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
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
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
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
Mass Effect's defining moment for me came late in the second act, on Virmire, with Commander Shepard forced to make a tough decision upon which lives were balanced. It was an especially dark point in a story that had been, up to that point, finely balanced between epic sci-fi action and sinister undertones. Mass Effect … Continue reading Mass Effect 2
The moment I was sold on Mass Effect came on Virmire. It was there, on what should have been a paradise world of tropical sun and gently lapping streams, that Shepard makes a choice. It’s not a nice choice; it’s a hard, cruel choice, one that promises ramifications that will echo through future events and … Continue reading Mass Effect
In the long list of game franchises I have nostalgia for, there is none more odd for me than Rayman. The first Rayman game, an at-first charming sidescrolling platformer that quickly revealed itself to be hellishly difficult to beat, was my first console game ever. Since that far-off Christmas Day when I first played it, … Continue reading Rayman Legends
