. This title offers a respectable roster of five playable Transformers for each side and a few unplayable…
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Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge (XBLA) Review
Red Alert 3 as an XBLA game? Surely this will be a very simplified version of the game, or maybe even a completely different style of game using the Red Alert franchise? Red Alert mini-games perhaps? To my surprise, Commander’s Challenge is a full, stand alone expansion to the Red Alert 3 universe. Basically this…
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Need for Speed Payback Review
After all the racing simulators this year, I’ve been missing the simpler times of arcade racers. The Burnouts, the Crazy Taxis, the MotorStorms, the WipeOuts, the Ridge Racers – even the Pod Racers. Their simple and bombastic nature is a retro contrast to the scientific approach many modern racers take. Nowadays, arcade racing is largely…
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Dungeon Defenders Review
I love mixing Peanut Butter and Chocolate. The combination of their tastes and textures blend so perfectly for me; I just love it. Similarly, Dungeon Defenders has that blend of Action Role Playing Game (ARPG) and Tower Defense that works so perfectly together. With a colourful and fun art style, a variety of monsters, some…
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Terminator: Salvation Review
After recently playing X-Men: Origins: Wolverine, my faith in successful movie-to-game adaptations had been restored slightly. Unfortunately, Terminator: Salvation has managed to completely undo this new found hope. It is a poorly conceived goulash of terrible level design, mediocre voice acting, dodgy graphics and buggy gameplay. In fact the best feature of the game is…
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Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection Review
Whenever Assassin’s Creed is mentioned, I can only think of one name that embodies the nature of series over the near-dozen characters that have featured: Ezio Auditore da Firenze. His charm, tale of revenge, and the parallel storyline of Desmond in present day stand head and shoulders above the rest. With Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio…