Originally titled ‘Formula Fusion’ upon it’s early access release on Steam in 2015, it was rebranded to ‘Pacer’ in early 2019, when it also caught my eye at PLAY Expo in May 2019. A futuristic racer in the same style as Wipeout (some of the R8 Games development team worked on Wipeout 3), Pacer tests […]
When I was a lad (queue whimsical sentimental music) playing couch co-op/competitive videogames was part of daily life. I spent many hours laughing with or cursing at my friends playing classic games such as Speedball 2, Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter 2 or Kick Off 2. I’ve just noticed there are a lot of […]
Following on from my review of Hunting Simulator 2 on PS4 (please read that review for everything about the gameplay) I was very kindly sent a review code for the Nintendo Switch version. One of my main concerns before playing the Switch version was if I’d be able to spot the animals in the wild […]
The Suicide of Rachel Foster is one of those games where the less you know about the story the better, so I will do my best to keep details to a minimum. You play as Nicole Wilson. Her mother has just died and the hotel she grew up in must be checked before it is […]
‘Seers Isle’ is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval Northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters and your ultimate freedom. The game begins with a group of shaman apprentices setting foot on the shores of a sacred island to be initiated to magic. As they […]
‘Along the Edge’ is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character’s personality and appearance. The game begins with our protagonist, Daphné Delatour, inheriting a huge manor house out in the countryside from her grandmother that she never met. It is from here that players can chose our […]
Air Missions: HIND is an action combat flight simulator based on the Russian Mi-24 Hind assault helicopter, also known as the ‘Flying Tank’, and covers fifteen missions based on fictional conflicts across four different environments: Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Arctic Ocean and Southeast Asia. Taking advantage of the tutorial section (a must for anyone playing […]
We’ve been quite lucky with racing games in 2020. First off there was the release of the awesome Hotshot Racing, and now we are treated to the excellent Art of Rally. The big question is, can it take pole position from my favourite top down racer Mantis Burn Racing?The first thing to strike me about […]
The old saying of “time flies as you get older” certainly holds true, as it seems like only a handful of years ago that I was living the life of Thomas “Tommy” Angelo and running errands for Don Salieri in the video game world of Mafia on my PS2.Now, a quite staggering (and frightening!) 16 […]
The fighting genre has been one of the cornerstones of videogames, and remains hugely popular to this day. Even though it was over 30 years ago, I still remember being enthralled by the likes of Way of the Exploding Fist, Yie Ar Kung Fu, and Barbarian. Don’t get me wrong, I loved beat-em ups like […]