Category: PC

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Since we’ve all read Lord of the Rings (you haven’t? You must have been living in a troll cave!), we already know all about its comprehensive and detailed telling of the journey of the fellowship. What you might have missed, however, is that there were other heroes involved, too. Lord of the Rings: War in…

Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers Review

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2009’s Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers was a great game. It was a good way for people new to Magic: The Gathering to learn how the game works and understand what a fun, strategic, and challenging game it can be. It was also fun for Magic veterans, even ones like me who haven’t played…

WWE 2K17 Review

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in PC, PS 3, PS 4, Reviews, Xbox 360, Xbox One

It’s important to remember that wrestling is not just about what goes on in the ring. It’s about the corporation, marketing, the backstage drama, management, and the media. Workers punch out bosses, commentators get in fights, wrestlers move in and out of character, in and out of the ‘real’ world and the fictional ‘wrestling’ one.…

Red Faction: Guerrilla Review

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We were introduced to the Red Faction series back in 2001 when it show-cased “Geo-Mod” technology – short for “geometry modification”. It gave us never-seen-before destructible environments and allowed players to demolish their surroundings and transform the terrain to their advantage. For example, instead of opening a door like a normal pleb you could blast…

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Review

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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was one of the best titles on the Xbox. Now after fives years we have the follow up, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Fresh out of prison, our titular hero finds himself on a Mercenary ship. His next course of action? Kill them and…

The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (XBLA) Review

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Nostalgia is a funny beast. It can make you go to great lengths, and yet leave you hanging right at the end. Take me, for example: I’ve gone to great lengths to re-live my Sega Saturn days. I’ve re-bought a Saturn, and re-bought many of the games I used to own on it (except Sonic…

Madballs (XBLA) Review

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Skipping straight past all the Madballs jokes I thought of when I first heard I was reviewing this title, I guess we had better start with just what a Madball is. While I certainly don’t remember the TV show from the ’80’s, I do think I may have had some of the toys. Madballs were…

Droplitz (XBLA) Review

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Okay, I’ll do it. I’ll be brutally honest from the start. I wasn’t really prepared to like Droplitz. A whole game similar to the least entertaining part of Bioshock, huh? But for the sake of Gameskeys, I’ll do it. I’ll trudge through a completely uninspiring dull puzzle game. Now don’t get me wrong, there are…

Mass Effect 3 Review

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in PC, PS 3, Reviews, Wii U, Xbox 360

Mass Effect 3 was one of the most anticipated games of the year, and promised to put the wraps on BioWare’s grand space adventure trilogy. When it arrived, the game was genuinely epic in content, but fan reaction to the game’s ending managed to outshine it even so. Threats of legal action, closed writing sessions…

Dishonored 2 Review

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After the unexpected hit that was 2012’s Dishonored, French developers Arkane Studios had their work cut out for them crafting a sequel that could do justice to their dark, supernatural steampunk stealther. Four years later, and Dishonored 2 has a lot to prove. Dishonored 2 takes place 15 years after Empress Jessamine Kaldwin was assassinated,…

Prototype Review

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Prototype puts you in the shoes of Alex Mercer, an everyman who for some reason wakes up on a slab at the county morgue. Why is he there? How is he no longer dead? What’s going wrong in the city? What’s going wrong with him?! Prototype is the latest sandbox game to come out of…

Dead by Daylight Review

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While Dead by Daylight lacks the pop culture legacy that another recently-released asymmetric horror game possesses, it reminds you that when a game executes its concept well, it doesn’t require a guy in a hockey mask for people to take notice. While the gameplay is fairly straightforward, the deep RPG-like upgrade system and the way…

Mass Effect 2 Review

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Bioware knows RPGs. They’ve been cranking them out since Jesus was a carpenter and they’re still in business for one very good reason: they’re damn good at what they do. Their back catalogue reads like a “best ever RPGs” list, with classics like Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age to name but two…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition Review

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If, for some reason, you’ve been living in a cave for the last half decade, with your eyes shut and fingers in your ears, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released to fanfare and acclaim way back in 2011. This instalment was notable for having true mass appeal, and garnered fans and awards like bees to…

Flock Review

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Flock seems like a childish title on the surface, but like many Xbox Live Arcade titles of this ilk, first impressions most definitely deceive. The premise is that you control an alien space craft, on a quest to round up sheep, cows, chickens and pigs to your mothership, dubbed as the ‘motherflocker’. You do this…

Dragon Age II Review

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I was pretty excited when I first laid my greedy eyes on Bioware’s Dragon Age II. The first one sucked up a good portion of my time, and though it had its flaws, in its own special way it did a satisfying job of sating my grumbling RPG urges. So it was a little unfair…

Fable III Review

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I’m always slightly shocked when I come across something really silly in a game with otherwise serious production values – after all, the game industry is big business, with massive budgets poured into spangly titles. Are developers really going to put budget into enabling a really good belch for your character? Well, if the developer…

Overlord II Review

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Sequel to the two year old Overlord, Overlord II doesn’t stray too far from the formula. Take control of the Overlord who in turn can control a bunch of minions. Wield said Overlord and his collection of demonic buddies as you wreak chaos across the land and build your own evil domain back in the…

Borderlands Review

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It really seems like less than a month has gone by since I first got the chance to first-hand; but here we are already in November, and the game at last has been released commercially. If you missed the earlier article – which got into the detailed aspects of the gameplay mechanics, as well as…

Battlefield 1 Review

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