Tag Archives: Adventure

You know how old VHS rental tapes had the blurb on the back that made sure to tell you what great films the stars had been in before? It’s a neat little trick to make you feel in safe hands with something totally unfamiliar. It seems like ReCore is that …

The Tomorrow Children is a machine, and you are but a tiny part of its function. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, this game has no heroes – you’re not even human. Long ago humanity perverted itself into a single, massive superorganism, manifesting as a cloudy white mass that stretches out …

There will be time to tear your hair out over The Witness’ 677 puzzles later. For now, sit back for a relaxing bird’s eye view of a stretch of the island, and try not to focus too hard on the many black panels just waiting to receive your inscrutable input. …

A Croft’s work is never done As Lara watches the sun set on her bloody, life-changing escapades in the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot, she shrugs off the idea of ever going home. She’s not just being metaphorical about it either: in Rise of the Tomb Raider she’s in the thick …

Verbal communication isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask anyone who’s endured the rancid stench of a stranger’s halitosis – also known as ‘paying the iron price’ for the last free seat on the bus. In keeping with our species’ tendency to ruin every innovative idea – from …

When Naughty Dog showed the first trailer for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune at E3 2006 (where it shared the stage with Giant Enemy Crab (opens in new tab)), it was a sharp turn for the Jak & Daxter studio. Naughty Dog had traded cartoony action platforming for a modern-day Indiana Jones …

When dinosurs aren’t eating people, they can be nibbling on other things that don’t quite agree with them, and it turns out that Jurassic Park is having a bit of a epidemic. It’s up to you to dive into dino droppings and figure out how to cure them. Table of …

If you pay close attention in Bloodborne, you learn that a werewolf’s ultimate weakness isn’t quicksilver or wolfsbane – it’s doors. Specifically, it’s doorframes that are too big for their hulking bodies to fit through. You can stand on the other side and comfortably hack them to death without any …

Journey (opens in new tab) is in a weird place on PS4. Its transition to Sony’s new hardware very much mirrors the experience of its nameless protagonist… everything within the game looks very familiar, but the way it’s actually viewed on this second outing is very, very different. Many people …

Oh, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Why do we love you so? Well probably being one of the best games ever made probably has something to do with it. And we’re not the only ones – Nolan North, the man behind Nathan Drake’s voicebox and swagger also has a soft spot …