... and the best Final Fantasy in years. A quick history lesson. In the beginning, there was Final Fantasy XIV, an MMO of such insultingly poor quality that its players revolted and demanded more. Aside from the terrible controls and distinctly inferior storytelling, there were so many major bugs that the whole thing bordered on unplayable.
An enchanting time-sink, somewhat tainted by pay-to-win. Hearthstone is a spellbinding contest of wits and strategy that costs absolutely nothing for tens of hours.
A mystical, bewildering adventure into the beautiful unknown. Those who have tapped their way through the psychedelic 2011 mobile game Whale Trail might have already tarnished its developer, London design agency Ustwo, with all the odious associations of professional hipsters.
A concept like this can't be a baaaaaad thing. You know how jokes get less funny the more you hear them, but eventually pass some sort of event horizon of humour after which the amusement starts to increase again? This phenomenon - probably called something like Lee's Law - does not apply to Goat Simulator, a game that unfortunately falls victim to a different principle: that of diminishing returns.
World Cup fever will be inevitable if you buy this summer's spin-off. EA might have experimented with a download-only route for its official Euro 2012 game, but when it comes to the World Cup, the publisher has made a clear choice to offer a full retail release.
RedLynx's series is racing heaven trapped in freemium purgatory. Such is the open nature of the Apple and Android app stores that both have already been awash with Trials clones for a number of years now.
Bethesda's MMO offers remarkable exploration - if you're willing to overlook its flaws. A single-player game blown open to allow for expansive massively multiplayer moments? Is this an impossible task? After many tens of hours spent questing in Tamriel, we've discovered the truth of the matter.
Rare delivers a complex and charismatic motion game. The biggest compliment we can pay the new Kinect Sports is that, unlike its somewhat shallow predecessors, Rivals is a complete video game; there's depth and complexity here, challenge and reward, and systems which straddle demographics as well as any Mario Kart or Minecraft can.
Irrational's swansong draws a line under the series. Over the last year BioShock Infinite has gone from being a critically acclaimed darling to one of the most divisive games in the industry.
Worth one last crusade if you can stomach the price. Malthael threatens to undo everything you fought for, Nephalim. As Tyrael and the six Horadrim take the Black Soulstone to the tomb of Rakkis, first King of Westmarch, the self-proclaimed "Angel of Death" ambushes them. With the power of the stone now in his hands, the trapped souls of... ah, who are we kidding? You're here to talk numbers.
Vlambeer's latest is an electrifying dance with death. Scattering the sky with fighter planes is quite possibly the squarest concept Vlambeer can muster. It's a departure to more conventional surroundings; a well deserved holiday away from the signature strangeness that sometimes overshadows the studio's raw talent.
An unforgivably sloppy game; broken and aimless. Yaiba, the highly dubious protagonist of this highly atrocious spin-off from the main Ninja Gaiden series, seems to think that he's really cool. He sees himself as an edgy, rough-hewn, badboy charmer; the kind of guy who's as gruff and no-nonsense as he is sharp-tongued and charismatic. He seems to think that he's a big hit with the ladies. He seems to think that he's cyborg-ninja Han Solo. In truth, he is none of those things.
Kojima's prologue to MGS5 The Phantom Pain cuts its crescendo short. Would you pay close to full price for the opening hours of Skyrim? How much value can be measured from the first chapter and boss fight of Dark Souls? Despite Kojima Productions' public denials, this is the purchase conundrum that comes with Metal Gear Sold V: Ground Zeroes. It's a typically stylish and strategic Metal Gear game, but a gaunt one, built as a prologue the full sequel The Phantom Pain.
3DS sequel lacks the creativity of its predecessors. When the original Yoshi's Island was released on the SNES back in 1995, it was considered a rebellious move by Shigeru Miyamoto.
Destined to be remembered as one of the best multiplayer games of the generation. Five seconds is all TowerFall needs to win your heart. This multiplayer-focused arena-brawler is archery's answer to Bomberman; carefree, easily comprehensible and instantly intoxicating.
Be advised: Respawn's sure-footed FPS is a genuine show-stopper. Titanfall is an anomaly. We're mere months into a new console generation, and right now publishers and format holders alike are doing the same old dance: promising bigger, better, more, more, more. So it's odd that the game of the moment should choose to ignore that mantra.
Wildly offensive tie-in RPG is super, thanks for asking. It's tempting to dive into a review of South Park: The Stick of Truth by telling you about the game's most outrageous scenes. Truthfully, it's better if you discover them yourself. And, when the backlash against the 'did that really just happen?' moments inevitably occurs, it will totally miss the point. The Stick of Truth is more than just wang-waving controversy - quite simply, it's the most accurate video game adaptation of anything, ever. Yes, even Batman.
Sequel bites off more than it can chew by trying to cater for too many. Lords of Shadow 1 was a come-out-of-nowhere, put-a-studio-on-the-map gem. MercurySteam dug the fangs of modern tech into the neck of Konami's 8/16-bit adventures resulting in a supercharged take on those simpler times. It was a linear action romp in the vein of God Of War, but shot through with a bleak Gothic beauty and Patrick Stewart delivering enough ham to fill a deli counter. We loved it, many of you loved it, but some of the hardened 'vania core didn't. It's in trying to get that last lot on board that LoS2 may have bitten off more than it can chew.
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.
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