In a past editorial, I riled against the fact that most video game developers seem to consider ‘story’ to be one of the least important factors of a game. However, back in the 90s when adventure games were riding high, games were valued on the strength of their narratives, and few have been as acclaimed as Grim Fandango, which was recently remastered and released on PS4, PS Vita and Steam. Read more …
Tales from the Borderlands is (all together now!) an episodic point-and-click adventure game developed by Telltale and based on Borderlands, Gearbox’s popular FPS RPG series. The Borderlands series is fast-paced and entirely combat-focused, with its comical world and quirky characters acting as a foil for the action.
If someone anomalously put a gun to my head and demanded that I list my ten favourite games of all times, they’d be more than a couple big-budget AAA games on there (I love you Mass Effect), but sitting proudly amongst them would be Edward McMillen’s humble flash game, The Binding of Isaac. Read more …
Although it’s nice playing vast, graphically advanced games on our shiny new PS4s, they’ll always be a place for those neat little indie affairs, like Velocity 2x, which is available for free this month on Sony’s ‘PS Plus’ service.
For our new segment on reviewing the monthly PS Plus Instant Game Collection offerings, I fired up the Vita, downloaded Proteus and settled down to see what it’s all about.
So, what can I say about Proteus? Well, first would be that Proteus is not a game. I mean not in the sense that Mario Kart, Skyrim or Papers Please are games. It’s not even a game in the way that Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Souls are games. In the latter two, there was at least some point to the on-screen goings-on, regardless of how you felt about not actually controlling the action.
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Sony has been lacking a truly compelling Mario Kart clone for… well, for ever. We’ve had a whole spectrum of games which have attempted to ape Nintendo’s pole position racer, from the truly awful ModNation Racers: Road Trip, to the mediocre LittleBigPlanet Karting and at the other end of the scale, the surprisingly solid Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed, which was a great early addition to the Vita’s line-up.