Chris J Capel
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Despite the hit-and-miss history of the franchise, Umbrella Corps is the first time I ever regretted uttering the phrase “sure, I’ll review that Resident Evil game”. It fails as a Resident Evil game so hard Capcom took the name out, and it fails as a multiplayer game so hard it...
Normally when a reviewer says “if you liked the previous game in the series, you’ll like this” it’s a compliment. With The Technomancer, it’s a threat. Spiders has simply made a slightly nicer looking version of Mars: War Logs. This including frustrating combat where Attacks don’t seem to connect and...
Dead Island and Riptide are both fairly fun games that get repetitive through extended play sessions, lack a little personality, and are altogether awful in single-player. They have also been utterly eclipsed by Techland’s own wonderful Dying Light, which took the Dead Island idea and improved on every element. Nevertheless...
Kathy Rain is a delightful little adventure game to add to the massive pile of fun adventure games released in the last couple of months. The puzzles are believable and interesting with some really clever computer hacking ones in there. The story is compelling and entertaining, and the characters are...
While the idea of a Telltale miniseries is a welcome and novel one The Walking Dead: Michonne suffers because there’s already too much Walking Dead in the world, and also the invulnerability of Michonne means you never worry about her the same way you did Lee or Clementine. Nevertheless the...
Banner Saga 2 may be just the next part of Stoic’s ongoing tale but basically everything has been improved. They’ve kept the lovely art, animations and design and continued the wonderful apocalyptic story for a gripping twelve hours filled with twists, turns and probably deaths, with hard choices that can...
Whether you feel you get your money’s worth or not from Fallout 4’s first DLC pack depends on whether you like combing buildings for pots, tin cans and other junk or not. If you do then you get to create an army of stupid looking robots! Hooray! And if you...
In a month full of high-quality adventure games from some of the most respected names in the genre, relatively unknown newcomer Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet could be my favourite of the lot. It’s incredibly funny and charming, with a lovely kid’s cartoon feel to it. The puzzles may not...
Shardlight
In many ways Shardlight is a typical WadjetEye adventure game - low-res graphics, common sense puzzle solutions, wildly imaginative, well written and hugely entertaining. The world is interesting and manages to stand out against the multitudes of post-apocalyptic landscapes in videogames. Amy Wellard is a sympathetic and interesting player character,...
Far Cry Primal has far more in common with previous Far Cry games than it seems on the surface, to both its gain and detriment. The caveman setting is novel and the total absence of guns, vehicles and people shouting in your ear every ten minutes is refreshing. Combat is...
Despite being shorter than most Telltale episodes (I clocked it in about 90 minutes) The Walking Dead: Michonne is off to a great start. To be honest I wasn’t blown away by anything in the story but I’d definitely call In Too Deep “a good episode”. While nothing jaw-dropping happens...
I can’t really recommend Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders to anyone. Fans of the book will appreciate the alternate ending but be disappointed in the cartoony style, the lack of pace or urgency to the investigation, and the atrociously comical voice acting. Adventure game fans on the other hand may...
