Sirens roar ominously within the mangled remains of a Rebel frigate, warning all to escape. The clanking of hurried footsteps echoes through the halls before being replaced by a series of ghastly screams, loud enough to drown out the alarm. A door slides [...]
TT Games has released a slew of Lego games over the past dozen or so years, but Lego Marvel Super Heroes was easily my favorite. It had a massive roster of powerful heroes and an equally sizable hub world for them to explore. The sequel builds upon that [...]
The Good:Puzzles are often fun, especially the collaborative ones; eclectic universe and characters; nicely-drawn cartoon graphics. The Bad:Slight story and characterisation; proper timing a nuisance on occasion; a fair few rough edges. Space, the final [...]
The police procedural is a wildly popular literary, television, and film genre, but relatively few game developers have successfully captured the thrill of cracking a case. Of the few interactive experiences that have tried to match the intrigue of [...]
It wasn’t that surprising when Injustice 2 initially skipped a PC release. Developer NetherRealm Studios’ last PC effort was Mortal Kombat X, a game with an utterly disastrous PC port at launch. Skipping the PC made some kind of sense, even if [...]
Battle Chef Brigade is not for the careful, by-the-book type of cook. It is for the kitchen-curious, the creatively inclined, the culinary improvisers who look at a pan of sizzling meat or veggies and say “I wonder what this would taste like if I [...]
This week’s Premature Evaluation sees Fraser exploring rusty spaceships and beating up robots for cash in sci-fi tactics RPG Deep Sky Derelicts. My first crew, The Fun Time Club, got deep inside an ancient space wreck without too much trouble, but [...]
I am in two minds about Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. It is a phenomenally dense and ridiculous playground of Traveller’s Tales at their finest. And it’s a buggy, opaque and disjointed mess of haphazard controls and direction. And I’ve no idea which one is [...]
