American Fugitive

American Fugitive is a strange beast. From the very first time I laid eyes on the game, I knew I liked it. In my preview of the game, I labelled it as "a game I never knew I wanted" and that's slightly off, I like my open-world crime fests, particularly so when the world has a good amount of content. Fallen Tree Games have made sure that American Fugitive has this, aiming very high for the first premium title of such a small studio. I can't fault ambition, but it always leaves the question as to if this ambition has been met.

While it initially looks like a simple top-down arcade game, American Fugitive hides a lot under the hood.

American Fugitive is good in spots. And those spots are fun. But on the whole, the game just barely keeps up with its own scope of ambition.

American Fugitive is a love letter to the original Grand Theft Auto games. Can this throwback steal our hearts? Find out here.

Grand Theft Auto III was one of the PlayStation 2’s most important early releases -- fully realising the potential of its genre with an interactive 3D open world that took the world by storm upon its launch in late 2001. It was a landmark moment for video games, but it also represented a shift in design away from the top-down perspective. And nearly 20 years later, it’s those earlier titles that developer Fallen Tree Games is trying to replicate with American Fugitive. The attempt isn’t quite as successful as those Rockstar classics, but this blast from the past is sure to provide a decent exp...

A likeable, car chase-riddled sandbox crime spree that updates the original pre-3D Grand Theft Auto games into a more modern play experience.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “The original Grand Theft Auto games were great, but what would make them better is modern graphics and destructible environments.” That’s all the introduction one needs for American Fugitive, the 3D top-down sandbox game from developer Fallen Tree Games that’s all about wreaking havoc on a rural American town, and not about much else.

American Fugitive should stay on the lamb for a while longer.