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 – WipEout Omega Collection
Scott Watson reviews WipEout Omega Collection… The WipEout series was a style of racing game that passed me by back in the early days of Playstation. I can’t believe it’s been over 20 years since the original first graced the Sony consoles and was a major seller. I couldn’t get to grips with its speed and […]
Video Game Review – Victor Vran Overkill Edition
Scott Watson reviews Victor Vran Overkill Edition… It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Then again, there’s the flipside too that familiarity breeds contempt. Victor Vran, by Haemimont Games (of Tropico fame), straddles that ever so thin line between both splendidly. An action RPG with a storyline steeped in Grimm’s […]
Video Game Review – Seasons After Fall
Scott Watson reviews Seasons After Fall… There’s a word that springs to mind playing through Seasons After Fall, both visually and aurally, and that is beautiful. The artwork, the narration, the animation, the music. All of it. Beautiful. It’s a huge part of what draws you into the game, makes you want to invest in […]
