Tag Archives: Adventure

When we Brits do the apocalypse, we do it in style. We’ll have none of this exploding petrol station nonsense, nor any of that revolver-touting, sunglasses-wearing, one-liner spouting poppycock. No, sir. We take our end times with no sugar and a stiff upper lip, thank you very much. We are, …

Love stinks I believe it was the great American poet J. Geils who once said: “You love her / And she loves him / And he loves somebody else / You just can’t win.” Yep, ever since humans have figured out what to do with their dangly bits, they’ve been …

It’s a big world out there If you can remember all the way back to Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, you might recall an email on an Abstergo bigwig’s computer that traces the geographical path of Desmond Miles’ family line. While some locations on the list were familiar, like Renaissance …

The latest Skylanders game is about trying new things. The Skylanders Trap Team goal: make the characters come off the screen and interact with the real world. Trap Team achieves this with ingenious peripheral design that allows characters to interact with players. With the new Traptanium Portal, dozens of new, …

Remember To The Moon (opens in new tab)? One of the saddest video games ever (opens in new tab)? Now that Freebird Games is releasing A Bird Story (opens in new tab) in November, I was just thinking to myself that I should go back and play To the Moon …

A treasure trove of gaming riches You probably heard all about the great big-name announcements that came out of Sony and Microsoft’s Gamescom press conferences. The Bloodbornes and Halos, the Uncharteds and the Tomb Raiders–great stuff, all of it. But both conferences contained lots of equally interesting games from smaller …

Do the creep It’s happened to all of us at some point. You pick up the latest E-rated mascot platformer and get ready to settle in for some family-friendly fun–and suddenly you jump out of your chair in disbelief as you stare at the monstrosity before you. This isn’t a …

A good mystery should keep you guessing until the very end. It should deliver a solution that defies your earlier instincts and speculation, while also making complete sense. Murdered: Soul Suspect does keep you guessing until the end, but for the wrong reason. You’ll wonder if and when Soul Suspect …

Try to ignore the stigma attached to this phrase: Kirby: Triple Deluxe is a straight platformer. It represents everything you’d expect from the genre, sticking two pink, sugar-coated fingers up at the rest of the gimmick-obsessed industry. Kirby walks, runs, and jumps through beautiful, vibrant 2.5D worlds so happily, you …

They’re a couple of misfits… Shooter, action-adventure, RPG, fighting as long as Ive been playing games, theyve all fit into a categorical genre that allows me to know what Im getting into before I even press Start. I knew Final Fantasy was a role-playing epic before I even opened the …