Scott Watson reviews Grip: Combat Racing… The combat racing genre spans a wide range of games; from eternal favourite Mario Kart, to classics like Twisted Metal, Road Rash, Burnout and the fondly remembered (to me anyway) Rollcage from Psygnosis during the heady days of the original PlayStation. Developer Caged Element are hoping to keep the home […]
Video Game Review – Strange Brigade
Scott Watson reviews Strange Brigade… Ah, Strange Brigade, I’ve been waiting for you to arrive for what seems like an eternity! Now you’re here, you’re pretty much everything I hoped and dreamed you would become having played you at EGX last September. Wonderfully over the top storyline, gloriously gorgeous to look at, some of the […]
Video Game Review – Defiance 2050
Scott Watson reviews Defiance 2050… I remember watching and thoroughly enjoying the first season of Defiance when the SyFy Channel first introduced us to this newly terra-formed future Earth and its mix of humans and alien refugees thrown together into a melting pot of cultures, races and conflict. Released at the same time and aiming […]
Video Game Review – Bomb Chicken
Scott Watson reviews Bomb Chicken… You know, one of the things I love most about games like Nitrome’s Bomb Chicken is the way the developers spin a fantastic yarn to fit the game, the character, the premise, the setting and more. After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range […]
Video Game Review – Raging Justice
Scott Watson reviews Raging Justice…. Good timing or just sheer coincidence? Just as a throwback to arcade classic Streets of Rage appears on Games with Gold on the Xbox this month, Team17 and development team Makin Games bring us their homage to the once great bastion of gaming, the 2D side-scrolling beat ’em up, with […]
Video Game Review – Battlezone Gold Edition
Scott Watson reviews Battlezone Gold Edition… Talk about making you feel old… doing a bit of research and back history into Battlezone, and Rebellion’s repackaging and Gold Edition release, has made me feel positively archaic! I remember summer holidays to Scarborough, Bridlington, and the North East coast of England in my youth, chucking ten pence […]
Video Game Review – Bombslinger
Scott Watson reviews Bombslinger… When Super Bomberman R failed to set the world alight on its Switch release, we were all left wondering if we would ever see the likes of its multiplayer mayhem again. To Mode 4’s credit, they’ve given it a damn good try with Bombslinger. A game that delights and frustrates in […]
Video Game Review – Urban Trial Playground
Scott Watson reviews Urban Trial Playground on Nintendo Switch… They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and with Urban Trial Playground, Tate Multimedia nods heavily towards Red Lynx’ Trials series in so many ways it’s a surprise they’ve not called for their IP back! If you’ve played Trials, or any of Tate Multimedia’s […]
Video Game Review – Shadow of the Colossus
Scott Watson reviews Shadow of the Colossus… It’s been over 12 years since Fumito Ueda first brought his masterpiece to life on the PS2. That’s a long time in gaming, and with it nostalgia can at times be a cruel mistress. Thankfully, and in no small part once again to the talented team at Bluepoint […]
Video Game Review – Nightmare Boy
Scott Watson reviews Nightmare Boy… Take a strong pinch of Terry Gilliam’s unique storytelling, a healthy does of Guillermo del Toro’s at times extraordinary fantasia, and chuck it in the mixing pot with a metroidvania style old-school influenced 2D scroller come platformer and you may think you’re on to a winner with Nightmare Boy on […]