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After years in meditative hibernation, this once-lost Shogun warrior has reemerged to do battle with old nemeses Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and to take a few arms home with it in the process.
After the ridiculous success of the Crash N. Sane Trilogy, Activision’s accountants (presumably) desperately scoured the archives looking for something else to restore the company to financial glory, and came up with a 20-year old kart racer that almost every PSOne owner swears is better than Mario Kart.
It’s unapologetic and uncivilised, stuffed to the gills with lairy lawlessness in a way that comes across as more needy than necessary, neon graffiti scuffing up every environment, and hot, punky pink squirting across… well, everywhere you look.
Despite the book coming out in 2006 and the Brad Pitt movie in 2013, it’s taken until now for World War Z to make it onto our digital apocalypse.
The zombie apocalypse has been done to death by now, to the point where the entire experience feels quite rote.
To the casual observer, Street Fighter V might seem like the biggest fighting game in the world, with its main-stage tournament finals at EVO and globally-renowned roster of characters.
What happens when you take the creative leads from the beloved but near-forgotten Burnout series, team them up with a tiny handful of talented developers, and give them about a 100th of the budget of any typical modern racing game?
Japan’s FromSoftware has forged a reputation for making tough-as-nails games, mostly thanks to its more recent slew of action RPG titles: Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne. All make star features of their consistently challenging combat, opaque mechanics and deliberately obtuse storytelling.
When you sit down to a play a 2D platformer, the temptation is often to race to the finish line as nimbly and stylishly as possible.
Hot on the slightly broke, misjudged heels of Anthem comes another triple-A loot shooter looking to hoover up your every waking moment.
In a stat that will make you whiter than Dante’s stringy hair, it’s been a massive six years since Ninja Theory’s DMC reboot rocked the angrier corners of the internet with its edgy take on Capcom’s action classic. And despite DMC now being considered a series high point for many,...
It’s not that Anthem is offensively bad, exactly. It’s just that it’s not particularly amazing, either. Electronic Arts’ latest foray into open-world, live gaming sits somewhere astride ‘shoddy’ and ‘spectacular’, a foot stamped firmly in each camp and constantly swaying between the two like a drunk donkey.
