Young children and hi-tech gadgets are never a good combination, but this is ridiculous. No sooner has a fancy new tablet been thrust into the hands of titular eight-year-old Amy than a train crashes, a ticket inspector knocks you out, and the whole world turns into flesh-eating zombies. And you thought it was bad when they drew on the walls or punched you in the gentleman’s area at the supermarket.
It’s been years since I ventured into Oddworld. There are fuzzy memories of chanting and distracting the Slogs of Sligs – or was it the Sligs of Slogs? – but they’ve long been shelved under ‘PlayStation nostalgia’. Stranger’s Wrath, the fourth game in the series, is an Xbox exclusive from 2005 – which means it’s only taken a mere seven years for it to cross into the light.
I love Steven Spielberg’s dino blockbuster like alcoholics love Irishing up their Monday morning frappuccinos. Seeing as it’s my favourite film ever, I naturally feel as protective of the IP as a feral grizzly guarding his ‘pic-a-nic’ basket. So no pressure on Telltale’s QTE-heavy adventure, then. Sadly, this shambolic, barely interactive experience dumps a tonne of Triceratops dung on my beloved celluloid childhood memories.
It’s Pyre Night (Sucker Punch’s version of Halloween) in New Marais, the streets are full of revellers doing their best skeleton impressions and the Twilight express has rolled into town. Fortunately, instead of being loaded up with brooding teenagers obsessed with ‘feelings’, it brings a new threat to the city: vampires.
Ever seen one of those nature documentaries that’s essentially a series of rodents being torn to meaty pieces by predators? Swarm is the videogame equivalent, played like a race against your own mortality.
The Burnout series has a lot of goodwill behind it, all of it merited. Paradise was brilliant, and made even more so thanks to the oodles of free DLC given away by Criterion. And although this digital effort is no replacement for a fully fledged title, its smash-happy take on the Highway Code does the franchise no harm.
Kratos’ handheld adventures remain two of the best games on PSP, but now the angry god-slayer’s backstory has found its way out of your lint-filled pocket and on to the big screen in this PS3-ified God Of War Collection Volume II. Following in the footsteps of the first collection, this disc packs in two games, both given an HD (and, for the first time, 3D) overhaul. And although the two…
For all Street Fighter IV’s brilliance, playing 3rd Strike over a decade after its release hammers home how conservative Capcom’s more recent brawler was. This emphasises precise execution over appealing to all comers, and is a forbidding game for new players – not least because only a handful of the roster (Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li) is familiar. The remainder are a wonderful bunch of freaks and misfits, from the Hulk Hogan/Andre…
Being in Sam Fisher’s increasingly geriatric stealthy slippers can’t be easy. After all, he spends roughly 76% of his time cowering from gun-toting terrorists in pitch-black missions that make the dark side of the moon look like Faliraki in mid-July. And when the gruff CIA operative’s not stuck in actual inky blackness, he’s forever cast in the figurative gloom of Solid Snake’s shadow. Poor, sneaky old sod.
This is like a restaurant serving you six starters and bugger all else, because the first question you’ll ask while playing this is: “Where’s the rest of it?” It feels like something important is missing from the package – a package that, at £11.99, is fairly pricey in PSN terms. And that something, despite the impression given by all the helmets, fireworks and stadia full of cheering fans, is the…
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