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HomepageAnd really, when the crashes look like simple physics experiments from the late-90s that can trigger from the slightest of scrapes – it was destined to fall short of hitting its lofty Burnout spiritual successor goal.
As it stands it's is a ‘life sim' that could do with a little more of the former.
A city builder well worth visiting.
And now, we excitedly wait for Borderlands 3.
Above all though, it's understanding of the series long history and Clementine's journey making its final moments pack one hell of a bite.
If, like me, you’ve always just shied from games that punish for the sake of punishing, but thoroughly enjoy a story with mystery, excellent dialogue and unique fantastical components, Sekiro will punish, but it will also deliver in damascus folds. Folds upon folds. Prepare to die though, and much more than twice.
The Division 2 is not only a refined follow-up, it's the arguably the best ooter shooter' this generation has seen.
Zane rocks.
For everyone else though, there's value in seeing Capcom go back to the over-the-top well that is Devil May Cry and deliver one of the most stylish games we've played in a while.
Thankfully the Rallycross events, while fairly long due to the extensive qualifying rounds, offer an almost separate game to those of us who prefer to fling their rally-spec cars around a tight track, lap after lap after lap.
And it's here where once you understand the rhythm and feel of a level, the splashes of blood and primate rage truly becomes an instrument.
And like Trials and RedLynx, for that last joke, sorry not sorry.
It’s a shame then that everything surrounding this core feels so disjointed. A story that lacks momentum outside of a few moments, mission design that reveals all its nuance in a matter of minutes, and a cumbersome progression system interrupted by walls
Sadly, few locations in Crackdown 3 fit this profile.
Nothing in this new game-world actually really makes any sense, and Ubisoft Montreal isn't afraid to take that to a level we can all bite into, without really ever having any attachment to it.
That said, for the quick and obligatory surface level comparison: it's a dash of Fallout, a sprinkle of BioShock, some Dishonored for flavour and Thief to darken the edges. Yet still, all Metro Exodus.
This fledgling developer-publisher is on the right path to making a nostalgia-based name for itself if it stays this course.
It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but then again there isn't a great need for wheels when you're dancing between clouds.
The added tension of wondering if your crew has been infected by some sort of alien parasite – and then watching as your ship slowly becomes a scene from sci-fi horror film, is exhilarating.
Plenty of value if you’re a survival-horror/horror fan, or just a Resident Evil fan, but for mine -- a brand new experience would have been more welcome.