Life is Strange: Before the Storm brings players back to the town of Arcadia Bay, though it isn’t exactly as they remember it. Set three years before the original Life is Strange, the first episode of this prequel series successfully leveraged players’ [...]
The Good:A welcome return to Asposia with the same characters, look, and music as before; puzzles present a good challenge; voice work has seen some improvements. The Bad:A much darker atmosphere saps some of the enjoyable ambiance of the original; a [...]
If you were to adapt Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds into a co-operative first-person shooter, you’d get something along the lines of RAID: World War II. It’s 1941 and the onslaught of Hitler’s forces are advancing fast on England. In their most [...]
Fans of open-world Super Mario games have been waiting for the plumber’s next foray into a sandbox-style world since 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine for the GameCube. After years filled with traditional Mario side-scrollers, we won’t have to wait much longer [...]
Star Wars Battlefront II’s campaign was much requested by fans after the first game lacked any form of single-player. We already knew the sequel’s offline portion would bridge the gap between Episodes VI and VII and would have you play as [...]
Without being signed up to work on a big franchise, or having successfully developed one of its own over the course of 20 toilsome years, it can be tough for a studio to launch a new 3D open world RPG in a landscape dominated by Witchers, Mass Effects, [...]
For all its idiosyncratic brilliance, Hyrule Warriors – the first time that Nintendo loaned its characters and mythology to Koei Tecmo in return for a fidgety battlefield opus (this time dressed in felt green) – was an untidy marriage. On home [...]
I’ve just hooked a cadaver up to an embalming machine, dragging a cannula to the carotid artery and attaching the necessary tubing for fluid drainage. As the machine whirrs I trace patterns with my mouse over the cadaver, mimicking the action of [...]
