Games reviewed… eventually
It was with a bittersweet smile on my face that I came to the end of The Fate of Atlantis, the final piece of long-form DLC for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. It’d been a long time coming; I started playing Odyssey back in mid 2020 and while I took a little break in playing between now … Continue reading The Fate of Atlantis
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has a pretty fair track record when it comes to downloadable content, I feel. Over the years we’ve seen Ubisoft use additional paid content as a vehicle to produce some impressive releases, on par with expansions of the sort that old PC games used to enjoy. They haven’t all been amazing, … Continue reading Legacy of the First Blade
Like every modern AAA release it seems Arkham Knight had no choice but to release alongside a season pass containing a stack of additional content. As our final foray into Rocksteady’s Arkham-verse, let’s take a look into the various pieces of extra story content, collectively titled the Arkham Episodes. Arkham Episodes (PC, PS4 [reviewed], Xbox … Continue reading Batman: Arkham Episodes
I normally like these preambles to be vaguely introductory or to relay some sort of emotion I held before going in to a game, but this time I feel like it needs to be a touch different. Harley Quinn’s Revenge is a DLC epilogue to Arkham City and it feels impossible to discuss it fairly … Continue reading Harley Quinn’s Revenge
Well in fairness you can’t build a game set in Victorian London and not do something with the city’s most notorious serial killer now can you? Jack the Ripper (PC, PS4, Xbox One [reviewed]) Base Game: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate Released Dec 2015 | Developed / Published: Ubisoft Genre: Action-Adventure | HLTB: 3 hours It is … Continue reading Jack the Ripper
We're carrying on from where Black Flag left off, it's time for some more vaguely Assassin-themed piratical nonsense with Freedom Cry, a standalone expansion for Black Flag. Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One [reviewed]) Base Game: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Released Dec 2013 | Developed / Published: Ubisoft … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry
Assassin’s Creed is an inherently silly series. It’s a sci-fi with pretensions of being a historical action-drama that produces, with poe-faced seriousness, a narrative which posits all of history has been a never-ending conspiratorial war between Assassins and Templars, who are fighting over relics of an ancient, omnipotent precursor race. It’s utterly daft, which makes … Continue reading The Tyranny of King Washington
From Ashes (Released Mar 2012) Mass Effect 3's first piece of DLC begins with a distress beacon on Eden Prime, back where the series started. Known for its extensive Prothean ruins; it is where Shepard first comes into contact with the precursor race through a hellish vision imparted by a beacon. This time around, the … Continue reading Mass Effect 3 DLC
Kasumi: Stolen Memory (Released Apr 2010) Kasumi: Stolen Memory is part of a pair of DLC that each add a new character to Shepard’s team as well as their respective loyalty missions. Kasumi Goto is a master thief recruited aboard the Citadel; she is mysterious, naturally, but bright and bubbly - carefree and often joking, … Continue reading Mass Effect 2 DLC
And so we come to the end of my time with Assassin's Creed: Origins. The Curse of the Pharaohs is the final major piece of DLC for Ubisoft's adventure through Ptolemaic Egypt about one angry man and his love for stabbing lots and lots of people. Like The Hidden Ones before, it serves as an … Continue reading The Curse of the Pharaohs
The Almighty Backlog 