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Cricket 19
A review for Guardian2019-06-13
Like the sport itself, it is modest, yet dignified.Read entire review on Guardian -
Void Bastards
A review for Guardian2019-05-29
This game is an idiosyncratic joy – a brash, clever, juvenile head-trip, messy at the edges but all the more likable for it. It is loaded with brilliant pop-culture references, channeling not just Adams, 2000AD and Tank Girl, but also anime and 90s industrial dance music. Void Bastards is Cowboy Bebop meets Trainspotting, on a night out, in a galaxy of death.Read entire review on Guardian -
Observation
A review for Guardian2019-05-22
It’s unsettling and unconventional, and I was totally unable to turn away.Read entire review on Guardian -
Team Sonic Racing
A review for Guardian2019-05-22
There are still moments when you unfairly plummet from first to sixth in three seconds, but that frustration is as much a part of this genre as cartoonish platforming heroes looking for a lucrative side gig. Just go with the flow.Read entire review on Guardian -
Total War: Three Kingdoms
A review for Guardian2019-05-16
Total War: Three Kingdoms is a wonderfully torrid period epic that understands the greatest stories are written about people, not empires.Read entire review on Guardian -
Rage 2
A review for Guardian2019-05-14
Rage 2 suffers the same fate as many other open-world games. It tries to lure the player in with the size of its world, then needs to conjure an abundance of content to fill it. But, when you mix up every colour, you always end up with brown, and the impact of Rage 2’s scintillating shooter action is dulled as a result.Read entire review on Guardian -
Mortal Kombat 11
A review for Guardian2019-04-30
Yet this is comfortably the best Mortal Kombat in a long time. Played competitively against another person, it’s great, and the single-player experience is the most accomplished of any recent fighter.Read entire review on Guardian -
Days Gone
A review for Guardian2019-04-25
Days Gone is a derivative but enjoyable action-adventure with a beautiful environment, using AI and physics to create exciting moments of procedural entertainment. But its familiar tale of mankind struggling to re-create society after the end of the world and its romantic through-line are haphazardly structured and under-written, and the characters are too busy calling each other sons of bitches and assholes to say or do anything moving, original or profound. This is a game of fun and fury – it’s thrilling at times, but it signifies nothing.Read entire review on Guardian -
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
A review for Guardian2019-04-12
If you’re at a point in life where you have frequent long evenings or empty weekends to throw at its mountainous challenges, you will find here an exquisite game whose subtle themes, gradually unfurling mysteries and beautiful samurai-period sights reward the determined and skilled player. Otherwise, Sekiro is a stubbornly locked treasure chest. It’s as if the Lord of the Rings had only been published in Tolkein’s own Elvish, unreadable without long hours of gruelling study.Read entire review on Guardian -
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
A review for Guardian2019-03-19
An accomplished but rather tedious and macabre game.Read entire review on Guardian -
Hypnospace Outlaw
A review for Guardian2019-03-14
As I sat late into the night, clicking through strange websites, discovering secret pages and file-sharing boards, reading about online fallouts between made-up strangers, I was reminded so strongly of my teenage late nights on the weird internet that I felt temporarily unmoored. It is an extraordinary feat of scene-setting, and totally unlike anything I’ve ever played before.Read entire review on Guardian -
Devil May Cry 5
A review for Guardian2019-03-06
DMC5 is a lot like Dante himself: older, grizzled, more experienced, yet still unapologetically juvenile in the best possible way. It’s bloody, spectacular and irresistible, all cheesy one-liners, guns, swords and explosions while guitars scream in the background, and it plays like a dream. Director Hideaki Itsuno and his team have delivered: Devil May Cry is back.Read entire review on Guardian -
Dead or Alive 6
A review for Guardian2019-03-04
Those who have enjoyed Dead or Alive games in the past will love Dead or Alive 6 – it looks and feels like it always did, but with state-of-the-art graphics and engine technology. Unfortunately, the fact that it has also preserved the tone of its predecessors will limit its appeal.Read entire review on Guardian -
Trials Rising
A review for Guardian2019-02-28
On the bike, though, Trials Rising is close to flawless, a demanding, absorbing and occasionally rage-inducing game that will serve you up an exciting challenge for as long as you can take it.Read entire review on Guardian -
Anthem
A review for Guardian2019-02-21
Even where it is strongest, Anthem rarely stretches beyond the derivative. The combat, while well-designed, is little more than Gears of War with jetpacks, and narratively it veers between inconsequential and downright irritating. This anthem is, sadly, a tedious and conservative dirge that we’ve all heard beforeRead entire review on Guardian -
Apex Legends
A review for Guardian2019-02-15
This is the battle royale genre pitilessly trimmed to its wildest moments, where every encounter is a riot of explosive jump-cut hyper-violence. It is not for the faint of heart or slow of trigger-finger.Read entire review on Guardian -
Crackdown 3
A review for Guardian2019-02-14
Really, it’s the kind of game that’s best enjoyed when you don’t think about it very hard. It’ll make 12-15 hours disappear in an ever-escalating sequence of rooftop-spanning leaps of faith, easily conquered shootouts and cartoonish face-offs against supervillains and giant robots. It’s as moreish as popcorn, and exactly as substantial.Read entire review on Guardian -
Metro Exodus
A review for Guardian2019-02-13
As Exodus’ story draws to a close and the pace picks up, the world becomes narrower and more directed, and a final chapter takes players to the most dangerous Metro location yet. Here Exodus exposes you to the full horror of the apocalypse, as the experience takes on a surreal, otherworldly quality. It’s an excellent conclusion – haunting, frightening, and desperately sad. Yet even in this dead and desolate place, faint embers of hope still linger.Read entire review on Guardian -
Kingdom Hearts III
A review for Guardian2019-02-06
Perhaps it was inevitable that after such a long time, the conclusion to this story would ring slightly hollow, even rather facile, after all the prior build-up. I’ve been through 13 years of life, but it turns out that Sora got to skip all of that. Kingdom Hearts III plays it extremely safe, ultimately banking on nostalgia and delivering more of the same. Its charm is only skin-deep.Read entire review on Guardian -
Resident Evil 2
A review for Guardian2019-01-22
For veterans who remember the original (and I reviewed it at the time), it is an unmissable nostalgic treat. For those who don’t know their T-Viruses from their Code Veronicas, the experience is easily vivid and entertaining enough to stand on its own merits. This is horror game design as true craft.Read entire review on Guardian
