PROS Brilliant Fast and Furious-esque storyline Stunning open world Great selection of races and side content CONS Drag questline hits a difficulty curve Overcomplicated AI Bit of a grind When I first showed off Need for Speed Payback to the GamesRadar+ [...]
Remember how it felt to see a Sawtooth for the first time? That thrill, the excited fear, your heart thumping as you hide in the red grass while the machine prowls around. Your controller vibrating softly, then more insistently as its footsteps got [...]
There’s a nostalgic euphoria I associate with the sound of crunching snow. It reminds me of childhood winters wrapped up in scratchy scarves and impractical mittens, trudging through Irish fields, white as the eye could see and making that first [...]
Describing a game as X meets Dark Souls is a sure way to invite mockery and contempt. It’s lazy critical short-hand, people will say, and they’re often correct. Well, prepare to mock. But only a little. I promise I’m not being lazy when I say that Nioh is [...]
The great rage is dead within me. I no longer feel hatred. In the first Hand Of Fate(review), a sly and effective singleplayer collision of roguelite and collectible card game, I fought onwards primarily due to a deep and burning desire to wipe the [...]
Sometimes it’s not clear what a game is trying to do, exactly, or what you were meant to get out of playing it. Sometimes a game just exists, and you finish it feeling neither richer nor poorer for having played. Oure is one such game; it’s [...]
Super Lucky’s Tale acts as a sequel to the original Lucky’s Tale on Oculus Rift, but doesn’t require you to have played that to enjoy it. Lyra and her brother Lucky are out to save the world from the evil cat Jinx and his litter from getting a book that [...]
Fully expecting another ghastly CoD campaign, I’ve been utterly surprised by the shooter I’ve just played. Be shocked – Call Of Duty: WWII is a decent single-player game. And there’s not a loot drop in sight. Here’s wot I think: Call of Duty’s return to [...]
