Lee Bradley
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Strider
I’m old enough to remember Strider when it first hit consoles in 1989. The SEGA Mega Drive version blew my mind. It had a stunning futuristic aesthetic, a pumping techno soundtrack and an acrobatic ninja hero, making it a world away from the cutesy platformers of the time. I loved...
Rayman Legends
It’s almost impossible not to smile while playing Rayman Legends. Whether you’re leaping, floating and slapping your way through Michel Ancel’s sumptuous 2D platformer in single-player or co-op, there’s a kind of madcap, anarchic and joyful exuberance to it that’s undeniable. It’ll make you grin from ear to ear.
Fable Anniversary
There’s nothing quite like the Fable series. While many roleplaying games draw on the fantasy of Tolkien and George R.R. Martin, Lionhead’s leading franchise imbues fairy tale and folklore with the youthful adventure of the Harry Potter books, the irreverent buffoonery of Monty Python and the bawdy humour of Chaucer....
Need for Speed: Rivals
Drifting around a long, sweeping coastal road in Need for Speed: Rivals, behind the wheel of a roaring, tyre-screeching Ferrari 458 Spider, with cop car sirens blaring in your ears, supercars breathing down your neck and waves crashing in the distance, has to be one of the most enjoyable next-gen...
Brilliant combat, a sumptuously produced story and some of the best visuals we’ve ever seen make up for the limitations of the gameplay. Ryse: Son of Rome is bloody good fun.
Crimson Dragon
Crimson Dragon makes a terrible first impression. The opening sequence is a series of largely static screens with a dodgily delivered, terribly written voiceover attempting to convey a convoluted, poorly-told story. It’s an early indication that this may not be the game we’ve been looking forward to for the past...
Powerstar Golf
In the build up to the launch of the Xbox One, Powerstar Golf has been overlooked in favour of some of the sexier, more hardcore AAA titles up for grabs. Gamers didn’t seem bothered, the press wasn’t shown much of it, and attentions have generally been focused elsewhere. Maybe all...
XCOM: Enemy Within
There’s something deeply fucked up about the mechs in XCOM: Enemy Within. To create these clunking beasts, you first need to pick a soldier and amputate all of their limbs. It’s not a gory process, in fact you don’t see it at all other than in diagram form, but it’s...
Nobody understands licenses like TT Games. Over the course of eight years and a dozen or so LEGO games, the British studio has taken on numerous cherished properties and nailed every single one of them. Star Wars, Batman, Indiana Jones - whatever the source material, the LEGO games always display...
WWE 2K14
The intro to WWE 2K14’s 30 Years of WrestleMania mode can’t fail to draw you in. Tracing the evolution of the event from its slightly more grubby early days, right up to its current ultra-shiny status, the live-action footage offers up moments that’ll make even the most casual WWE fan...
From a first-person shooter set in the 1950’s to a squad-based third-person shooter set in the early 1960’s, via numerous missteps and delays, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has been on quite a journey. And while developer 2K Marin may be putting a brave face on it, it’s hard not to...
Metro: Last Light
Trudging through dank, gloomy tunnels, your breath rasping inside your gas mask, concerned about ammo levels and terrified that your rusty rifle might jam during the next encounter; that was the experience that defined Metro 2033, 4A Games’ stunning yet flawed debut.
