Games reviewed… eventually
Between being a console kid and never having anything approaching good laptops or PCs, Thief is one of those old-school PC franchises I’ve never had the fortune to play. I’ve certainly come across it on my jaunts across the web however; it seems to be a pretty well-loved game. The reviews for this 2014 reboot … Continue reading Thief (2014)
I am a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid. I’d like to say I love all things Metal Gear, but in truth other than a dalliance with the wild hack-and-slash mayhem of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, I’ve not played much outside of the Solid games. When it comes to those games though, oh my word … Continue reading Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
The Assassin’s Creed series is proper weird. We’ve seen the Crusades, punched the Pope into submission, signed the Declaration of Independence (well, stood around a bit while historical domain characters signed the Declaration of Independence) and even been a pirate but the one thing that all the games have had in common is heroes who … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Rogue
One of the first sights you come across in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is a slaughtered wolfhound on a makeshift altar and a diary detailing a former Bigmore witch despairing at the loss of her magic. It’s weirdly poignant, and along with the gritty and grey hues of the opening of it paints a … Continue reading Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
It’s finally time to take a look at the sequel to one of my all-time favourite games, Dishonored! Whereas the first game took me entirely by surprise with how brilliant it was, I was obviously more prepared for the quality on display in Dishonored 2. It had a hell of a legacy to live up … Continue reading Dishonored 2
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
Let’s head back in time, shall we? Back, far back, to the distant land of 2007, the era of our ancestors, by which I mean my slightly younger self. The entire Assassin’s Creed franchise was on sale on the Xbox One about a week before this article was written and so Microsoft’s big boxy behemoth … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed
Finally we come to the end of my foray into the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles side-games. After slowly souring as I played through China and sitting in a festering grump as I slogged through India it should come as no surprise that I was not particularly looking forward to Russia. It’s a shame that I felt … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia
So, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China was a bust. Bit of a shame but never mind, we live and learn. Well, some of us do but clearly not me because I’ve played another one. The follow-up to China is Chronicles: India; again, it’s a 2.5d stealth-based side-scroller but hopefully this one is a bit better. Assassin’s … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India
Good old Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft’s series that just won’t quit. Although the company pledged to take a break after the understated release of 2015’s Syndicate, it didn’t exactly turn out that way. Origins would be the next major release two years later but before that Ubisoft oversaw the release of not just a movie based … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China
The Almighty Backlog 