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Sega’s Yakuza series has been going strong for over a decade now with players in the West now receiving the games at a steady rate. After a small delay, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life finally takes to store shelves with a new engine under the hood. Long-time series protagonist […]

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life – PS4 Review

April 25, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / adventure / crime drama / japan / open world / sega / yakuza 6 the song of life by Mike

There’s a moment early on in Far Cry 5 where you are tasked with climbing a tower before being told not worry, you won’t be climbing towers all over the place. This is a cheeky acceptance that Ubisoft have been putting out very samey games for a while now. Both within the Far […]

Far Cry 5 – PS4 Review

April 3, 2018 in PS4 tagged far cry 5 / fps / open world / sandbox / ubisoft by Richie

There’s a reason that there are so many Need for Speed games, it’s ridiculously profitable for EA with each iteration selling bucketloads each year which answers the most obvious question ‘when is Burnout coming back?’ and until now, that wasn’t going to happen. However, with Need for Speed: Payback getting caught up in last year’s […]

Burnout Paradise Remastered – PS4 Review

March 25, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / burnout paradise remastered / carnage / driving / fun / open world by Richie

The Dynasty Warriors series has been around for twenty years and I’ve mainly avoided it. I’ve dabbled with some spin-offs and handheld versions but what I have been reliably informed was a repetitive and shallow hack and slash wasn’t for me. It had its fans but even they would admit […]

Dynasty Warriors 9 – PS4 Review

February 16, 2018 in PS4 tagged chinese / dynasty warriors / hack and slash / Lu Bu / open world / Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Gareth

Road Rage is, like the name suggests, attempting to recapture the magic of Road Rash. There’s been a couple of efforts to recreate it but they haven’t quite succeeded. Dutch indie outfit Team 6 are the latest to try their hand at revitalising a classic formula. Can this really be […]

Road Rage – PS4 Review

November 22, 2017 in PS4 / Reviews tagged open world / racing / road rage / team6 / time trial / vehicle combat by Mike

Middle-earth: Shadow of War has been out for almost a couple of weeks now and I’ve finished it. Completely. There’s been a lot of talk about microtransactions, grinding and a general negativity to the mechanics added outside of the gameplay but do these really damage the overall game? Following on […]

Middle-earth: Shadow of War – PS4 Review

October 23, 2017 in PS4 tagged arkham / batman / microtransactions / middle-earth / open world / orcs / shadow of mordor / shadow of war by Gareth

After it looking like the Yakuza series was dead in the West for a while we now have two releases in the same year, with another due early next as we play catch up. Yakuza 0, a prequel to the original title released on the PS2 came out back in […]

Yakuza Kiwami – PS4 Review

August 21, 2017 in PS4 tagged grand theft auto / japanese / kiwami / mini games / open world / saints row / yakuza / Yakuza 0 by Gareth

Volition have returned after many wondered where the company go post-Saints Row. The answer is Agents of Mayhem which delivers a single-player, third person jaunt in the same universe. Expectations and curiosity is high. Can the quality of their previous titles can be maintained, whilst delving into a new game […]

Agents of Mayhem – PS4 Review

August 20, 2017 in PS4 / Reviews tagged agents of mayhem / hacking / open world / squad-based / third-person shooter / volition by Mike

If I wanted to do a lazy review of LEGO City Undercover then I’d just say it is a LEGO version of Grand Theft Auto and leave it at that. Whilst this comparison holds true LEGO City Undercover manages to do that rarest of all things and actually make a success […]

LEGO City Undercover – PS4 Review

April 8, 2017 in PS4 tagged Chase mccain / GTA / lego / LEGO City undercover / open world by Steven

Without a doubt, the two best tactical shooters of last gen were Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, GRAW to its friends, and its sequel. The hours my online buddies and I spent taking on every mission on that game, as well as challenging randoms in PvP, was more than I care […]

Ghost Recon Wildlands – PS4 Review

March 13, 2017 in PS4 tagged far cry / ghost recon wildlands / graw / open world / ubisoft by Richie

As far as big budget releases go you can’t get much bigger than Horizon Zero Dawn. You would have noticed the adverts all over the shop, the TV segments and YouTube videos. For the past month or so it’s been all about the robotic dinosaurs. With Sony apparently throwing all their […]

Horizon Zero Dawn – PS4 Review

March 7, 2017 in PS4 tagged Arrows / dinosaurs / Horizon zero dawn / open world / robots by Steven

Here it is, the game that was announced as Final Fantasy Versus XIII back in 2006 has been released, renamed as a main line title, Final Fantasy XV. Now the general rule of thumb is if a game has been in development hell for that long then it’s not going […]

Final Fantasy XV – PS4 Review

December 15, 2016 in PS4 tagged chocobos / Final Fantasy / fishing / jrpg / open world / side missions / XV by Gareth