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Intro Waking in a storm in the middle of an ocean with no memory of how he got there, is The Man. Frantically he scours the horizon, bewildered he searches his mind; both are a sea of confusion. Then he sees the light. It pierces the blackness from an opening in the base of a colossal tower, right there where he's stranded, beckoning him inside....

This is practically the same game. Updated rosters (aside from oops we forgot Russell Wilson doesn't play for the Seahawks) are one thing but I didn't notice much of a difference in terms of overall presentation and gameplay. Franchise mode is worth a try, Ultimate Team seems like a cash grab, and other modes didn't seem to improve from years past. You can skip...

This is a Beta Version of Microsoft Flight It is like the full game but with fewer features. The game does not have achievements.

Intro I deftly slip down the side of the garage and make my way towards the back door, evading the two cameras sweeping the front lawn. My mark tonight is a large, detached house on the outskirts of Twin Lakes, the overt security presence behaving as anything but a deterrent. Confident of a good haul, it will make...

Today I'm reviewing Tetsumo Party. Let's get a big end-of-review spoiler out of the way, before I go in depth with a professional, fair and unbiased analysis of this recent Xbox One release: I fucking hated every second I spent playing this hollow ugly shell of a game, which I am ashamed to have paid money for. With that out of the way, I'll explain my time...

Intro The black roller blind soaks up most of the sun's rays as I tug it down from it's furled position above the cab. Opening my drivers side window, the sounds of everyday rural life drown out the chatting passengers, a welcome break from their shared shock over revelations in the latest soap opera cliffhanger. I indicate left, check my mirror and wait for...

For less than a fiver you get a 2d platformer and both expansion dungeons, disguised as a forgotten retro game. It is retro in style, but contrary to the comedic 'history' displayed on the title menu, the earliest release was on the Switch last year. As the titular Ms Temple, make your way through flick screen rooms collecting coins and gems in order...

Well of course this isn't the ultimate in 2D racing. If it was, it wouldn't need to claim as such in the title, which is the kind of name you come up with when you've just completed your first video game and you think you're the next Cliffy B. As a top down racer which lets you drive everything from forklifts to Formula 1 - sorry, A - cars, It's...

Note: This game has one unobtainable achievement! Valhalla Hills describes itself as a 'classic build up game', in the style of The Settlers. The premise is simple enough: You have an ever expanding Viking civilisation, made of individually named vikings trying to earn enough honour to enter Valhalla, the hall of slain warriors, and live there under the...

For those of you of a certain age, I know what you're thinking: Virtua Racer for a new generation! Just like the Mega CD promised all those years ago, it's the arcade in your bedroom! Virtua Racer was good, but it was always overshadowed by Daytona USA in my book. It looked better, played better, and was...

For the first few hours of open world, top-down RPG 9th Dawn III, I was bouncing along, clubbing rats, opening chests, pulling levers and proving my bravery to the citizens of the few towns above ground. I was having fun, albeit in a simplistic way, and the game felt a little more like previous hack n slash release Throne...

Call of the Sea is a first person adventure puzzle hybrid, in the style of Myst, Obduction, Schizm etc. It's played at a slow pace as you explore a diverse and beautiful island 74 miles off the coast of Tahiti in Polynesia. You explore this island as Norah Everhart, a 1930s American who has come here searching for...

Pros: It's a fiver you didn't spend at McDonald's. You're not dead. Cons: It's a fiver you could have spent on moist toilet tissue. It's only "chapter 1". Plot Dad disappears one night following dinner, after telling family "I discovered something amazing that's going to change the world, a few years back". He was a rocket scientist /...

Introduction "Innocence is alive" the intro sings to me, in Japanese, whilst filling the screen with busty Waifus. I'm sure it is, but certainly not here - the introduction sequence can't even mention the land is suffering from an epic plague you have to investigate without showing a girl too-tightly wrapped in not enough bandages. I don't think...

Eastasiasoft have been knocking it out of the park recently with their publication choices. Trigger Witch was an unexpected surprise, and now this. Let me get this out the way upfront: Blitz Breaker is the best high-speed die-and-try-again platformer you can buy at this price point. A platformer at heart, Blitz Breaker is a little different from...

Intro Your helmet drowns out the sounds of the crowd and the engines of the other riders as the lights begin their countdown. You squeeze the clutch and rotate the throttle just enough to keep the revs in the sweet spot - the razor's edge between a slow start and a cloud of wheel spin. It's go time! Tearing up the tarmac, you lean forward into the bike, pushing the...

Unlike most of the "Easy Gamer Score" publishers - Sometimes You, Ratalaika, Chillidog and especially Xitilon, for example - Eastasiasoft can often be found putting out actual decent games which require more than five minutes of your time. It's with great pleasure, then, that I say Trigger Witch comfortably fits into that...

Intro "Five..." Even through the in ear monitor, your co-driver's voice is muffled by the bullets of water being fired against the windscreen of your four wheel drive hatchback. "Four..." The handbrake vibrates, as if a poisonous adder ready to strike being held at bay by your steely grip. "Three..." You tease the throttle with your right foot, the roar of the...

"I don't care", is the AI's response as I wake from the final dream in Lucid Cycle. You and me both, I thought as I unlocked the game's final achievement after an hour and a quarter of 'playing'. Lucid Cycle appears to be the culmination of one man's journey to license Unreal Engine and a load of asset packs and ultimately not know what to do with them....

From the mind behind the utterly abysmal Lucid Cycle comes the latest Xbox Walking Simulator - a game with so little interaction, you can play the whole thing with just the right thumbstick. Let's keep it short, shall we? Once more, the man who owns more Unreal Engine assets than ideas stitches them together into a corridor of rural locations which have...

Some games revel in their artistry, perfectly enveloped in an aesthetic that becomes inseparable from the gameplay itself; intrinsic, even, to its success. Limbo revitalised the indie 2D platformer and is beloved by many, including me, for its monochromatic misadventures of a boy both chasing and fleeing death. It has to be said however, that without the...

Big Buck Hunter is a mobile port where you click the screen in an attempt to snipe deers. The gameplay is quite repetitive and i think it would be better if this game was free with ads or something like that. If you like sniper hunting games then you can have fun for some hours.

Kinectimals Unleashed seems more like an experiment of how long humans will perform the same tasks in a row while getting carpel tunnel than a game.

This is literally the worst game i have played in my entire life, i cannot find a single to enjoy about this game. Cons: TERRIBLE CONTROLS TERRIBLE GRAPHICS TERRIBLE BUGS TERRIBLE UNFUN BOSSES TERRIBLE CREDITS SCREEN TERRIBLE MENU NAVIGATION TERRIBLE GAMEPLAY

It has been over ten years since I played and completed the first Crackdown game. Starting Crackdown 2 has been a long time coming and it was worth the wait to start collecting orbs again. Ironically the plot of the game takes place ten years after the city was freed of crime with the elimination of the gang Kingpins. In present Pacific City a terrorist organization lead...