Lee Bradley
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Zombie Army Trilogy isn’t an especially well made game. It’s a bit buggy and cheap and it’s decidedly dumb. But it’s also capable of being really fun. Get online with a few friends, get the beers in, and laugh together as you massacre Hitler’s undead army, one squishy head at...
ScreamRide
Free from Kinect, Frontier has been able to deliver a game that revels in split-second timing and precise controls. The result is the studio’s best Xbox game in years that's a brilliantly fun coaster-racing, track-building, building destroying experience in its own right. ScreamRide feels like a reaction to the studio’s...
Evolve
In the run-up to Evolve’s launch, discussion surrounding Turtle Rock’s 4v1 competitive/co-operative shooter largely focused on whether players would still be interested a month after release. Will there be enough variation to keep players involved? Will it be too repetitive? Will it be balanced? Those were the questions. After a...
#IDARB
Fast, silly, disposable fun that excels at couch competition but falls short of our expectations for online play, #IDARB is nevertheless a brilliant laugh. Get a few mates ‘round and fire it up for guaranteed giggles.
Bringing older games to new consoles is something of an art. While in the old days just shunting out a port of a classic title was enough, now developers are competing to see who can add the most shine to their re-releases. Tomb Raider, GTA V, The Last of Us:...
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell is the easiest game I’ve played in ages. Coming in at around four hours (if you’re relatively direct), this standalone expansion is a breeze. The combat is undemanding, the supernatural abilities are hilariously overpowered, and even the final boss is a pussycat. You’d get...
Far Cry 4
Sequels don’t get much more sequelly than Far Cry 4. Where Far Cry 3 took the bare bones of Far Cry 2 (open world, exotic location, outposts, deranged bad dudes) and turned it into something altogether more crowd-pleasing, Far Cry 4 builds on its predecessor by essentially adding loads more...
Alien: Isolation
The concept of Alien: Isolation seems too good to be true. Proper survival horror, drawing on arguably the best of an iconic film series, in which you’re not a gun-toting soldier but a vulnerable engineer facing off against a single xenomorph? It’s a tantalising prospect.
Metro Redux
The Metro series has always been a triumph of world-building. From its dank, spider web-strewn underground tunnels, to its makeshift subterranean villages and the weak, bleary light of the ravaged surface - post-catastrophic Moscow is a brilliantly realised setting.
War is hell, that’s what we’re told. But in games, that’s a big fat lie. Plumes of blood erupting from enemy skulls, bodies flying through the air, huge explosions - as weird as it sounds, that’s the good stuff. Video game wars aren’t hell, they’re heaven for the wannabe Rambo...
Kinect Sports Rivals
Wii Sports set a high bar. Combining accessibility with the novelty of motion controls, it enlivened millions of family evenings across the world. Even my house got temporarily caught up in Wii Sports-mania, thanks to my wife Ruth. No mean feat considering she couldn’t give a crap about games.
Strider
I’m old enough to remember Strider when it first hit consoles in 1989. The SEGA Mega Drive version blew my mind. It had a stunning futuristic aesthetic, a pumping techno soundtrack and an acrobatic ninja hero, making it a world away from the cutesy platformers of the time. I loved...
