Richard Walker


Favorite Games:
  • Streets of Rage II
  • Resident Evil 2
  • Super Street Fighter II

523 games reviewed
75.6 average score
80 median score
56.0% of games recommended

Richard Walker's Reviews

A grizzled veteran of video games journalism, Rich is an ardent lover of all things video games-related. Since 2008, he's worked on a range of websites and magazines, from Playboy UK to X360, and a dozen other publications in between, before settling down at Xbox Achievements & PlayStation Trophies in 2009.

Murder is afoot in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, the latest adaptation of the celebrated crime author's mysteries from developer Microids ...

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Oct 2, 2025

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...

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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...

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Sep 23, 2025

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...

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Sep 19, 2025

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 ...

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Sep 19, 2025

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...

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Sep 16, 2025

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...

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80% - NBA 2K26
Sep 5, 2025

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...

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Sep 2, 2025

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...

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Sep 1, 2025

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...

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Aug 25, 2025

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...

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Aug 14, 2025

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...

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Aug 12, 2025

Viewfinder's puzzle conceit is an ingenious one. It revolves around using photographs, paintings, sketches, posters, and so on, which can be held...

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Aug 7, 2025

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...

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Jul 31, 2025

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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'...

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65% - Rematch
Jun 19, 2025

French developer Sloclap cut its teeth on martial arts games, with both Absolver and Sifu offering intricate fighting systems to master. From kung f...

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Jun 17, 2025

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...

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