Tag Archives: Action

Don’t tempt me, Frodo! There’s nothing quite like a cool new concept to turn the head of an otherwise jaded gamer. In a world of samey spectacle and me-too marketing, the original idea is king, and always very, very welcome. Though it is a double-edged sword. Failing to follow through …

[Warning: Spoilers for Asura’s Wrath and the God of War series below.] I’ve never liked Kratos much, mostly because I’m not as impressed with him as God of War clearly wants me to be. Sure, it looks spectacular when he kills a Titan by jamming a two-story spike through its …

As nebulous a concept as a procedurally-generated spare exploration sim might sound on the surface, the closer we come to actually playing No Man’s Sky for real, the more developer Hello Games astounds us with new features and attractions (come on, you know you’re going to name a planet after …

If there’s one thing in this world we’re particularly partial to, it’s a good chinwag with Nolan North (especially if it includes how he was thrown about by a stuntman during the making of Uncharted 3). We’ve already In a previous issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the voice of Nathan …

T he Codec is the titanium-reinforced crutch of a series forever threatening to collapse under its mass of expository, acronym-laden dialogue. A direct line to Snake, Raiden, Big Boss and the player’s ears, the Codec offers a convenient means of dumping the vast swathes of information that never seem to …

Last month we spotted the ‘in game purchases optional’ line on the Metal Gear Solid 5 preorder page (opens in new tab). Konami has since confirmed that microtransactions will be present in the game and the focus is very much on the word optional. “There are some microtransactions involved in …

The Lab, which was formerly exclusive to GTA 5 (opens in new tab)’s PC version, will soon appear on radio dials everywhere – or everywhere in Los Santos and Blaine County, anyway. GTA 5’s console versions will get the new radio station along with the second part of the Ill-Gotten …

With some trepidation, I approach Anniversary the second time around. There’s a double dose of nostalgia lying in wait here, first for the console-defining original Tomb Raider and second for Crystal Dynamics’ outstanding remake, which, through my rose-tinted bifocals (available at selected opticians), is the series’ finest hour. Not to …

I know a few things about the town I’m currently destroying. It’s somewhere in the sun-kissed Republic of Medici, a tranquil and fictional Mediterranean nation dreamed up for Just Cause 3. I know that I, as series protagonist Rico Rodriguez, am supposed to be liberating it from a tyrannical dictator …

For those not versed in the psalms of Hoxton, Dallas, Wolf and Chains, Payday 2: Crimewave Edition is far from your average shooter. Sure, it’s in first-person and you do have plenty of boomsticks to your name, but the shootouts are merely a byproduct of being an armed robber. The …