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This the first game from Three Fields Entertainment, a 12 man UK based code-shop founded by Criterion alumni in 2014. Yes, Criterion of the Burnout series & Black fame. What we have here is a twist on golfing games where the aim is still to get your ball in the hole, only you have to smash the hell out of items in various locations spread across France,...

(originally posted by me on TA) Before I start, let me say: I absolutely love Rez. I love it to the point where I have the music on my iThing, own the game on Dreamcast, PS2 & XBLA and once got into a pointless bidding war for a t-shirt on eBay just because it had the Rez logo on it. I may not have bothered to max it on XBLA, but that had more to do with...

(Originally posted by me on TA) After a flurry of other Lego games ranging from good (Indy & sequel), average (Harry Potter) & downright awful (Batman), Traveller’s Tales have brought us the next instalment in the Lego Star Wars series after a four year gap since 2007’s Complete Saga. I bought the first Indy, maxed it in a week, then traded it in...

(originally posted by me on TA) Those of you familiar with the first Kinect Sports game will know what to expect from Season 2. That being a seemingly disparate collection of sports that seem to be randomly picked but are in fact well chosen simulacra of the pursuits in question. Replacing football, bowling, beach volleyball and the other three sports are American football,...

(originally submitted by me on TA) This being a port of Denki's well-regarded iOS puzzler, you'd expect it to be lightweight fluff. Definitely not the case in the prolific Scottish developer's XBLA debut. Your 400 Microsoft points gets you a game you'll return to again and again. Best described as a mix between Scrabble & Risk, given it uses the former's official...

(originally posted by me on TA) Let me just say, I quite enjoyed last year's film and while I'm broadly familiar with Marvel's plethora of characters, I'm here for the achievements as I'm sure you are. Although if you're not, you're on the wrong site. On the face of it, Captain America: Super Soldier is just another movie licence. You'd be right in assuming that...

(originally written by me on TA) Released to little or no fanfare in January 2011, this game probably passed you by. Critically panned with a Metacritic rating of 43 it soon fell into the bargain basement section. I grabbed it for £5 ($8) in July purely to boost my beandive stats so didn't expect much anyway. The signs aren't good when you start the game up....

(originally posted by me on TA) Midway Arcade Origins is a funny title. It follows the vogue for retro compilations such as SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection and Namco Museum Collection, but rather than being strictly Midway, there's some Atari stuff in there too. The TA ratio of 1.46 belies the challenge contained therein. Each of the 31 individual games on the...

On the face of it, this isn’t even a game as you (eventually) reach it via the Apps tab/blade/dashboard horror. But it has 400Gs attached and you can whore it for great justice, so it’s a game of sorts. It’s a freemium effort in the same vein as Happy Wars or that new Spartacus thing. Unlike those two, it doesn’t involve any online shenanigans but it does have a...

(originally posted by me on TA) Charlie Murder is the latest XBLA release from Ska Studios, the same people that brought us the Dishwasher games. I never played those so had no prior expectations as to what to expect from this. In fact Microsoft’s imminent change to local currency instead of MSP and the crappy exchange rates they’re giving us, meant that I played this...

(originally posted by me on TA) Chariot is the latest freebie courtesy of Games With Gold on Xbox One (unless you're reading this after the event and had to pay for it). It's a puzzle platformer that brings to mind Spelunky in terms of the exploration aspect and Terraria with regards the terrain you drag/push your titular chariot through. If you lose sight of your...

(originally posted by me on TA) It would be far too easy to dismiss Blur as Wipeout Kart except with real cars in real world locations. Indeed on the basis of the multiplayer beta many will have written it off and maybe bought Split/Second around the same time instead. This was the first racing game from the sadly departed premier British developer since the Microsoft deal...