A new year and another PS4 console game has made the jump to PC, with Santa Monica Studio’s God of War now available to PC gamers – and what a beauty it is.
When the game came out on console in 2018 it quickly became the poster child for how a talented development team could make games on Sony’s console sing.
On PC the graphical fidelity has been turned all the way up to 11 – and it looks bloody fantastic.
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2021, pandemic year 2 and again a feast of video game goodness was to be had. Join us in the End of Year Wrap 2021 to pick over some memories.
It’s always interesting to get a diverse view across the team of what hit and missed us this last twelve months.
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The Roccat Kone Pro Air wireless mouse has done the unthinkable: It’s become my go-to gaming mouse.
Superseding the excellent Logitech G gaming mouse that has been my staple for, well, I’ve lost track of how many years I’ve used it.
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Microsoft are on a roll there’s no debate Gamepass is the service du jour, Flight Simulator made a massive splash and now we get the Master Chief for Christmas.
Make no mistake the silly season is going to be peppered with the screams of a billion Grunts.
Thanks to Microsoft for supplying the Korucottage team with early review code.
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Space Combat games have always been a favourite genre for me. Starting with Descent back in 1995 and most recently with the excellent Star Wars: Squadrons on the PSVR.
But the genre often struggled to get AAA quality outings. Certainly, any tangible story and world building rarely occurs within them.
BUT, Chorus has literally come out of my blind-spot and some how managed to be both an awesome arcade space combat game, with an interesting story.
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Real Time Strategy (RTS) titles like Iron Harvest on Console are a rare beast.
And even rarer is a Console RTS that has a control and user interface (UI) system, which isn’t a finger twisting nightmare on a controller. But it can be done.
Halo Wars and Sudden Strike 4 have nailed the UI in an RTS for Console gamers, and Iron Harvest…almost did.
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Yet again I chuck on the rose-tinted glasses to revisit some good memories from the early days of the original Xbox.
This time it is a bit of an obscure HD remake in the form of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.
Originally released in 2002 in the gaming vein of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Banjo-Kazooie, Ty definitely hit a chord with New Zealand and Australian gamers.
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Football Manager 2022 brings me back to one of my most beloved genres. Having spent the best part of 40 years playing these games. All the way from Kevin Toms’ 1987 Football Manager, through my love affair with CM97/98 to here and today. Sports Interactive are way ahead in this game and it shows.
Yes.It’s make believe and even the best of them look like a spreadsheet, a keen eye soon learns where to look. But, once you’re under and engaged with these players it all starts to become important, to you, personally.
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The 90’s gave birth to some classic families of Arcade Games, and for the time the original G-Darius HD was among one of them. Now iningames.com have brought it back.
The formula is classic Arcade, side-scrolling shooter, Bullet Hell and Boss Fights. What could go wrong? Well, back in the day not a lot, it was challenging and fun with some interesting nuances.
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Call of Duty : Vanguard, being the 2021 annual entry to the series Dylan takes us back to WWII to battle latency, with or without Zombies.
Until Vanguard, my relationship with shooters has simmered the last few years. I used to love them. Loved those AA and AAA shooters. I loved CoD 2 – the house-to-house fighting still jostles inside my gaming memories for prime position.
I loved Wolfenstein and Rise of the Triad and Doom and Quake and Singularity and even Timeshift. I’ve enjoyed quite a few Calls of Duty. I even got sent to LA to preview Black Ops 3.
We played MW3 on the morning of my wedding to take our minds off the day. But since then, I’ve just kinda . . . not played many.
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I had very little basis to be as hyped as I was for the new Guardians of the Galaxy game.
The E3 trailer looked pretty good, even if Star-Lord was presented as bit of a “dude-bro” and the dev team (of modern Deus Ex fame) have a reasonable pedigree in the AAA space. But I had concerns as the Comic book, super-hero genre is hard to get right.
However…against the odds Eidos Montreal crushed it!
With an absolutely fantastic Marvel game and some of the best characters I have experienced since Mass Effect.
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