Ken Barnes
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All in all, F1 2014 feels like a half-hearted attempt at providing an annual update. The development team is at work on a “new F1 experience” for Xbox One that’s due to come out at the start of the 2015 season, which kicks off in less than six months. Whether...
Was it not for what feels like an overly-long period of hand-holding when you first start out and some other noted minor issues, a perfect ten would have been on the cards here. Forza Horizon 2 is easily the Xbox One’s best driving game and also easily one of the...
While the off-pitch changes this year are relatively minor, the on-pitch ones in FIFA 15 are important and generally good. The goalkeepers are going to be what divides the fanbase this time around. Some will love them, whilst others will generally hate them. At one point or another though, everyone...
NHL 15
NHL 15 plays a great – if somewhat atmosphere-free – game of hockey, but the sheer amount of modes missing from the package as a whole mean that unless you become obsessed with Ultimate Team or enjoy playing severely limited career modes, there’s very little to actually do. When a...
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate is a tough game to score, make no mistake. Fans of the series will chastise us for rating it so low, and that’s probably fair. If you’re a fan, you’ll enjoy it due to the sheer amount of characters on hand from all of the Warriors...
Sacred 3 has been in development for four years, we’re told, but it really doesn’t show. In order to fix issues with the previous titles, the development team have simplified the game by removing pretty much everything that isn’t absolutely essential, before throwing in a puerile script that does nothing...
Despite its many shortcomings, GRID Autosport is a decent game. There’s plenty of fun to be had in single player mode generally, even though multiplayer is pretty much a bust. If you’re a fan of the previous games in the series, then it won’t disappoint, even though we’d liked to...
It’s easy to look at FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil and point at the cynical nature of the release, or to shout from the rooftops that EA are a bunch of bandits who are just trying to rip us off by giving us rebranded tat. But the fact is that...
Kinect Sports Rivals is far from the definite article that was required to show off the difference between Kinect's generations. The fact that Kinect recognises the opening and closing of your hand with startling accuracy in wake racing and rock climbing is an undoubted high point, and shows that the...
As a package, MxGP just isn’t up to scratch. Of course, fans of motocross will get a kick out of being able to belt around the official tracks, on an official bike (even though they all handle very similarly), against representations of the same real-world opposition that they watch compete...
Titanfall is a genuine improvement on the standard multiplayer FPS fare that we’ve come to expect. By turning the game’s campaign mode into a series of well-balanced multiplayer matches, Respawn ease you into the gameplay slowly. Once you’ve ploughed through those 18 rounds though, you’ll realise that you’re unashamedly hooked.
Fans of the show should be going after The Stick of Truth without even thinking twice. Gamers who fancy a diversion from the super-serious RPGs and shooters that fill the shelves at the moment would be well advised to give it a spin, too. Obsidian have done extremely well under...
