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EA Sports UFC 3
EA Sports UFC 3 quickly sets the tone as soon as you load it up for the first time with its cover star Conor McGregor, introducing you to the games tough striking mechanics and splicing together real world footage with visuals from the game itself to stylish effect. EA has...
InnerSpace
Flight is spectacular. Coined by some as the Icarus complex, there is innate desire in most humans to take flight to great heights. I’ve discussed in previous reviews that a great flight mechanic can make or break a game. Flight needs to feel liberating and simplified while also allowing for...
The Final Fantasy series has had an illustrious 30+ years of gaming excellence since its debut all the way back in 1987. From humble beginnings it has since become a gaming juggernaut, releasing fifteen main titles, several spin-offs, and even a sequel or two. It’s significance in the gaming world...
Subnautica
On board the spaceship Aurora you suddenly find yourself plummeting toward an alien planet after your ship is shot down. Inside a one-man escape pod you crash into a vast ocean biome and are knocked unconscious on impact. After waking you climb atop of your broken but floating pod to...
The Inpatient
Here comes The Inpatient in VR. Am I excited? Well Virtual Reality for video-games is a concept that has been around for a long time. The first VR headset was the Forte VFX1 that debuted at CES in 1994. Sony was a pioneer and produced the Glasstron in 1997. You...
Shadow of the Colossus
In 2006 I had a fairly good idea what I thought a video game should be. I’m sure we all did when we were teenagers. At the time I was living away from home and studying in another city, on weekends I would visit my mum and we would play...
Monster Hunter: World
Monster Hunter as a franchise has always felt a bit like a secret club that only its members truly understand. It’s known for its difficulty spike and lack of hand-holding (despite primarily featuring on handheld consoles like the 3DS in recent years) which can be frustrating and off-putting for newcomers,...
Lost Sphear
Tokyo RPG Factory’s latest offering, Lost Sphear, is an ode to the era of RPG classics such as Chrono Trigger and Xenogears. Following 2016’s I Am Setsuna, another love letter to the days-gone-by, the game builds upon the foundation Setsuna laid by focusing certain mechanics and introducing new ones. At times...
Iconoclasts
Making things is hard, making things on your own is even harder—or at least that is what math has taught me. While I am not a game developer I would like to take a stab in the dark here and say that a game is one of the hardest things...
Dragon Ball FighterZ
After the announcement of a Dragon Ball FighterZ and seeing its 2D stylised form of combat I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this latest iteration. Dragon Ball games have taken on many forms in years past, each series with its own unique spin on the popular anime’s style...
Brawlout
If like me you own a Nintendo Switch then you’ll likely agree that it’s been missing one thing since its launch last year, a ‘Smash’ genre type game. Well Brawlout by developer Angry Mob Games is here to fix all of our woes. After hitting PC back in April last year...
Hello Neighbor
On the surface, Hello Neighbor appears to be a colourful, slightly-twisted, stealth/horror title with an emphasis on creative breaking and entering. Underneath, Hello Neighbor is a frustrating exercise in trial-and-error, a bug-laden slog, and an unfulfilling grind to try and get from A-to-B.
