If you can ignore the really poor storytelling and the fact this new version of Lara Croft flings the previous games’ character development out the freaking window, Shadow of the Tomb Raider can be widely enjoyed as the closest to a proper old-school Tomb Raider the reboot series has ever been.
Episode One: ‘Roads’ manages to close out a pretty traumatic story arc for the two brothers, and it leaves enough hooks to keep me pinning for what’s to come in the remainder of the season.
Two Point Hospital more than lives up to the weight of expectation that comes from being a Theme Hospital spiritual successor.
It is easy to understand why the team behind The Messenger was so reluctant to show the 8-bit/16-bit environment mechanics in the trailers. It’s a very well executed twist: you travel through time and this is represented by an aesthetic evolution between two gaming generations. That’s not exactly a new idea — 2007’s Super Paper…
Last Tuesday CD Projekt RED held a preview event in São Paulo in order to show off its newest game set in The Witcher franchise, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, a standalone adventure game that makes use of the Gwent engine for combat and puzzles in some very novel and admittedly fun ways. I already had…
Sword Legacy Omen is the newest attempt at borrowing the tactical gameplay that made the XCOM, Jagged Alliance, Shadowrun, The Banner Saga series so much fun and applying it to another theme. This time, we’re joining up with King Arthur’s dad Uther during his younger days, as he fought to reunite with his merry band…
Games that reward your time are few and far between nowadays. With a mountain of grind-heavy collect-a-ton experiences out there, so when a short but extremely sweet game like The Gardens Between comes along, it’s bound to raise some eyebrows. It’s a puzzler that plays with time travelling and doesn’t go too out of its…
Comic book fans have had to suffer through abysmal videogame portrayals of their favorite characters for years before some of the best titles like Batman: Arkham Asylum and now Marvel’s Spider-Man came along. It’s certainly a great time to be a fan of superheroes, and as the latest Spider-Man game proves, even people who aren’t…
If you can accept the grind for what it is, there’s a lot to enjoy in Graveyard Keeper.
Translating tailor-made computer games to consoles is a difficult task, as the many attempts to bring those tried and true titles to another platform over the years that have turned out to be less than stellar can attest to. So it comes as a big surprise that Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin 2 made such…
