Dom Peppiatt
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Stressful, but in a good way, Doom The Dark Ages thunders along a well-trodden path but fails to break any new ground.
A fascinating mix of nostalgia, experimentation, innovation, and commitment to a vision, Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is a painterly stroke of genius.
A loyal and heartfelt remaster, but no matter how much Square Enix polishes Final Fantasy XII, the company is never going to wear down those occasional bumps that affected the overall package the first time. New RPG systems, rebalanced enemies, UI updates and speed options all boil down to a much smoother, nicer (prettier!) version of the game than the original European release. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is a wonderfully nostalgic, but undeniably flawed, return to Ivalice.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that World Of Final Fantasy is trading on fan service alone: at first glimpse, the game seems to be little more than references to past games, using moves and creature designs inspired by a series that’s been going as long as home consoles have existed. Thing is, in a world where we’re getting endless Final Fantasy content chucked out by publisher Square Enix, World Of Final Fantasy Maxima (a new version of the 2016 PS4 release with added features) is actu...
The problem with making a game that’s inspired heavily by the golden age of 3D puzzle platformers is that those games were inherently a bit shoddy: they were plagued with camera issues, they were riddled with bugs, they were fun but - let’s be honest - often a bit clumsy. Yooka-Laylee has taken its inspiration to heart in every way, from the cartoon cast of characters and its lo-fi art direction to the clunky, awkward controls and the dodgy camera.
There’s this idiom that gets bandied around between gamers that ‘RTS doesn’t work on console’. The original Halo Wars dispelled that to some degree, and Halo Wars 2 outright proves it wrong. From the second you pick the pad up, you know how it all works - the navigation, the UI, the command you have over your troops… it’s all natural, it all works. It all makes sense. Halo Wars 2 takes the foundations the 2009 game established and builds on them, course correcting along the way, a...
Final Fantasy XV feels like a proper Final Fantasy game - that’s the most important thing you want to hear, right? The title has been the subject of a hellish development cycle, and has seen trends in Japanese games and RPGs change fundamentally in the time it’s been in utero, but the result is a game that lives up to a series that’s been instrumental in shaping what the modern RPG is.
I hated the first Watch Dogs game - I found it derivative, soulless and boring. Every character was loathsome, the writing felt designed by committee and even the hacking side of things was pretty dull, really. Not a good start for a game about hacktivism, right? Luckily Watch Dogs 2 corrects all of those faults, and does it with a wry smile and a cheeky wink. Ubisoft’s newest effort is a self-aware romp through hacker life, pitching you (Marcus Holloway) and your DedSec pals against every ...
Respawn’s rich history in the first-person shooter genre certainly isn’t lost in Titanfall 2. The development team cites Half-Life as a major influence and told us at a review event that they’d hoped to emulate a lot of Valve’s seminal shooter in their own game. While that’s always going to be a lofty goal, it feels like Respawn has aimed as high as possible, and even if the team didn’t quite achieve the ground-breaking success of Half-Life, they certainly made a campaign worth pl...
