“This game is a narrative experience that will not hold your hand”.
Those are the opening words which greet the player as they take their first tentative steps into the beautifully rendered world of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a first-person adventure title available now on Steam. Read more …
After the first murderous roller-coaster of a chapter, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Evil Within was going to be an incredibly tense survival horror game in which the bruised and battered protagonist flees for his life from a series of murderous foes, á la Outlast. Read more …
Let’s cast our eyes back to the heady yesteryear that was 2013. The PS4 was on the horizon, and the gaming community waited with baited breath to see what delights were in their future. Unfortunately, the launch line-up was a little anemic to say the least.
However, there was one game that stood out from the crowd of sequels and mediocrity, and that game was Contrast, a third-person puzzle platformer which incidentally is also available on Xbox and PC. Read more …
Released in July 2014, Zombie Driver: Ultimate Edition, from Exor Studios is part of a growing trend of established PC titles being ported across, in various guises, to the new generation of consoles.
It makes sense really, from both the console manufacturer and the game developer’s perspectives. From the console manufacturer’s perspective, the title not only provides an additional entry in their release lists; demonstrating a greater raft of available titles to encourage prospective customers, but the game also has a proven track record of being viable commercially; it’s already sold units on another system. For the developers, it’s a no-brainer really; they can expand the available customer-base for their IP without having to make major changes. It replicates the sales avenue and projection of a new game, but without the trouble of actually having to produce a new game. For the gaming public it means they have a wider variety of games available to them on their expensive new console than they would otherwise have had.
Everybody wins right? Read more …
Tower defense games can prove to be a bit divisive; some find them an enjoyable strategic distraction from the high octane adrenaline fuelled world of first person shooters, whilst some view them as tedious drudgery barley scraping above being a marginally interactive screensaver. I however, fall into the first category. I find a good tower defence game to be something quite aesthetically pleasing; there is an idle joy to be had in watching strings of enemy units wind their way through a maze of laser beams and artillery fire, slowly dwindling down to being extinguished. As a fan then, when I saw the release of Defense Grid 2 on the Xbox One I felt that it might well be my sort of game. Read more …
Bungie’s latest space-age shooter has left many besotted and just as many confused. Here’s our take on the divisive epic: