Chris Capel
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The best word to describe Escape Dead Island is “cheap”. Certainly not cheap to buy, as I see it’s £34.99/$39.99 on Steam, but certainly cheaply and quickly made. The island of Narapela is quite small and painfully linear but the gameplay time is padded out by Fatshark forcing you to...
Seriously DC fans, buy LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. It’s pure DC fan-service in game form. Yes it’s the same old LEGO gameplay and mechanics first pioneered in 2005, but it’s still very addictive. It’s all a lot of fun and never failed to put a smile on my face....
Randal’s Monday gets so much right it’s depressing that it gets the crucial gameplay part wrong. The voice acting, story, dialogue, graphics, music, humour, modern adventure game mechanics, that’s all impressive and lovely. Then a couple of hours in it’s like Nexus Game Studios lost their book titled “How To...
All Costume Quest needed was a more interesting battle system, better quests and a longer more involving story to be a great game. Costume Quest 2 has better quests and a more interesting story, and a better designed world. It’s still got the excellent writing, sound, and music that’ll keep...
Now The Evil Within is a good game, even if it feels a little old-fashioned with its claustrophobic over-the-shoulder camera that artificially makes it difficult for you to see enemies. It remains endlessly surprising and inventive from beginning until end, it rewards exploration, and apart from some moments of frustration...
Alien: Isolation
All these are just minor things however, and while they did drag the score down from the hallowed 9s they don’t stop Alien Isolation from being a superb game and quite possibly the best Alien game ever (although Monolith’s Aliens Vs Predator 2 comes close). At the very least SEGA...
Nevertheless I really enjoyed the 3-4 hours I spent investigating The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and recommend you check it out, although admittedly your own enjoyment will be tied to whether you find and solve all the puzzles first time around. The story is great and well told, the atmosphere...
Gauntlet
Placing an explosive barrel next to a suspicious wall and blowing a hole in it, only to sweep in and steal all the gold before the other players can get it!
Flockers
Overall though I really enjoyed Flockers. The levels may get a little samey in look but are well designed and really tax the brain muscles, the challenge is just right and ramps up perfectly, the cuteness of the sheep is inarguable and the Steam Workshop support is just icing on...
Shadowgate
If all the Shadowgate Kickstarter’s 3,468 backers just want a better-looking version of the 1987 game with nice audio and rejigged puzzles then I’m sure they’ll all be happy because it’s exactly that. Unfortunately having an interface cluttered with Verb Icons combined with such unintuitive nonsense as having to use...
Risen 3: Titan Lords
Despite still having a few issues Risen 3: Titan Lords is a vast improvement on Risen 2. The combat could be better but doesn’t cripple the game this time, the world is more interesting and easier to get around, and there’s tons of stuff to do. The story’s a bit...
Sacred 3
While we’re certainly not starving for Action RPGs these days Sacred 3 does manage to stand out. A poorly-told story with odious voice-acting, crushing linearity, a total lack of customization right down to clothing and levelling upgrades, and an absolute distain for single-player gamers are its biggest faults. None of...
