Category: PC
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Puzzle Agent 2 Review
At the conclusion of the first Puzzle Agent game, the FBI’s Department of Puzzle Research declared a ‘case closed’ on the eraser factory mystery, but many questions remained unanswered. For starters, the factory foreman was missing, the source of a ‘whispering madness’ hadn’t been pinned down, and what about the numerous sightings of little gnome-like creatures around…
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Dark Souls Review
Anyone who can’t remember Demon’s Souls… by all accounts can’t have played the game. No sane person could possibly forget the amount of sadistic anguish inflicted on them when this PS3 exclusive was released. Half role-playing game, half third-person brawler, and half ball-buster [that’s three halves! – Ed.], Demon’s Souls was probably responsible for a multitude…
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Far Cry 2 Review
Making an open-ended game with an expansive playing area can’t be easy. It’d be so much easier to make things linear, to guide the player every step of the way. So it’s always impressive when a developer pulls off a sandbox title that remains entertaining while giving the player freedom to muck around. Far Cry…
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Cuphead Review
Graphics have come a long way in the last 30 years. Gamers had to rely solely on their imagination back in the days of text adventures. Single pixels became the heroes in multiple adventures during the early 80s. By the 90s, characters started to show more detail, but gamers wanted more. For decades, developers have…
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Call of Duty: World At War Review
It’s been a tough start to the summer. Our needs as consumers have emptied our wallets, part time jobs at Burger King reluctantly picked up, credit cards maxed. The quality titles are here, and unfortunately Call Of Duty: World At War is one more to add to the bunch – albeit one that could potentially…
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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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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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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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The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Review
In a world where developers are pushing the creative boundaries of online gaming, The Elder Scrolls Online makes a determined play to stay relevant. Games like No Man’s Sky, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and even Friday the 13th bring fun ideas to multiplayer gameplay. Although not always successful, the failures tend to be caused by their own…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review
Its not often that a game falls into your lap that makes you sit up and take notice. In the grand Parthenon of PC titles there are several top tier franchises that stand out. Franchises like Sid Meier’s Civilization, Valve’s Half-Life, and Eidos’ Deus Ex. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been a long time coming. Its predecessor, Deus Ex, has…
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The Walking Dead – A New Frontier: Episode 4 and 5 Review
“I’m looking forward to seeing what the rest of the season has in store, particularly as far as the relationship between Clem and Javi is concerned. The first two episodes sow some interesting seeds as far as the plot goes, and I’m invested enough that I’m looking forward to seeing where things go. At the…
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands Review
magine you have a small fishbowl, one of those that sit on kitchen countertops. Put four goldfish in with a few decorations and you’ve got yourself a neat little fishbowl. Now imagine if you put everything in that fishbowl into a shark tank with a few more decorations. It’d look pretty empty with just four…
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NBA 2K13 Review
The NBA is due to tip off at the end of the month, and with it comes the release of NBA 2K13. Last year developers Visual Concepts produced a fantastic game, packed with incredible player detail and deep gameplay. So, the question is, can they do it again? While the short answer is yes, there…