Justin Mahboubian-Jones
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The phrase ‘Optional Challenge Tomb’ says a lot about Rise of the Tomb Raider. This is what the game chooses to call its puzzle-driven chambers. Is Tomb Raider still a game principally about, err, raiding tombs when it treats its namesake activity like a side salad? One that comes with no croutons and way too much dressing.
They’re the regular antidote to a gaming scene obsessed with realism and mechanical complexity. It’s hard not to have fun with a franchise so uniquely whimsical and carefree in a market of solemn-faced manshoots and gritty sci-fi universes. All they ask is that you have a giggle, smashing brick-things to make more brick-things – and in Star Wars, Lego may have found its perfect partner.
What we had already seen of Overwatch was phenomenal and had us itching for more time with Blizzard’s team FPS, and now our prayers have finally been answered. Today the servers have gone live, the ribbon has been cut, and 21 amazing heroes have been unleahed into the big bad world. Overwatch has landed.
Wait. What’s that ear-splitting noise? I just helped a crew of robots launch their 19th century wooden ship airbound.
Sometimes we gamers are an awfully cheap date. Slap a couple of Ewoks and a jetpack in a pre-rendered trailer and our hearts are all aflutter.
Yes, you read that right, the last time I hopped into the shoes of Master Chief was in Halo: Combat Evolved approximately fourteen years ago. Halo’s sluggish handling and flavourless sci-fi simply wasn’t my cup of tea.
The Arkham series transformed the action game canon, and now, six years after the release of Asylum, some games are still paying very direct homage. We all know Batman: Tolkien Edition, aka Shadow of Mordor, and now I’d like to introduce the next Bats wannabe: Batty Batman, aka Mad Max.
You creep into an enemy base inside a cardboard box that, when stationary, the guards don’t seem too suspicious of.
If Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight film trilogy breathed new life into the Batman franchise then Rocksteady’s Arkham Knight series is its gaming equivalent.