Sports games should always be an easy sell: the task of the developers working on such games is simply to provide a workable implementation of an already well-known set of rules to fit around the limitations of any input devices that may be at one’s disposal in the course of playing games. For the most … [Read more…]
A video review of Jamestown. More of these will probably be coming, and hopefully with a little more finesse.
DmC is evidence of all of the worst of Western excess: it is a torrid experience to play through and is bound to leave a sour taste in even the most liberal of people’s mouths. The true shame behind this state of affairs is that the crass, rude and infantile veneer that serves as the … [Read more…]
Heart; passion; love: this trifecta is something that we have to struggle to achieve in video games of late. The mass marketisation of the medium has led to some unfortunate financially motivated decisions, most prominently the release of identikit game after identikit game, with the singular difference between one game and the next being the … [Read more…]
There’s a lot to be said for breaking genre staples, for thinking thoroughly outside of the box to deliver a game experience the likes of which has not been seen before. Consideration, however, must also be given to the fact that expectations around genre exist for a reason: the core mechanical tropes exist because they … [Read more…]