Games reviewed… eventually
There's nothing quite like a reboot! Tomb Raider is an awfully well-established franchise and like all long-running series eventually it needs a bit of a revamp to keep it relevant and interesting. I have fantastically clear memories of the original Tomb Raider game on PS1; it was one of the first games I ever owned … Continue reading Tomb Raider
What’s that, "More Ezio!" I hear you cry? Yessir, we’re on our third game starring our favourite Florentine vagabond-turned-Master Assassin, but this time we’re definitely in the endgame. And perhaps, just like our hero, we’re all getting a little bit tired. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One [reviewed]) Released Nov 2011 … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Titanfall is one of the games that really has never been on my radar. I’m not wild about first-person shooters, and I had a very specific set of games in mind that I wanted to play when I upgraded to current gen consoles. But I’m also a proper sucker for some deals so when Titanfall … Continue reading Titanfall 2
You didn’t think Ezio’s story was done with II, did you? By 2010 Ubisoft had begun to settle well into the yearly-release pattern that would see them release another approximately 8 billion Assassin’s Creed titles, and given that Ezio was such a fan-favourite character it was unsurprising to see him get another game. The question … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
One of the problems with fanfiction is when it just doesn’t get the characters right. It’s just such an annoyance, you know? If you’re a big enough fan of a work to want to write some new stories using a pre-existing universe and characters, you’d think you would take a moment to ask yourself whether … Continue reading Injustice 2
Assassin’s Creed II is great for cold opens. Our hapless present day protagonist is rescued from the shadowy, sinister Abstergo corporation, whisked away by a tiny team of Assassins who quickly pop him back in the Animus. Then, as we’re loaded up with the memories of a new ancestor, we get hit straight away with … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed II
And so another trilogy of old-school PS1 platformers is done (well, in remake form at least). The N-Sane Trilogy comes to an end with Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, the 1998 entry to Naughty Dog’s platformer series starring the eponymous deranged marsupial. The original release was one of the most well-received and best-selling games on the … Continue reading Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (N-Sane Trilogy)
Unlike the first Crash Bandicoot, let’s look at a game I actually had some level of genuine nostalgia for! I never owned Crash 2: Cortex Strikes Back but do remember it very clearly from those halcyon days of late-night playthroughs at friends’ houses. The first game doesn’t exactly occupy a beloved space in my memory … Continue reading Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (N-Sane Trilogy)
Finally we come to the end of this long-awaited dive into my childhood. Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon is the third and last entry into the Spyro trilogy and fittingly it goes all out in all the ways that only a turn-of-the-millennium 3D mascot platformer can. Multiple playable characters, vehicle sections, bigger and flashier … Continue reading Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Spyro Reignited)
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 Assassin’s Creed: Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs
