Richie

About Richie

Rich is the editor of PlayStation Country. He likes his games lemony and low-budget with a lot of charm. This isn't his photo. That'll be Rik Mayall.

While it’s the endless fighting games and the slightly overappreciated Metal Slugs that people remember so fondly when they think back to the Neo Geo, some of the best games were the curios that everyone seems to forget about. Until now Windjammers, Data East’s frisbee-flinging sports title, was one of […]

Windjammers – PS4 Review

September 5, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / disc / frisbee / neo geo / online / throwing / windjammers by Richie

Described as a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Syndicate, Mode7’s latest game Tokyo 42 comes to the PS4 after already establishing a reputation on PC and Xbox One. Being compared to the greatest isometric game ever, and the second best GTA (GTA V being the best) is no joke […]

Tokyo 42 – PS4 Review

August 30, 2017 in PS4 tagged isometric / stealth / strategy / syndicate / tokyo 42 by Richie

While I never had much time in the Eighties, I ended up rather liking Paperboy decades later when it was ported to Xbox Live Arcade. After more hours than it should have taken, I completed a full week on the game and I found the whole challenge pretty rewarding in […]

Special Delivery – PSVR Review

August 28, 2017 in PSVR tagged arcade / getting run over a lot / newspapers / paperboy / PSVR / special delivery / vr by Richie

RobotRiot is a 2D arcade shoot ’em up/platformer hybrid that has you playing a small debt collecting robot called SLUG who is tasked with raiding space ships. Each ship has multiple levels that require you to fight your way through the ships’ defences in order to blow up reactors. I […]

RobotRiot: Hyper Edition – PS4 Review

August 19, 2017 in PS4 tagged 16-bit / ios / platformer / robotriot / shoot em up by Richie

Messhof’s original Nidhogg game was a simple fence ’em up that pitted players against each other in one on one sword combat. With it’s ’80s graphics and bombastic soundtrack, it assaulted the senses while providing some of the most intense and well-balanced gameplay ever. Whenever I end up in a […]

Nidhogg 2 – PS4 Review

August 19, 2017 in PS4 tagged combat / fencing / nidhogg 2 / party game / swords by Richie

You generally know what you’re going to get with a Housemarque game. Slick twin stick action and plenty of visual flair are the cornerstones of what the Finnish coders do but there’s a couple of things that are surprising about their latest joint. Firstly, Matterfall comes hot on the heels […]

Matterfall – PS4 Review

August 17, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / housemarque / matterfall / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

We’re always happy when a dev team that we respect adopts the PSVR tech and when FuturLab announced Tiny Trax, we were chuffed. Aside from their very well received Velocity games, we also lost a fair bit of time to Surge Deluxe which an underrated puzzler for the Vita. This […]

Tiny Trax – PSVR Review

August 3, 2017 in PSVR by Richie

Some games are so minimalist and designed for a single purpose that reviewing them becomes quite difficult. You try pulling out a thousand words on Tetris and see how far you get. In a way, Smashbox Arena is one of those games as it gives you one thing. 3v3 arena […]

Smashbox Arena – PSVR Review

August 1, 2017 in PSVR tagged dodgeball / fps / online / PSVR / smashbox arena by Richie

Zen Studios are probably best known for the many dozens of virtual pinball tables they’ve been bringing to consoles for the last few years, so it’s good to see them doing something different. Infinite Minigolf is their take on what us Brits call crazy golf. Rather than whacking your ball […]

Infinite Minigolf – PSVR Review

August 1, 2017 in PS4 / PSVR tagged golf / infinite minigolf / online / party / PSVR / sports by Richie

Come and have a look behind the curtain. There are five writers on the PlayStation Country staff and we all have different tastes. What happens is that when review codes come in, we put them on a private forum that we use and people decide what they want to review. […]

Aven Colony – PS4 Review

July 27, 2017 in PS4 tagged aven colony / base building / god sim / LV426 / RTS / space by Richie

It’s so difficult to be enthusiastic about another twin-stick shooter, especially one that marries the two indie gaming cliches of ‘roguelike mechanics’ and ’16-bit graphics’ together but Iron Crypticle is here and offers up yet another helping of this now overpopulated sub-genre. You know the score by now. You (and […]

Iron Crypticle – PS4 Review

July 18, 2017 in PS4 by Richie

I’ve never really bought into the whole Pixar thing. Computer animation always feels too cold and clinical to me and anyway all these films have the same plot and I’m not ten years old. The games are usually good for an easy trophy/achievement set and not much more. So when […]

Cars 3: Driven to Win – PS4 Review

July 18, 2017 in PS4 tagged cars 3 / driven to win / driving / kids / pixar by Richie