Review

It was about an hour in, once we reached Heide’s Tower of Flame, when we realised that Scholar Of The First Sin is exactly what we wanted it to be. Essentially a rejig of the GamesMaster Game Of The Year 2014 winner we know and love, this current-gen re-release does …

Hang on. Trip’s dead? Why didn’t anybody mention it? Oh hang on – they did. In every bleedin’ scene. At least, that’s what it felt like at times. His death leads to mourning, to guilt, to anger, to accusations, to revenge. It also leads to some downright clunky dialogue and …

It’s never a good sign when you get stuck during a tutorial. Here, the introductory text is telling us to use the left analogue stick to roll and pitch our vehicle in mid-air. ‘The car’s response improves if you activate the jet or air brake’, we’re informed. Hang on a …

Last week’s episode delivered a couple of body blows with the deaths of Noah and Aiden. “Try” was less explosive, but almost as strong. While no one died, it was an hour steeped in tension. As that superb pre-titles sequence showed, people from both sides are quietly falling apart while …

“Oh mein Gott hast du das gesehen? Ich tötete ihn nur mit der zip-line hahaha!” This is the sound a mad German makes when he shoots and kills me with a zipline during a multiplayer match of Battlefield Hardline. I’m sitting opposite him, furious. 50 journalists from across Europe are …

Darkness stalls. Stretching roughly half of Suzanne Collins’ final Hunger Games book out to 118 minutes, Mockingjay – Part 1 proves to be something of a test for the franchise’s fanbase. In their co-commentary, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson congratulate themselves on expanding Collins’ passages about heroine Katniss …

Get ready to help devastate an entire forest by growing produce for your furry capitalist friends under the watchful eye of Mama – who is, of course, running this entire operation. Seeds of friendship are nowhere to be found, as your woodland neighbours only drop by for a stock refill. …

As boxed games go, this one is pushing even Street Fighter’s famed iterations for the ‘least amount of new content per release’ award. But nonetheless, it does represent the first time the Dead or Alive series has appeared on PS4 and Xbox One, so it’s a relatively big deal. Well. …

There is no end in sight to The Walking Dead. Gale Anne Hurd has talked about this thing running for years – and if you’ve seen the viewing figures, it’s obvious why. Still, if they were to wrap things up, an episode like ‘The Distance’ wouldn’t be a bad way …

Midseason finale “The Climb” flung down a serious gauntlet. Its weapons grade cliffhanger saw a freshly shish kebabed Oliver Queen tumbling over the edge of a snowy ravine, blood flooding from his mouth and his social calendar seemingly cancelled until further notice. He’d made the mistake of going up against …