simulator

I can see the appeal of truck sims. There’s a meditative quality to long drives through a gorgeous landscape, all while keeping an eye on your precious cargo. Truck Driver: The Dutch Connection attempts to coalesce the mercenary jobs into a cohesive narrative. That largely succeeds but the act of […]

Truck Driver: The Dutch Connection – PS5 Review

November 25, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged delivery / dutch / kyodai / precious cargo / schipol / simulator / soedesco pilsen / trailer / trucking / tulips / windmills by Mike

Police Shootout is a turn-based first person shooter from Polish dev team Hypnotic Ants. Their previous work includes Deconstruction Simulator, Ship Graveyard Simulator and Dreamo. None of which you’ll have heard of but you can tell from each game’s artwork that we’re not dealing with a triple-A studio here. And Police Shootout, pretty much from […]

Police Shootout – PS5 Review

March 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged fps / hypnotic ants / police shooter / simulator / turn-based by Richie

World Championship Boxing Manager II is, as the name suggests, a boxing management simulator and it comes to us by way of Pittsburgh programming crew Mega Cat Studios, a studio that formed some twenty-five years after the original game came out. As in the original game, you play as a […]

World Championship Boxing Manager II – PS4 Review

May 17, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boxing / fighting / management / simulator / world championship boxing manager 2 by Richie

Reviewing a game like Zen Studios’ Pinball FX is a little like reviewing the latest FIFA. Taken in isolation, it does about as perfect a job of simulating its target subject as you can realistically expect from a videogame. From the core elements of the physics of the ball, the feel of […]

Pinball FX – PS5 Review

February 21, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fx / monetisation / pinball / simulator / zen by Richie

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is the latest title from Vancouver natives Blackbird Interactive and it’s genuinely got a different concept to really any game we’ve reviewed or played. It’s pretty much as the name suggests. You’re a spaceship salvager and you float around in space cutting up giant space ships before flinging their […]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker – PS5 Review

October 3, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hardspace shipbreaker / in space no one can make you put out the green bin / recycling / simulator / space / work by Richie

There must be a difficult balance to strike when deciding to build gaming experiences out of real-life events. It can be considered a relatively common practise for the likes of war scenarios; however, the balance comes in when you must consider the amount of relevance and respect that needs to […]

Riot: Civil Unrest – PS4 Review

February 4, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged baffling / game / Protest / ps4 / review / Riot: Civil Unrest / simulator / uncontrollable by Grizz

Air Missions: HIND is a combat helicopter simulator from Slovakian sky-based warfare specialists 3Division. Originally the game was released in 2016 on the PC with its console debut on the Xbox One a year or so later. Now it’s landed (arf!) on the PS4, sneaking in on the same week […]

Air Missions: HIND – PS4 Review

November 2, 2018 in PS4 tagged air combat / air missions hind / helicopter / simulator / warfare by Richie