Gears of War 4 Developer: The Coalition Publisher: Microsoft Studios Xbox One, PC Although Gears of War: Ultimate Edition came out on PC and Xbox One last year, Gears of War 4 is the first brand new Gears game to appear on the latest console. Some would argue that Gears of War helped to redefine […]
Battlefield 1 Developer: EA DICE Publisher: Electronic Arts PS4, Xbox One, PC World War 1 isn’t a conflict that tends to feature heavily in modern gaming. World War 2 on the other hand has had loads of games and maybe the reason for this is because the definition of “good vs evil” was more clearly […]
The Division Developer: Ubisoft Massive Publisher: Ubisoft PS4, Xbox One, PC Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, (or MMORPG for short) have never been a genre of gaming that I’ve been interested in. In MMORPG’s players enter a shared world carrying out tasks and completing quests, whilst picking up loot along the way to improve […]
Super Smash TV Released: 1992 Platform: Sega Megadrive Publisher: Acclaim Developer: Probe Software Want to win amazing prizes such as a brand new toaster or shiny new VCR? If the answer is yes then all you have to do is enter a deadly arena riddled with explosive mines, hundreds of baseball bat wielding maniacs, tanks, […]
Body Harvest Released: 1998 Platform: Nintendo 64 Publisher: Gremlin Interactive Developer: DMA Design For my second Halloween themed review I wanted to revisit a game that I played a lot when it was originally released. Although Body Harvest isn’t a traditional horror game, it does share a lot in common with 50’s B-movie science fiction, […]
I’ve been a huge American Football fan since 1982 when I first caught a game on television over here in the UK. That very same year Addictive Games released Kevin Toms Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum. This game consumed many hours of my life, but with my love of the NFL slowly overtaking any interest I […]
Splatterhouse Released: 1988 Platform: Arcade Publisher: Namco Developer: Namco Seeing as the Halloween season is nearly upon us, I wanted to write some reviews based on horror games. First up is Splatterhouse which is a lovely gore fest that takes inspiration from The Evil Dead and Friday the 13th. Not much is explained in the intro […]
I grew up reading Fighting Fantasy books and they are an incredibly important part of my childhood. I can still remember the first time I saw the cover of Freeway Fighter and I instantly fell in love with it. I was sold on the cover of the book alone, but when I discovered that you […]
Superman 64 Released: 1999 Platform: Nintendo 64 Publisher: Titus Software Developer: Titus Software From my point of view Superman doesn’t translate into a very good video game character. Let’s face it, he is practically indestructible so it’s hard to imagine enemies hurting him. To my knowledge there haven’t been any decent Superman games and in fact the […]
It has now been a few months since Out of the Park Baseball 17 was released and l have been holding back on publishing my review of it. Like a fine wine it gets better with age, thanks to the in-depth gameplay that keeps bringing up new surprises the more you play it and the constant support […]