The most difficult part of any Dark Souls game isn’t battling monsters or navigating trap-ridden environments—it’s choosing how to play. I can’t tell you how many times I agonized over which skill to level up next, or before that, which character class to start as. There’s no shortage of numbers to parse, and subtle differences between...
A little over a year ago I reviewed Hand of Fate, an action-RPG with deckbuilding strategy and a lot of tough choices. The concept was unique and clever—you create a deck from encounter and equipment cards, the dealer mixes in some nasty ones of his own, and then a dungeon path is dealt out for...
Epistory – Typing Chronicles is a game that mixes typing (think Typing of the Dead, or Mavis Beacon) with action-adventurey roleplaying. Also, you play as a character riding on the back of a fox for some reason. It turns out this is enough to pique my interest. You’re fighting insects in an origami world, in...
Phil liked Superhot, but his primary complaint was that it had people in instead of trucks. I mean, I haven’t read his review, but that’s surely what dragged it down to an 84. Phil is probably over the moon about Super Truck, then, because it is Superhot, but with trucks. (I wonder if that’s where they got the...
Sam lake The instantly recognizable Sam Lake is the original face of Max Payne, and wrote the scripts for the first two games. He was also lead writer on Alan Wake and its offshoots, and most recently Quantum Break, a third-person shooter with TV show elements that’s being published by Microsoft for Windows 10. Lake is currently writer/creative director...
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A beautiful, challenging action RPG.Expect to pay £15/$20Developer Heart MachinePublisher In-houseReviewed on GeForce GTX 970, Intel i7-5820K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official site The drifter, a mute warrior draped in a red cloak and wielding a sword made of light, is an enigma. He roams a broken landscape searching for...
Ya koon tacha ka poonoo nee sah. Jabba the Hutt is laughing at me. The corpulent crime boss rumbles ominously in Huttese, relishing my damning choice to strike a deal with him. What little light that struggles through his throne room’s smoky haze is gridded onto the walls and floor through slatted vents. A stronger...
TimeSplitters 2 was a defining game of the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and, er, not PC. In fact, there has never been a TimeSplitters game on PC, until now: the first two levels of TimeSplitters 2, Siberia and Chicago, are hidden inside the upcoming Homefront: The Revolution. If you’d rather not know where, back away now. TimeSplitters’ singleplayer campaign was...
It’s Homefront: The Revolution’s civilian population that interests me most. There’s potential to get inside the minds of an oppressed people and explore the dynamics between an armed resistance, collaborators and those just trying to get on with their lives. Whether The Revolution can exploit that potential remains to be seen, but NPCs promise to be more than decoration. The new...
Grime, blood and decay: these are images that accompany the sentence “an action game inspired by Syndicate and GTA1”, no? No indeed. Tokyo 42 looks more Mirror’s Edge than Grand Theft Auto, perhaps by way of Hitman Go. Developed by SMAC and published by Mode 7, the developer of Frozen Synapse, Tokyo 42 looks to be an assassination game in miniature. That’s...
