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A tale of two games, Frozen Synapse 2 is best when you’re battling it out like you did in the original. Thankfully, that’s a large portion of what you’re doing in this game.
There are some flaws, but Shadow of the Tomb Raider is never less than a thrilling adventure, which is exactly what it needs to be. Yes the storyline never makes sense and the big world-ending threat never feels truly threatening, but at least Lara’s character gets examined, and the game’s...
Unless Blizzard has some real story shake-ups and a phenomenally tuned raid on the horizon, I’m honestly expecting the sharpest player decrease to set in within the next few months. The expansion itself has some interesting ideas, but sticking to a World Quest grindfest is quickly becoming the norm, and...
Strange Brigade is tip-top fun with lots of bang for your buck, to use a dirty Americanism. A single offline campaign playthrough with a decent amount of exploration can run around 11 hours, and that’s before you bring in the Co-op, Horde Mode, Score Attack, and secret hunting. Crucially, it’s...
Shenmue is incredible- All open world games should be this good. Players hoping for a little more action and less Forklift Operating should check out the Yakuza series.
We honestly feel patches are going to make Phantom Doctrine a lot more playable, but as it stands right now the combat is downright broken. Whereas XCOM’s combat could be frustrating but was generally entertaining, Phantom Doctrine is always frustrating and never fun, and it quickly sucked any love we...
Capcom perfected the combat formula over countless releases, but it wasn’t until Monster Hunter: World that they stripped away what ultimately was never much fun to begin with. You spend less time spent preparing, and more time actually fighting. And sales figures suggest, as we all expected, that Capcom really...
A very promising concept let down by an unengaging execution.
If The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit cost a bit of money, we’d still highly recommend it. The fact that it’s totally free means it’s elevated to a must-play, even if you have no plans on playing Life Is Strange 2 - and if you’re considering it, play this now....
There are a lot of people who will get a kick out of Prey: Mooncrash, and we respect this - and we realise and like that it’s a different type of challenge to the main game. However, we loved Prey and Mooncrash just left us cold.
Jurassic World: Evolution may not have all the options most management gamers would expect, but it makes up for it with the best dinosaurs of any game. It’s missing quite a lot of features that have been standard in sim games since Theme Park, such as staff and guest interaction...
Vampyr
Vampyr is an action RPG which probably would’ve done better if the ‘action’ part was left out. The story is fun, the characters all feel like real people, and the decisions on which innocent to devour are perfectly weighty. Unfortunately the player doesn’t have enough say in where that story...
