Richard Walker
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Batman: Arkham Origins
Like so many superheroes, Batman as a real life crime fighter would be ludicrous. In comic books, movies and games, Batman works when the darkness is turned all the way up to 11 and the drama is dialled right up. And it's amid this inky blackness and relentless peril that...
F1 2013
Where can you possibly go when your game has reached a level where there's little room for improvement? F1 2012 arguably reached that point, with a simulation of the sport that was pretty much right on the money. F1 2013 is something more iterative as a result, building upon the...
Grand Theft Auto V
Cast your mind back all the way to 1997. Grand Theft Auto was some weird little game that whipped up a storm of controversy because you could run people over and gun them down. It looked pretty crude, with its top-down 2D graphics, and almost didn't see the light of...
NHL 14
As sports franchises go, EA Sports' NHL is one that's consistently been delivering strong games for the last few years, keeping its take on ice hockey fresh with each new iteration, where it could otherwise be in danger of turning stale and hard, like a puck. Each and every year,...
Lost Planet 3
Having dabbled in the desert for Lost Planet 2, Capcom has embraced the cold once more for Lost Planet 3, the first game in the series to be outsourced to a western developer. In this case, it's Spark Unlimited, the studio behind Turning Point: Fall of Liberty and Legendary. So...
We miss Michael Ironside. We all miss Michael Ironside. His gruff tones came to define the character of Sam Fisher over the years across five Splinter Cell games, but now he's gone. And after about an hour of playing Splinter Cell: Blacklist, you'll probably have forgotten all about the whole...
Saints Row 2
Has Saints Row gone too far? Many felt that Saints Row: The Third was a step too far already, but Saints Row IV takes your 'step too far' and raises you one giant leap, and then blasts you out of a cannon into the sun. There's no escaping that Saint's...
Deadpool
Manic, unpredictable, insane. That's Deadpool in a nutshell. Both the character and his video game revel in abject silliness, and just like the comic book, anything completely random can happen at any given moment in Deadpool: the game. It's for this very reason that you'll either love Deadpool or hate...
Grid 2
Born from the ashes of Codemasters' old TOCA Race Driver series, the first GRID was a continuation of the story-driven racer in which you play the central role of a burgeoning raw driving talent, wheel-spinning your way from one event to the next. There was something inherently rough and ready...
At one point during Resident Evil: Revelations' soggy seafaring story, Jill Valentine refers to one of the T-Abyss virus-infected Ooze as a zombie. While that's not really technically true, the Ooze possess a number of zombie-like characteristics. They're slow moving, clumsy and if they get close enough, they'll try to...
Marvel fighting games have enjoyed something of a long and storied history over the years thanks to Capcom, while DC's heroes have been by and large underrepresented in the fight genre beyond the likes of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. With NetherRealm successfully bringing Mortal Kombat back into the spotlight...
Cutting or chopping stuff up is normally quite mundane. A real chore. It's so dull that supermarkets sell pre-sliced fruit and vegetables in bags. Slicing up carrots, apples, potatoes or whatever is pretty boring, but Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance makes chopping fun. Like, really really fun. It's so enjoyable in...
