Richard Walker's Reviews
This year's NBA 2K opens with your MyPlayer character squaring up to cover athlete Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. He chooses a dream team comprising S...
It goes without saying that all of the best driving games have lovely buttery handling. The kind that makes you want to keep coming back for more, sim...
Hell is Us is a third-person action game built around the concept of "Player-Plattering," according to developer Rogue Factor. The idea is that yo...
In Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, protagonist Joe Musashi speaks only in monosyllabic grunts. You could see it as a mark of disdain for all the years SEG...
Sold as a slave by his father to toil in a sulphur mine, Mafia: The Old Country's protagonist, Enzo Favara, doesn't have the most glamorous...
Viewfinder's puzzle conceit is an ingenious one. It revolves around using photographs, paintings, sketches, posters, and so on, which can be held...
I have a soft spot, like a big glowing orange weak point, for arcade-era shoot 'em ups. Not that I'm much good at them, mind. There's j...
Killing Floor 3 is set seventy years after the events of Killing Floor 2. That might mean something, were the story a compelling reason to play the l...
RoboCop: Rogue City defied expectations by managing to be a recent movie adaptation that wasn't a big old pile of stinky poo. Developer Teyon had...
For my money, the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series peaked with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in 2001. It's the one game I played to death on ...
Roguelikes. I've never been particularly keen on them, and few games have managed to change my mind. Hades and Dead Cells I enjoyed, but I'...
French developer Sloclap cut its teeth on martial arts games, with both Absolver and Sifu offering intricate fighting systems to master. From kung f...
Remember the mess Federal Bureau of Control director Jesse Faden made in Control? I'll wager you didn't consider for a single moment who mi...
In Gex Trilogy, there is more than one reference to Austin Powers, which should give you some idea as to how much the series' humour has dated ...
Someone has clearly been watching Game of Thrones. Its grimy influence is felt throughout much of Final Fantasy XVI, from its warring kingdoms and tow...
If you've recently been exploring the verdant expanses of Cyrodiil, in the Oblivion remaster, you might consider giving Tainted Grail: The Fall...
Hot on the heels of the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, here comes EA Sports F1 25, the latest instalment in developer Codemasters' racing sim series, a...
Am I getting older, or are old games getting harder? The answer is both. I fondly remember romping through Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny when it...
In the window of my local CEX is a Dreamcast copy of Project Justice, marked for £180. It's been there for years, and, as it becomes increasing...
Ever wondered about where the DOOM Slayer (aka DOOM Guy) came from and what his deal is? Me neither, but developer id Software is here to tell you all...