open world

For over a decade, the Test Drive series had laid dormant. Now in the corporate hands of Nacon, the open-world car lifestyle simulator has returned. KT Racing have shown an aptitude for solid handling and replicating large environments, but Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, lacks the soul of the originals. […]

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown – PS5 Review

September 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged always online / digital tourism / driving / festival / hong kong island / luxury cars / multiplayer / open world / racing / test drive unlimited solar crown / time trials by Mike

Star Wars Outlaws then. It comes to us from Swedish Ubisoft subsidiary Massive Entertainment, they of the Division games and more recently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora; representing the first Star Wars game from Ubi since 2006’s Star Wars: Lethal Alliance for PSP and DS. For nerds like us for who […]

Star Wars Outlaws – PS5 Review

September 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged born slippy / criminal underworld / empire / kay vess / nix / open world / outlaws / reputation that's what you need / rest in peace james earl jones / star wars / the names's olo; hans olo by Ian

It’s not very often you see downloadable content coming so long after a game’s release. Elden Ring was critically acclaimed in 2022 and From Software has a fairly solid history of worthy expansions. With a relatively hefty price tag, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has, at the very least, […]

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – PS5 Review

June 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged challenging / dark fantasy / deliberate combat / elden ring shadow of the erdtree / exploration / from software / george r r martin / open world / Souls by Mike

I clearly wasn’t the only one puzzled to see Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed appear only on the Playstation 5 last year. After a tiny bit of uproar, the last generation version has finally got over the line. Limited to only the single player campaign, this cut-price Playstation 4 version […]

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed – PS4 Review

July 9, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3rd person action adventure / alien invasion / black forest games / cold war b movie / destroy all humans! 2 reprobed / jack nicholson / open world by Mike

I think few games have left a mark on open-world design than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Elden Ring has taken the lessons to heart but, prior to that, Sable took a shot at keeping the world fairly quiet and letting players do the map marking. Originally […]

Sable – PS5 Review

December 11, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / climbing / coming of age / masks / open world / platforming / puzzles / rite of passage / sable / shedworks by Mike

I don’t envy the job Volition have of taking the Saints Row series to new places. Over the course of four games, the crew began in Stillwater and became masters of both time and space. Just how do you follow that? On paper, a reboot seemed like a sensible idea […]

Saints Row – PS5 Review

September 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bloody millennials / crime / driving / empire building / gang warfare / open world / saints row / third-person shooter / volition by Mike

Zombie games, they never die do they? Rather apt really. You can go back ten to fifteen years and people were calling for a break from them. Similarly the open world genre is saturating gaming somewhat, with every game needing huge maps with icons all over it to keep the […]

Dying Light 2: Stay Human – PS5 Review

February 17, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dying light / first person / open world / parkour / stay human / zombies by Gareth

Sherlock Holmes has a long legacy of video games, some of which are fondly thought of. It’s a very suitable license for a video game, with a strong, already established character who is highly skilled at what he does. Putting him into the correct genre, like a point and click […]

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One – PS5 Review

November 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged accusation / chapter one / combat arena / elementary / investigation / open world / sherlock holmes by Gareth

When Vaas Montenegro, the charismatic psychopathic bad guy from Far Cry 3, talked about the definition of insanity, there was a certain irony that he was a creation of Ubisoft, the publishing behemoth behind such series as Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six. We’re all well-used to their tried and tested formula built […]

Far Cry 6 – PS5 Review

October 15, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / far cry / far cry 6 / fps / open world / sandbox by Richie

Whilst I do take my motorsport very seriously, I can’t help but admire the spectacle of monster trucks. These behemoths live for big jumps and destruction and Rainbow Studios have arrived to bring for a new edition of the Monster Jam series. Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 looks to build […]

Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 – PS4 Review

March 4, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged destruction / freestyle tricks / monster jam steel titans 2 / monster trucks / motorsport / open world / racing / rainbow studios by Mike

2018’s Spider-Man was one of the best PS4 exclusives. Sure, it played much like all of the open-world Spider-Man games (which is to say all of them since 2004’s Spider-Man 2) but it was executed perfectly. For the record, we gave it an 8 but if I’d taken that review […]

Spider-Man: Miles Morales – PS5 Review

December 6, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged does whatever the first game can / launch title / miles morales / open world / Spider-Man / super hero by Richie

I reviewed Assassin’s Creed Odyssey a couple of years back but it actually took playing it on and off until this year to get the Platinum in it. It was so chock full, overflowing maybe, with content. Now, at the dawn of a new console generation we have Assassin’s Creed […]

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – PS4 Review

November 18, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged assassin's creed / england / free running / ghost of tsushima / norway / odyssey / open world / stealth / ubisoft / valhalla / vikings by Gareth