Swery's episodic adventure is a beautifully dark, bonkers Xbox One fantasy. Your first meaningful interaction in this episodic adventure from the maker of Deadly Premonition involves walking across a frozen lake to push an owl. And that's a long way from the strangest thing you'll be doing over the next few hours, in this bizarre blend of detective drama, surreal comedy and psychological thriller.
The gloves come off in fighting series' portable debut. The first thing that hits you - Peach's frying pan aside - is the speed. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is extraordinarily slick, its characters thumping each other at a glorious 60 frames per second.
Not so much combat evolved as sustained. Destiny's narrative posits a future where humanity, having enjoyed a Golden Age of technological advancement that saw us colonise other planets, has been brought to the verge of extinction by an event referred to as The Collapse.
The latest PlayStation indie offering is the definition of style over substance. It took Sony years of hard work to achieve, but its PlayStation Store today stands as a thriving marketplace for smaller, quirkier, independently developed games.
4A's update is a facelifted double bill that's worth your time. Rush hour on the venerable London Underground seems less traumatic if you consider Artyom's predicament.
Ridiculous difficulty and poor characterisation squander potential. We should probably feel a tinge of guilt that we've just shot a one-legged man in the head, his only crime being that he pleaded for a drink of water in order to stave off lethal dehydration.
With remakes this good, who needs new games?. Many would argue that Naughty Dog's powerful, bleak survival thriller was last year's best game; indeed, it rather overshadowed the launch titles for the eighth generation of consoles, proving that last-gen hardware still had plenty to offer.
CVG reviews Telltale Games' adventure game adaptation of the Fables line of comics. Warning: the The following Wolf Among Us season 1 review contains critical spoilers. Please do not read the main copy below unless you have finished the game. The final score and evaluation are spoiler-free
Rebellion's latest pairs iffy AI with spiffy sniping. Given the slew of WWII shooters that plagued the Xbox 360 and PS3, it's interesting that in this new generation most publishers seem reluctant to release one.
Fighting the good fight and coming out on top. With Ubisoft increasingly cementing itself as the Prince Philip of game publishers, barely able to escape one controversy before another emerges, you can be forgiven for harbouring some suspicion for Valiant Hearts: The Great War. It is, after all, a puzzle game with rhythm-action sequences, set in WWI, and published by a company which these days can't even release a piece of box art without having to explain why it isn't racist.
Codemasters returns to its roots with a stripped-down racing masterclass. Released just 12 months ago, Grid 2 proved divisive. Codemasters' experiment to give the series broader appeal upset many of the players who grew up with TOCA.
With new characters, modes and balance tweaks, this is truly the definitive version. Of all its iterations, Ultra Street Fighter 4 represents arguably the most significant revision the game has undertaken since its release in 2009. With new characters and refreshed gameplay mechanics, new online features and numerous balance tweaks, this fifth iteration is a comprehensive upgrade that delivers the definitive Street Fighter experience.
Crime may not pay, but it sure is tedious to bring to justice... Detective games, which is what we're Christening this genre, are not the same as puzzle games. In the latter - something like Machinarium, for instance - there's no inherent flaw in having to scour high and low and click in all manner of places in order to find the crank handle that operates the forklift to move the caged rhino to free the herd of talking goats.
Forget Batman, Aiden Pearce is the modern superhero video games deserve. We were home free. As Watch Dogs' hacktavist poster boy, Aiden Pearce, we'd just finished sneaking around a floodlit outdoor facility crawling with shooty corporate henchmen. Our objective had been a computer terminal smack in the middle, surrounded by gantries and armed thugs.
But the weakened gameplay hooks limit the appeal. Despite the pseudo-scientific warnings about maintaining a certain distance from the TV, one could argue that admiring Transistor at dangerously close proximity is a risk worth taking.
New spin plays by old rules to produce a prize surprise. Considering it's been around in one form or another since 1981, it's fair to say that we leapt into this Nazi-murdering series reboot with a few pre-emptive expectations in place. There will be violence, intense shootouts and castles, we naturally assumed. Such is certainly the case. But The New Order does something we never expected.
Nintendo's racer again proves why it shell not be moved. Few companies in the world demonstrate the mastery of reinvention quite like Nintendo. From the conception of 2D platforming through to defining an era of 3D worlds, Mario is the epitome of the big N's ability to play with our expectations.
Agent 47 slips onto mobile with perfect execution, but at its core the idea is flawed. Solving puzzles in Hitman Go simply isn't fun enough to recommend.
Ubisoft Montreal comes close to capturing the spirit of Ghibli. The films of Studio Ghibli are punctuated with some of the strongest young women in world cinema. Nausica#228;, San, Chihiro, Sophie and the diminutive Arietty all capture hearts without resorting to Hollywood stereotyping or crass sexualisation.
Is Kirby back bursting at the seams, or just a bit puffed out?. Kids' games have always existed, but no one's ever fully decided exactly what they're for. The likes of the Carmen Sandiego series always aimed to teach kids something transferable, to turn otherwise wasted time into sneaky extra-curricular activities. The LEGO series, on the other hand, aims to teach our spawn little more than the fact that Danish-ly presented wizards, space monks or cosmic heralds can punch the injection moulded crap out of bricks.
Last week Final Fantasy XV Game Director Hajime Tabata told Peter Brown that we'll play his new game next year. Peter and Alexa join Danny to discuss how this is possible.
Last week Final Fantasy XV Game Director Hajime Tabata told Peter Brown that we'll play his new game next year. Peter and Alexa join Danny to discuss how this is possible.
Rocket League DLC Patch Available Now, Adds New Map and Spectator Mode