[ SOUTH Park doesn’t have a great history of licensed games, but the last few entries have been promising. South Park: Stick of Truth and South Park: Fractured But Whole gave fans like me exactly what they wanted, and felt like you had been inserted straight into an episode. 1 Sparse cutscenes can’t save from … Read more
[ PRINCESS Peach: Showtime is the first time the iconic princess has had a solo outing on a home console. Thematically, it does a great job of playing to Peach’s strengths, adding a new dimension to a typically one-note Mario character. 1 Princess Peach: Showtime sees Peach finally take center stage.Credit: Nintendo Every level is … Read more
[ RISE of the Ronin is the upcoming PlayStation exclusive soulslike that puts you in the heart of feudal Japan. Set in the Bakumatsu era, it has an East-meets-West vibe, as firearms mix with katana as they often did in the Boshin War. 1 The combat is where Rise of the Ronin shinesCredit: Team Ninja … Read more
[ THE WWE games have experienced highs and lows, but since the reinvention of the series with WWE 2K22, it has been one of the strongest sporting series available. Since then, WWE games have tried to improve and refine on the formula while adding some flashy new features. 1 WWE 2K24 has refined a number … Read more
[ ALMOST every new release these days seems to have some element of survival crafting to them. After all, Palworld is just Pokémon but with survival crafting, while Enshrouded is an RPG with survival crafting. 1 Nightingale’s portals adds variation to the worlds you can exploreCredit: Inflexion Games If we liked picking rocks and punching … Read more
[ UBISOFT knows how to make a spectacular pirate adventure, and this was proven with the hugely successful release of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. Taking its popular IP and putting a much-needed twist on it gave gamers exactly what they wanted. 1 Naval combat can’t beat a bit of swashbucklingCredit: Ubisoft This is where … Read more
[ SNOWRUNNER’S massive open world gave us Death Stranding vibes, and if you’ve played the latter you’ll know that’s a compliment. It put the MudRunner name on the map with millions of players and regular content updates to this day. 1 MudRunner doesn’t have the open world that the series needsCredit: Saber Interactive Thanks to … Read more
[ THERE is a reason that card games are still popular despite them being centuries old. Something about having the perfect hand to pull off your strategy is so hypnotising and has kept us reinventing ways to play cards for hundreds of years. 1 Balatro puts a new spin on standard PokerCredit: LocalThunk Poker has … Read more
[ THERE are many different kinds of games that I love, but above all, I love to be shown, not told. Video game stories are extremely important to me, and in particular, I enjoy a wordless story that I’m allowed to interpret myself. 2 Brothers tells a story without saying anything at allCredit: AvantGarden 2 … Read more
[ FROM the cinematic intro you can tell that Helldivers 2 is the type of blockbuster game you’d expect from Sony’s PlayStation Studios. It soon started trending online as a parody of over-the-top patriotism, except this war takes place in space. 1 Helldivers 2 sees you travel to multiple alien planetsCredit: Arrowhead Studios As a … Read more
