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Guardians of the Galaxy was the shot in the arm that the Marvel Cinematic Universe needed, opening the door to very different kinds of heroes in very different environments, all infused with loads of attitude.
When the suits that run major game publishers decide not to continue beloved franchises, what are ardent creators supposed to do? Quit and make a Kickstarter campaign, of course.
How do you follow what was arguably one of the finest gaming trilogies of the last decade? The answer, if you’re BioWare, appears to be “to do more of the same – only bigger”.
I really, really wanted FlatOut 4 to be good. So many modern racing games take themselves too seriously, and Total Insanity offers the promise of a destructive something different.
Most motorsport fans might think that they want to be a racing driver. Screaming at the TV on a Sunday afternoon, though, what they actually want is to be a team boss.
Add a few banana skins into go-karting, or give an Italian plumber insane jumping skills and you’ve got an instant classic. This wacky imagination is the source of Nintendo’s irresistible charm – a charm that’s just as potent today as it was 30 years ago.
Like so many Ubisoft games, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a mixture of lots of ideas – some brilliant, some not so much.
Those little, plastic, clip-together robo-dinosaur things from the ‘80s that you’d wind-up and send marching across a table at whatever other toys you had knocking around at the time?
Maybe it’s how the camera pans around your bullet, Matrix-style, as it flies through the air to your target? The way your victim stays blissfully unaware that a lump of hot metal is flying towards them, faster than the speed of sound, until it’s too late?
After an absurd overload of information and a, frankly, too-short tutorial, nobody could be angry at you for not delving deeper – but, if you decide to stick with it, For Honor has depth and some good ideas and unique gameplay beneath the surface.
No one expected much from Halo Wars eight years ago, but it was actually pretty great. And you can kind of say the same for Halo Wars 2.
After watching too many reality TV shows or brainless blockbusters, you’ll occasionally get an itch that only a puzzle can satisfy.
