Yearly Archives: 2020

We reviewed the original Distraint last September, less than a year ago, and remains one of our favourite games from the ever-prolific publishers Ratalaika. It told the story of Price, a young man working for a law firm who lets his job change him as a person until he eventually […]

Distraint 2 – PS4 Review

July 14, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged distraint 2 / horror / misery / psychological / ratalaika by Richie

I’ve grown to like the NASCAR Heat series. Whilst I tend to spend most of my gaming around circuits, the ovals of North America provide something different and the racing has a compact competitiveness I just don’t tend to find much outside of Touring Cars. 704 Games are back with […]

NASCAR Heat 5 – PS4 Review

July 14, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 704 games / esports / motorsports / nascar heat 5 / online multiplayer / ovals / racing by Mike

Radical Rabbit Stew from Swedish developer Pugstorm AB is the latest release from publisher Sold Out, themselves a subsidiary of Mastertronic. Those long in the tooth gamers, ourselves included, will remember Mastertronic from days of yore when games came on cassette… Radical Rabbit Stew is a puzzle game with a […]

Radical Rabbit Stew – PS4 Review

July 13, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged pugstorm / puzzle / rabbits / stew by Ian

SUPERHOT was something special when it released on PC back in 2016. The core gameplay of time standing still (or at least moving incredibly slowly) unless you moved made for some great scenarios and action set pieces. Combined with the super stylistic visuals and a vague and trippy story SUPERHOT […]

SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE – PS4 Review

July 13, 2020 in PS4 tagged control / delete / first person / mind / skills / slow motion / story / super hot by Gareth

With the new season just getting underway, it seems F1 2020 release has been accidentally well timed. Representing the season Covid won’t allow you to have, Codemasters’ latest effort features the two new circuits and a new mode to express your inner Jack Brabham. Some of the tech is looking […]

F1 2020 – PS4 Review

July 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cars / codemasters / esports / f1 2020 / formula 2 / formula one / motorsport / online multiplayer / racing / team management / time trial by Mike

Of all the retro gaming trends to happen in recent years, one of my favourites has to be when publishers go searching for age old titles that never saw the light of day and finish the work of the developers and finally give the games the airing they may or […]

Ultracore – PS4 Review

July 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged DICE / Gun / Mega CD / Mega Drive / Run / synthwave / Ultracore by Grizz

Now I’ve done it. I’ve opened the Pandora’s box on visual novels now and another one has been sent my way. It’s not a genre I’ve ever been enamoured with but at least A Summer With the Shiba Inu offers a decent mystery on paper. It’s a genre where the […]

A Summer with the Shiba Inu

July 5, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged a summer with the shiba inu / dogs / military laser tag / mystery / narratively-driven / quill game studios / spying / visual novel by Mike

This week’s Ratalaika release is Clash Force, a run and gun shooter in the vein of Contra. It was originally a phone game but the only real evidence of that is that one of the two settings in the options menu is to mute the game (the other is language). […]

Clash Force – PS4 Review

July 2, 2020 in PS4 tagged clash force / contra / Mega Man / platinum / ratalaika / run and gun by Gareth

It shouldn’t need to be said, but It’s been a tough decade or two for Star Wars. Depending on who you ask, the series lived and died by its first three outings, which still stand tall as one of the best movie trilogies to date. There a quite a few […]

Star Wars Episode I: Racer – PS4 Review

July 1, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Anakin Skywalker / Episode 1 / pod racing / racer / star wars by Grizz

RIP Bigben Interactive, we barely knew ye. Now known as Nacon, they bring us Belgian developer Neopica’s latest in Hunting Simulator 2. Something of an about face from ETRC by the same developer, though they did release the first of these games in 2017. We have to confess it passed […]

Hunting Simulator 2 – PS4 Review

June 29, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged hunting / nacon / neopica / walking simulator by Ian

You probably know this by now but I’m a sucker for hardcore race sims. There’s something about the act of driving that I want to pursue. Unfortunately, life as a cowardly pedestrian has left me resigned to playing at being a boy racer virtually. More often than not, the good […]

Assetto Corsa Competizione – PS4 Review

June 29, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged assetto corsa competizione / endurance / gr world challenge / hotlap / hotstint / kunos simulazioni / motorsports / racing gt3 / simulation / time trial by Mike

Continuing their recent, lengthy streak of retro-inspired shoot ’em ups, Eastasiasoft have released Octonaut which is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up featuring the titutar Octonaut, a floating octopus who is tasked with saving the Earth from an alien invasion. Set across eight stages, the game plays out in typical fashion with […]

Octonaut – PS4 Review

June 27, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / easy platinum / horizontal / retro / shoot em up by Richie