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Age of Empires II is a port of the 2019 real-time strategy game originally published by Xbox Studios but that was a remake of the original Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings which dates back to 1999. And, of course, this has made its way to PSN thanks […]

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition – PS5 Review

May 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged age of empires II / remaster / RTS / strategy / xbox by Richie

I have waited so long to play Beyond Good & Evil. It was always one of those games that was talked with such reverence but I’d never managed to get my hands on it. Now Ubisoft have decided to re-release and update the classic game with a 20th Anniversary Edition. […]

Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition – PS5 Review

July 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alien invasion / beyond good and evil 20th anniversary edition / dictatorship / espionage / hovercraft racing / melee combat / photography / remaster / spying / stealth / ubisoft by Mike

Quantum: Recharged is a arcade action dodging game from Atari that continues their impressively comprehensive fifty year anniversary celebrations by resurrecting yet another one of their old IPs and giving it a fresh coat of paint for modern audiences courtesy of developer SneakyBox. The original Quantum was released in 1982 and isn’t […]

Quantum: Recharged – PS5 Review

August 22, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / atari / quantum / recharged / remaster / sneakybox by Richie

We have to confess being a little nervous about (deep breath) We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie. For whatever reason, its PS4 predecessor Katamari Damacy REROLL didn’t feel right. Perhaps it was the fact it didn’t particularly work for us with the Dualshock 4. At any rate, We Love Katamari […]

We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie – PS5 Review

June 17, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bandai namco / katamari damacy / remaster / reroll / save the pandas by Ian

We’re not exactly sure why MOSS and NIS America insist on releasing their Raiden games in such a bizarre order, but following on from Raiden 5: Director’s Cut and Raiden 4 x MIKADO, here is their last updated port and this time it’s Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX. Dating back to 2005, Raiden III is […]

Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX – PS5 Review

June 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade port / mikado / raiden III / remaster / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

You have to hand it to Atari at the moment. They’re celebrating 50 years in the industry and they’re doing a really good job of it. Aside from revisiting a load of their back catalogue classics with their Recharged series, they also recently put out their Atari 50 compilation which […]

Akka Arrh – PS5 Review

February 20, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged akka arrh / arcade / atari / coin-op / jeff minter / remaster / shoot em up by Richie

We’re nearly two years into the PlayStation 5’s lifespan now and it’s pretty well established that remakes and remasters are very much an integral part of PlayStation’s ecosystem. This year alone we’ve seen Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy receive shiny next gen updates courtesy of […]

The Last of Us Part 1 – PS5 Review

September 12, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / naughty dog / remaster / survival horror / the last of us by Gorilla Stephens

We shouldn’t need to tell you what Breakout: Recharged is. Aside from the screenshots which give it all away immediately, the original Breakout is really one of the cornerstones of classic gaming. Space Invaders had the shooting covered, Pac-Man was the mazey collect ’em up and Breakout was the classic bat and ball versus wall game. The natural […]

Breakout: Recharged – PS5 Review

February 12, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arkanoid / atari / bat and ball / breakout recharged / remaster / retro by Richie

We reviewed Crysis Remastered just over a year ago giving it a fair 8, so we were intrigued to receive Crysis Remastered Trilogy. We thought that it might be some kind of unified affair like the Master Chief Collection from those noisy neighbours in Redmond. But no, it turned out […]

Crysis Trilogy Remastered – PS4 Review

November 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Cry if i want to / crying in the rain / crysis remastered / crytek / remaster / will it run crysis by Ian

Gynoug continues Ratalaika Games recent trend of porting obscure old shoot ’em ups to modern systems. As with their previous port, Gleylancer, this game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that was first released in 1991 on the Sega Megadrive (American readers will know it better as Wings of Wor). The game […]

Gynoug – PS5 Review

November 16, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / gynoug / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / port / remaster / retro / shoot em up by Richie

It’s hard to think of a fanbase that has had it rougher than those of us who like Terminator. With Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate all disappointing in their own ways, it’s been a series that we’d quite happily leave in past. But there have been some brief moments where […]

Terminator: Resistance Enhanced – PS5 Review

May 9, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fps / prequel / remaster / Resistance / sci fi / Terminator by Richie

While many of our contemporaries like to focus on the big triple-A titles, our roots here at PlayStation Country are in playing the indie stuff and it didn’t get more indie than the now-defunct Xbox Live Indie Games service on the Xbox 360. While that service was plagued with some […]

Shoot 1UP DX – PS4 Review

February 24, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indie / remaster / rerelease / shoot 1up dx / shoot em up / vertically-scrolling shoot em up / xbox live indie games by Richie