Category: Xbox One

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Coming off the trail of one trend into another is always interesting to watch. Fatigue of modern-era games means the big-wigs who inspire the rest to inevitably follow their lucrative lead must now find a new avenue of war. Activision have steadily been going the way of sci-fi, perhaps unaware that space fatigue is also…

The Wolfenstein franchise has a long and bloody history or killing Nazis. The later games have also been rife with social commentary, moral dilemmas, and much more heartstring tugging than a game about killing Nazis should have. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is no exception. The game follows five months after the New Order, after…

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is an open-world, first-person tactical shooter. It’s the third entry in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series (the “3” is the clue) and the first I’ve played. It’s the first I’ve played because I don’t snipe. Slow-motion bullet cams and exploding heads are not really my cup of tea, which you will…

Advanced Warfare dropped in 2014, it took Call of Duty in a new direction. Snappy lateral dashes, and an emphasis on verticality remapped the series’ DNA for years to come. But – as with anything – fatigue set in. Players longed for simpler gameplay, and a return to more traditional movement. The popularity of last…

FromSoftware have had a good track record with their downloadable offerings. Dark Souls 1, 2, and Bloodborne had extra content that expanded on the story of their respective universes, while offering a stiff challenge that only the most devout followers could truly appreciate. Their first batch of extra content for Dark Souls III however, may…