sports

As the registered sports bloke, I’m given a lot of sports titles to tinker with. Handball is a new one on me. Coming from EKO Software, Handball 21 takes the top leagues of the European game and looks to bring it to a videogame audience. As a newcomer, I’m interested […]

Handball 21 – PS4 Review

November 17, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged barcelona / eko software / handball 21 / paris saint germain / sports / ultimate team by Mike

What an odd thing this is. With 2020 being what it is, you’d be forgiven for seeing a sports title skip a year. Sadly, contractual agreements being what they are, sometimes that’s not an option. With not a whole lot of fanfare, the imaginatively titled eFootball 2021 Season Update, arrives […]

eFootball PES 2021 Season Update – PS4 Review

September 22, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged eFootball PES 2021 season update / frank lampard / konami / online multiplayer / pes productions / ryan giggs / soccer / sports by Mike

Update: Since this review was first published, a patch dropped on 14th September which does improve the shooting. It’s more reliable but I still feel it’s a bit finicky. I’ve been having more success from outside the paint and the timing feels better. I still don’t feel it’s where it needs […]

NBA 2K21 – PS4 Review

September 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged basketball / career mode / myteam / nba 2K21 / online multiplayer / slam dunk / sports / visual concepts by Mike

Super Soccer Blast is an arcade style football game and by that we mean that it leaves all of the fancy presentation, realism and licensing at the door and instead offers the kind of football action we were used to seeing twenty or so years ago. Having grown up playing Match […]

Super Soccer Blast – PS4 Review

June 14, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / football / soccer / sports / super soccer blast by Richie

Big Ant Studios are slowly making a name for themselves with their sports titles. Branching out from cricket, they found themselves giving tennis a crack with AO Tennis. After numerous updates, that clumsy first attempt was starting to resemble something more palatable. Now they’ve opted to give a sequel a […]

AO Tennis 2 – PS4 Review

January 16, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged AO Tennis 2 / ash barty / australian open / big ant studios / nick kyrgios / online multiplayer / rafa nadal / sports by Mike

Super Tennis Blast is an arcade focused tennis game from Barcelona-based coders Unfinished Pixel and offers up the sort of gameplay this sub-genre of sports games had back in the ’90s. Now back in the day Super Tennis on the SNES (no relation to this game) was our jam and many […]

Super Tennis Blast – PS4 Review

June 5, 2019 in PS4 tagged sports / sunglasses on while you sleep / super tennis blast / tennis / weiner dog by Richie

Snooker games are fairly rare so getting two of them in the same week must be some sort of sign of the apocalypse but here we are reviewing another one having just published our review of Snooker 19. Where that game had the official World Snooker license and over 100 real […]

Snooker Nation Championship – PS4 Review

April 23, 2019 in PS4 tagged getting high on the basketball court / snooker / snooker nation / sports / wiener dog by Richie

It’s not very often I get to review a sports game where the sport is completely new to me. Crossminton is perhaps better described by it’s alternative name: Speed Badminton. The racquet sport eliminates the net and uses a quicker shuttlecock called a speeder. The playing field is smaller with […]

eCrossminton – PS4 Review

April 21, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crossminton / daydream software / ecrossminton / ineternational crossminton organisation / minigames / racquet / speed badminton / sports by Mike

We’re probably not required to tell you that Snooker 19 is a snooker simulation but it is and it comes to us from Leamington Spa-based indie studio Lab42 who have a mobile and porting based softography behind them but are now trying their hand and simulation of the relaxing sport […]

Snooker 19 – PS4 Review

April 19, 2019 in PS4 tagged ripstone / simulation / snooker / sports / weiner dog by Richie

I often wonder why mobile ports attract the wrath they do. Having covered a few, there always seems to be some substance to them, whilst simplified in controls and a little lacking in presentation. I’ve rarely seen it feel so wrong to hold it against a product. Timber Tennis Versus, […]

Timber Tennis Versus – PS4 Review

November 18, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged digital melody / multiplayer / Pixel art / sports / timber tennis versus by Mike

It’s September and that can only mean one thing. PES has had a few weeks to shine, and shine it did, but now FIFA is back, ready to suck all of the oxygen out of the genre and to try to establish its place at the top of the pile […]

FIFA 19 – PS4 Review

September 30, 2018 in PS4 tagged fifa / football / simulation / soccer (whatever) / sports by Richie

We don’t know what it is about Survios Games but they seem intent on getting us out of our seat with their VR games. Their previous games were Sprint Vector, which was an exhausting parkour game that made you run by pumping your arms, and Electronauts which had hitting a […]

Creed: Rise to Glory – PSVR Review

September 26, 2018 in PSVR tagged boxing / creed / fitness / PSVR / rocky / sports by Richie