Reviews

Intro: There’s been something of a trend over the last few years: AAA developers leaving the roost and banding together to do something new, away from the constraints of a huge team and publisher pressure. With titles from other devs such as Fire in the Flood and Dangerous Golf being born under similar circumstances, two things about this current...

Intro: Milkstone Studios made a name for themselves back in the XBLIG scene on the Xbox 360, with their own quirky takes on games which were popular on other platforms. From The Binding of Isaac influenced Sushi Castle to Slender-a-like White Noise, what Milkstone have always lacked in originality, they make up for with some of the...

Intro Tight, birds-eye shooters have a special place in my heart. From the hours of co-op fun that my brother and I put into Super Smash TV on the C64 and Sega Master System, through the hidden gem of PS1 splatter-fest Loaded, and on to my repeated plays of literal poo-fest The Binding of Isaac, it's fair to say I get a lot...

Intro Tight, birds-eye shooters have a special place in my heart. From the hours of co-op fun that my brother and I put into Super Smash TV on the C64 and Sega Master System, through the hidden gem of PS1 splatter-fest Loaded, and on to my repeated plays of literal poo-fest The Binding of Isaac, it's fair to say I get a lot...

Intro: Portal was a ground breaking game when Valve released it back in 2007, tucked away in the tail-end of The Orange Box compilation. It practically invented the modern first person puzzle game, notably by making something other than killing the focus of the first person gameplay. Since then, many pretenders...

Intro: Back in the days when analogue controllers were first becoming widely available for consoles, primarily with the advent of the Dual Shock pad for the PS1, I remember thinking precise controls for top down games would work really well. Surprisingly, over the years, not...

Last month, I decided to spend all of my time playing games on the Xbox 360. In the process, I decided to finally play this game. Yaris. I got this game for free almost 15 years ago from the Xbox 360 marketplace, and for some reason, I never finished it or even started it, and I typically play all the games that I could pick...

If you played the first game, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Released in 2010) then you know what is in store for you with this second title from Square Enix & Crystal Dynamics. Four years after the first game was released they now have a sequel called Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. Game play is very similar to the first game with a top down view of the...

Duke Nukem is an iconic character with that flattop hairdo and his one line quips. This iteration of the character was originally released as a PC game that was then ported over as a Xbox 360 arcade game in 2010. The setting is on the island of Manhattan and a mad scientist named Morphix has his mind set on taking over New York City. The game is classified as...

Microsoft Minesweeper is pretty impressive given the basic nature of the game. Of course, if you never liked Minesweeper in the first place then nothing here will change that, but while you can’t polish a turd, you can roll it in lots and lots of pretty glitter. There’s not too much what else to say about Microsoft...

Microsoft Jigsaw as it's actually fantastic and also It works great. Never did I think that a game of solving puzzles would be so much fun. Basically we have traditional play which allows you to pick a difficulty and then of course solve it. No time limits or restraints for you and there's even a little box on the side for you to put pieces away...

Endless World is a game where you turn on autoplay and just wait a few minutes to fuse items, upgrade hero stats and occasionally collect quest rewards. The only real gameplay is clicking tiles and decorations in the environment for coins. That said i had fun for a few hours and it should not take very long to get all achievements without needing to buy microtransactions. ...

Intro Decay is a game which first launched a number of years ago on the Xbox 360, under the XBLIG marketplace - the equivalent of the Creators Collection on Xbox One. It was released in four parts for $3 each, with the first being $1, and was something of a diamond in the rough at the time, due to its...

Great concept, high production value, but ultimately just not that much fun. The story is interesting and conceptually I love the idea of reuniting the USA and players helping each other. Unfortunately, the actual gameplay loop is very tedious and frustrating. Hideo Kojima games are excellent at giving the player autonomy. He provides the tools to let the player...

Intro Welcome to a world where death is a way of life. A world where mega corporations, run by the greedy self-serving Glukkons, strip the land of it’s resources in the name of profit. A world where huge factories dominate the skyline, pumping black smoke into the air as the enslaved ’employees’ –...

Intro …Wow; what an experience. The last few hours of Lifeless Planet left me breathless – frightened, intrepid and isolated in a truly foreign environment, manipulating alien machinery with no idea of what the outcome would be. Pushing on and on and on towards an unknown goal, the...

Intro Milestone were just starting to hit their stride in the World Rally Championship series, when Big Ben Interactive took on the (at the time) significantly less talented developer Kylotonn and handed the reins to them. Not one to rest on their laurels, Milestone set to town working on Sebastian Loeb Rally...

Intro For some people, choosing to play a game about farming would be akin to the rest of us playing a game about sitting bored witless in an office cubicle for eight hours a day. For those of us who aren’t blessed with the kind of job satisfaction you can only get by breaking your back 24/7 and giving most of your profits to Tesco, we have digital...

Intro Super Mutant Alien Assault sounds like a 65 pence XBLIG which nobody notices. A title like that brings to mind the kind of game which would pass so low under the radar, Lockheed Martin would be snaffling away the technology for a new generation of stealth aircraft. It sounds crap. But it isn't. Review After selecting a...

Oh wow. What a horrible experience! First, the good stuff: Props for getting a Unity 3D game to run smoothly at all times. Also, chapter 1 - with it's 1000gs - is free. No ads - free. Now, the rest: A torturous "adventure" game which sees you playing a young would-be pirate child, running around a beach covered in Unity stock asset...

Intro Oh my good lord. Review This is the third game in a 'trilogy' of pinball tables created by Shine Research. Somehow, against all odds, the developer has managed to take it's buggy, barely working, bland, amateur and excruciatingly painful template and make it even worse than their previous 1/10 efforts. Let's forget for a moment that these pinball tables are...

Intro On a Roll 3D is the latest re-release of a simple yet entertaining platformer, which first appeared back on the Xbox Live Indie Games service on the Xbox 360. Finding a genuinely good game was like searching for a needle in a haystack back on XBLIG, and for every Total Miner or Gateways, there was a dozen 'massage' apps or avatar...

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.