Games reviewed… eventually
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
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)
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 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)
Mass Effect is a story about a hero and a chase, an exciting power-fantasy as Shepard tracks a traitorous villain across the galaxy. Mass Effect 2 takes on a far darker edge, overshadowed by the unavoidable sense of resignation that the mission to defeat the Collectors is suicidal. The move into more grim and serious territory is … Continue reading Mass Effect 3
Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer is one of my absolute favourite games of all time. It’s one of those games that truly defined my childhood and some of my earliest and most vivid gaming memories are of it. The music, the visuals, even entire levels are burned into my brain; every now and again something … Continue reading Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage (Spyro Reignited)
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
