Category: PC
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Batman – The Telltale Series: Episode 4 Review
Something that annoys me to no end are complaints against a story where supposedly ‘nothing happens’. Usually that’s not actually the case – the person involved just has difficulty separating their task-oriented personality from their leisure. The only obligation a story has is to be an experience – not to accommodate our obsession with performance…
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Medal of Honor Review
Despite the name, this Medal of Honor is in fact the sixth game in the series to be released on PC (including two expansions) with countless spinoff titles having also been released on consoles. Unlike previous games, however, this particular title has managed to attract the attention of a lot of mainstream media – due…
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Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Review
Remember when you were a kid, and you would call out that you were going to the park, and your mum would yell back to take your little sister, and off you’d go, and she’d cry and moan the whole way? Enslaved is exactly like that. Except that it’s set in a post-apocalyptic world where…
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game, available on PC, 360, and PS3. If you’re interested in finding out more about the specific implementation of the mechanics, or would like to know how the graphics (or other technology) compares to other titles, be sure to check out. Hadyn’s coverage of the title comes from…
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Rage Review
id Software. The name of the company is synonymous with the entire first person shooter genre – it’s not something anyone else can claim, and for good reason: they invented it*. So when they release a new one, the world pays attention. Their last new IP, Quake, was rather successful. It took the concepts crafted…
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Homefront Review
After playing Homefront I cannot help but feel bad for Kaos Studios (the developer) because you can tell a lot of love and work was put into it. The problem is that when you put all of that aside there is, sadly, almost nothing special about this first person shooter. Set in the year 2027,…
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Torchlight Review
In 1997 a few good folks got together and made one of role-playing gaming’s standout and breakthrough titles. Three years later they did it again. No, this review is not about Diablo – but it is about a game that’s its virtual clone. And that’s to be expected, Torchlight was developed by Runic Games –…
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The Godfather II Review
Firefighter. Astronaut. Policeman. These were all pretty stock-standard responses from kids when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. However I’m pretty sure I wanted to be a Don – much to my primary teacher’s shock. Coppola’s trilogy of masterpieces portrayed a gritty, dark but overwhelmingly attractive view of the Mafia. There…
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Ashes Cricket 2009 Review
As England and Australia currently battle it out in the Ashes series overseas, cricket fans will soon be able to step up to the crease with Ashes Cricket 2009. Cricket games definitely are few and far between (in fact if memory serves me right, the last one we saw was back in 2007). This time…
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FIFA 17 Review
Usually I struggle to come up with new things to talk about with each annual update of FIFA – but not so with FIFA 17. There are a number of changes to the franchise this year, starting with the obvious graphical changes now that the game has ditched the Ignite engine. Instead EA have opted…
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Splinter Cell: Conviction Review
Despite being nearly a pensioner, Sam Fisher’s still got it. Scaling buildings, severing spines and suspending himself upside down by his thighs for extended periods of time are still no problem for our aging hero. In fact now he’s growing himself a beard – which we imagine can only triple his awesomeness once fully grown.…
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InFamous Review
Though it may not seem it, superhero adventure inFamous isn’t such a huge leap from its Sly Cooper cutesy platformer predecessors as it first appears. Like fellow Stateside Sony developers Naughty Dog and Insomniac, Sucker Punch have eschewed the cartoony nature of their PS2 work to focus on a more mature premise with a dark…
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F1 2017 Review
I’m going to admit it. I was a bit worried when I loaded up Codemasters’ latest racer. Formula One games haven’t gone well for me in the past. I’d crash and fail for hours. Finally I’d turn all the assists way up, turn the difficulty down as far as it would go, and try to…
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Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Review
Playing games like Call of Duty must do wonders for the recruiting numbers for armies around the world. Running around at full pace and slaughtering a dozen men with a single clip of ammunition certainly is fun… but then again, war shouldn’t be fun. It’s a matter of survival. This is where Operation Flashpoint: Dragon…
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The Sims 3: Showtime Review
Showtime is the sixth Sims 3 expansion pack to hit our shores, and it’s packed full of divas, knife-juggling, genies, as well as a significant expansion into the social media arena. But with a plethora of expansion packs already released for the Sims 3, is Showtime a must-have or a wait-for-the-sales title? Like other expansion…
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Pid Review
Waking up on a strange planet, he stumbles to the nearest bus stop, where a couple of old men inform him there’s an indeterminate wait for the next bus… if it ever arrives at all. Nice to know that public transport is universally unreliable, eh? Anyway, rather than stay and wait, Kurt decides to take…
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Chaos on Deponia Review
The ending of Deponia paved the way for a sequel, and whaddaya know… a mere three months later, here it is. Everything we enjoyed about the original is back, and there’s more of it. In the name of expediency (and to cut down on the word count), why not take a moment to check out to…
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Duke Nukem 3D Review
The original Duke Nukem 3D is an incredible game, no arguments about that. While the character himself is fondly remembered, it was the solid gameplay and level design that made the game what it was. Duke quipping ‘Get dat crap outta here!’ was just the icing on the Playboy Playmate. This 3D Realms classic has…
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Game of Thrones Games Review
Game of Thrones is like Harry Potter, except if, instead of Snape zapping Dumbledore, Dumbledore had whipped out a poleaxe and sliced off Snape’s greasy head, and then sold all the Hogwarts children into slavery. Then they’d be exactly the same, and Harry Potter would probably be better. So it’s somewhat strange that Cyanide studios…
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Final Fantasy XIV Online Review
Games don’t get to a fourteenth iteration in the series, with an additional bevy of side games, without shipping units. In Final Fantasy’s case, the number of units shipped is massive – around 100 million at last count. In the 23 years since the first one, the series has formed a massive fanbase and created…