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Apparently writing the word ‘cute’ one thousand times doesn’t count as a review, which is a shame, given just how adorable the protagonist of Unravel is.
The first thing you should know about Firewatch is that it’s every bit as beautiful as you imagined. First-time developer Campo Santo has spent two years teasing us with screenshots of a lustrous, tangerine-soaked wilderness to explore, and it’s certainly come good on this promise.
You might already have clashed wits with him over his ground-breaking 2008 platform-puzzler Braid for the Xbox 360. Maybe you even completed it, along with all the secret puzzles. Think this makes you an expert puzzle solver? A dab hand with a controller?
It’s not easy keeping track of Tom Clancy’s gritty techno-war games. Rainbow Six: Siege is the 10th main game in the franchise best summarised as ‘the hardcore tactical one where you spend as much time in menus as you do shooting people’.
“Here he is! Professional badass!” one of my revolutionary cohorts cheers as I swagger up to the military base.
So bad news. Earth has been destroyed by aliens, the spaceship that made it out of harm’s way has crash-landed on a distant planet and it’s your job to sort out this mess. What a bummer, right?
So bad news. Earth has been destroyed by aliens, the spaceship that made it out of harm’s way has crash-landed on a distant planet and it’s your job to sort out this mess. What a bummer, right?
Sometimes we gamers are an awfully cheap date. Slap a couple of Ewoks and a jetpack in a pre-rendered trailer and our hearts are all aflutter.
A couple of years ago I swore off StarCraft II’s competitive multiplayer, convinced that I would never return.
Back in 1989 Cher promised that if she could turn back time she’d take back all the words that hurt us and make us stay. Fast forward to 2015, and it’s clear EA is thinking the same thing about its long-running racing series, Need For Speed.
Yes, you read that right, the last time I hopped into the shoes of Master Chief was in Halo: Combat Evolved approximately fourteen years ago. Halo’s sluggish handling and flavourless sci-fi simply wasn’t my cup of tea.
There are two kinds of reunion tours: The Stone Roses Approach, where a band triumphantly returns to the stage amid huge nostalgic expectation and plays only old songs, and The Blur Approach, where the nostalgia is augmented by a whole load of new stuff.
