Guardian's Reviews
This is a massive world, astonishingly rendered and seemingly limitless in its creative diversity
Creative Assembly/SegaThis sprawling medieval fantasy brings together romantic and classical strategy game design with spectacular results
I don’t think I’ve seen half of what Forbidden West has to offer. It bored me sometimes with endless dialogue and exposition, but is equally generous with things to do and places to explore and creatures to unwisely provoke. Unlike many open-world games it is continually offering you something new, and a couple of the tools you acquire later in the game really open the whole place up. It’s got the spirit of a Metroid or Tomb Raider-style puzzle adventure on the scale of an Assassin’s Creed. And once again: by god, it is beautiful. I’ll happily endure 10 minutes of being lectured about terraforming, in exchange for marvelling at these sunken caves, forbidding plains and mechanical T-rexes.
More than a quarter of a century since the cuddly critters were first sent in to battle, the magic of those early adventures has finally been recaptured
Spectacular gain is preceded by drawn-out pain in this martial arts adventure where fighting prowess is the carrot and ageing is the stick
For those feeling worn down by the daily grind, this calming skater, with popping pastel colours and a soothing soundtrack, is a charming alternative
With its special combos and metres, this frenetic and summery Air Hockey-style game has more in common with Street Fighter than with other sports games
If you've played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar
Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy get a joint re-release reminding us of the greatness of these bombastic action adventures.
This tense co-operative shooter is thoroughly entertaining, as much for the ideas it borrows as the ideas it comes up with
It looks and sounds basic, but the amount of effort, knowledge and understanding of the topic (and of game design and history more generally) that has gone into this mini museum is abundantly evident, from both the exhibits and the text that accompanies them. Like listening to someone talk about the PhD research they’re doing on a niche topic, it might sound boring at the outset, but by the end of an hour, you’ll come away with something you definitely didn’t know before.
The quick, free online word-guessing game designed as a present for one is proving a daily gift for all.
This endearing adventure feels like a fever-dream Flash game you discovered in the 00s and could never find again
Our compulsion for profit is smartly skewered by this simple game set in a trading-market where the currency is body parts
Soar across alien vistas powered only by kinetic energy in this interplanetary search for the mysterious, life-giving monolith
This unquestionably beautiful game about saving a planet from an encroaching black hole boldly goes where few have remained awake
The engrossing flagship Xbox shooter returns with its fabled craggy supersoldier and plenty of style but not quite enough bang.
The detective returns to his childhood island home to solve an elegant series of cases in this lively open-world story
In a series known for its scale and spectacle, climate change and technical issues are the new enemies
These remasters feel less stable than the glitchy originals, with a lack of attention to detail that undermines the games' character