From Square-Enix’s legendary Final Fantasy VII through to Larian’s superlative Baldur’s Gate 3, the turn-based RPG genre has seen its fair share of heady, high-calibre offerings that have in turn (pun intended) redefined and elevated the concept of the humble turn-based RPG. The debut title...
Commanding a fiercely passionate player base, Killing Floor 2 remains to this day a superb example of how to craft a compelling, cooperative focused online shooter with depth to spare. With nearly a decade on the clock since the release of Killing Floor 2 and with the release of its sequel,...
Going hand in hand with its pitch-black narrative, it’s fair to say that few video games deal in the currency of violence quite as generously as Naughty Dog’s seminal opus, The Last of Us Part II. If violence is a sin, then the devil is most certainly in the details since while a cursory...
Since its inception, the Silent Hill franchise has largely unfolded its grim and murky narratives within the borders of the United States of America. Indeed, last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake did a fantastic job of ramming home the effectiveness of its setting, with protagonist James Sunderland...
It has been *check notes* nearly a whole decade since the last offline single-player Fallout title graced our hands, eyeballs and ear holes. Exceptional standalone modding efforts aside, it still surprises me that given the creatively fertile width and breadth of the Fallout franchise, the series...
Whoever thought that playing an incandescently furious and vengeful Demi-god hellbent on murdering a veritable pantheon of deities could be so much fun? Well, Sony Santa Monica did back in 2005, when the Californian studio unleashed God of War upon PlayStation 2 owners to overwhelming critical and...
Critically and commercially beloved the world over, the Monster Hunter franchise is set to unleash its most ambitious offering yet in Monster Hunter Wilds. Second only to the juggernaut Resident Evil franchise in lifetime sales, it’s fair to say that Capcom’s long-running Monster Hunter series...
The notion of dual protagonists in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed games is hardly a novel one. Indeed, the whole concept debuted nearly ten years ago in 2015’s Victorian London set Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and arguably provided something of a breath of fresh air from the series'...
From The Usual Suspects to Oldboy (the Korean original, obviously) and everything in between, there is certainly no shortage of classic movies that boast some truly jaw-dropping twists that upend everything you thought you knew. The same also happens to be true of narratives in video games, as...
Arguably one of the best commercially and critically received superhero series of all time, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 puts an emphatic exclamation mark on that statement. Not only does Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 dramatically raise the stakes compared to the previous two games in the series, but a...
Deserving of the Game of the Year award haul that was scooped up back in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was the sort of open-world, no-fantasy, historical fiction RPG that folks had long yearned for. With Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now upon us nearly six and a half years later and already...
The cascading effect that Sega’s Virtua Fighter franchise has had on the fighting game genre cannot be understated. With the first Virtua Fighter title hitting the arcades all the way back in the dark mists of October 1993 (more than a year before the first Tekken title would make its arcade...
