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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

22 Sep, 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

11 Sep, 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

14 Jun, 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

16 Jan, 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

5 Jun, 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

23 Apr, 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

21 Apr, 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

19 Apr, 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

18 Nov, 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

30 Sep, 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

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

I can’t imagine HB Studios expected to becoming the leading developers of golf sims but, with EA very much out of the picture, they’ve found themselves grabbing some PGA licensing. With that, a touch of legitimacy arrives to a still very independent project. What the license does give you is […]

The Golf Club 2019 – PS4 Review

18 Sep, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged golf / hb studios / online multiplayer / PGA / sports / the golf club 2019 / this one's for my pa by Mike