Richard Walker's Reviews
After two instalments of Danger Zone and one Dangerous Driving game, all of which were billed as spiritual successors to Burnout, developer Three F...
What is it about PowerWash Simulator 2 that keeps me coming back for more? Like the first game, it is, in essence, a first-person shooter, in which y...
To my mind, there are two types of vampire - mopey ones who while away their days languishing in a castle, and bloodsuckers who revel in their power a...
When it first launched, in 2009, Plants vs. Zombies became a permanent fixture in my household, as everyone got hooked on the simple tower-defence ga...
In 2004, the esoteric, weird and wonderful genius of creator Keita Takahashi brought us Katamari Damacy - a fantastically odd game in which you roll ...
Jeff Goldblum's a good sport, isn't he? Lending his voice to Jurassic World Evolution 3's CG intro sequence, he's also with you f...
This year has been a banner one for Ninja Gaiden games. Usually, the adage about buses involves two turning up at once, but 2025 has seen no fewer th...
In Little Rocket Lab, you return to the place where you grew up, to live with your aunty, after your mother's death. It's an oddly sombre s...
Murder is afoot in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, the latest adaptation of the celebrated crime author's mysteries from developer Microids ...
King of Meat is the name given to a brutal game show, in which contestants gear up to hack hordes of hapless skeletons and other monsters to bits. Int...
Ever since I first played Vampire Survivors three years ago, I've been bitten by the survivors-like/auto shooter/reverse shmup/whatever-the-hell...
Since Sonic Drift came to the Game Gear, in 1994, Sonic the Hedgehog has been zipping about the place in a vehicle of some sort, racing with his pals...
As another season of the beautiful game gets underway, so too does another season of EA Sports' FC franchise. FC 26 is the third iteration of the ...
Playing Borderlands 4 can be a bit of a rollercoaster. Often, it's a shot of unadulterated chaos: a gleefully gory cavalcade of bullets and bloo...
Karma: The Dark World is a psychological horror game that counts the works of late director David Lynch among its influences. So much so that one sequ...
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...