Games reviewed… eventually
Following on from a brilliantly-received predecessor has to be hard. There must be a nagging thought that follows you, constantly asking whether you need to be as inventive as your precursor, or whether you ought to simply copy what they did and hope that lightning strikes twice. That discussion must have taken place at Ubisoft … Continue reading Far Cry 4
I don’t know how accurate this is, but I feel like Far Cry 3 is the game which really put the series on the map. I have played bits of both the first and second games, and I can see why they’d be popular but it’s my recollection that the third game is the entry … Continue reading Far Cry 3
Oh I have been looking forward to this one for a long time. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is just around the corner as of time of writing, and though I know I’m not terribly likely to play it on release - such a thing is the antithesis of the patient gamer ethos after all - it … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
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, Stealth It is London, 1888 and … Continue reading Jack the Ripper
When I first began this venture to review all of the Assassin’s Creed games, I really didn’t imagine it would take me the best part of two years! There’s very little left now - in terms of games I own, it’s this one and the Jack the Ripper DLC and then we’re into new and … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
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
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
Now we’re finally at the pirate game, woo! When Black Flag first released I remember being dead excited for it; the ship sections were by far the star of the show in Assassin’s Creed III, so the prospect of more of it was definitely a point in its favour. The question here though, as ever, … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
No, we’re not at the pirate game yet. Soon... Assassin’s Creed: Liberation (PC, PS3, PS4 [reviewed], PS Vita, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One) Released Oct 2012 | Developed / Published: Ubisoft Genre: Action-Adventure, Stealth The second game in Ubisoft’s dalliance with 18th-century America, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation was a simultaneous release alongside Assassin’s Creed III. Originally … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
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
