April 2018 - Page 3 of 3

11Apr

By StuartNo Comments

For The King Ventures Out Of Early Access Next Week

Multi-award winning publisher Curve Digital, is pleased to announce that IronOak Games’ For the King will leave Steam Early Access on 19th April 2018. For the King is a rogue-like RPG adventure for which sees players journey into procedurally generated levels to avenge their recently murdered King. Mixing up a challenging blend of strategy, tabletop RPG, and rogue-like elements, For The King features both a single player experience as well as the ability for three heroes to play cooperatively both online and locally. Taking place in the gorgeous, hexagonal kingdom of Fahrul, players must strategically explore and battle their way through the fairytale, stylized landscape in a bid to discover and survive, lest they succumb to death. The game’s short run in Early Access allowed for...

Time Carnage Review – Shooter With Attitude

11Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Time Carnage Review – Shooter With Attitude

What do a zombie, a velociraptor and a laser firing robot have in common? You are going to kill them all in Wales Interactive’s wave shooter with attitude – Time Carnage Coming out this week on PSVR, Oculus and Vive Time Carnage is a frantic wave shooter which specialises in its variety of weapons and change of locations. Wave Shooters are common on VR systems. As a game environment VR struggles to simulate natural movement and as we have seen in recent games like Bravo Team, failing to get a movement system right can damn your title’s chances of success and have it heading to the bargain shelf of your local CEX store quicker than a Kevin Spacey movie. https://youtu.be/srRwWOz25M4 Gameplay So if you can’t do movement well, create a game where you don’t need to move. Although there ...

The Bunker Review – Nuclear War Comes to Switch

9Apr

By StuartNo Comments

Switch Reviews

The Bunker Review – Nuclear War Comes to Switch

The Bunker from Wales Interactive has hit the Nintendo Switch, does the conversion to the plucky handheld add anything to the game, or is it just a standard port? Lets take a look and find out. Gameplay The Bunker is a psychological horror live action interactive film. Wow what a mouthful. You control John, the last survivor in a nuclear bunker. Going about your daily routine, which included eating on the toilet.....not strange at all. This daily routine gets thrown into chaos when an alarm goes off. It is your task to sort out the bunker and carry on surviving. While exploring The Bunker you get given some flashbacks which include repressed childhood memories, giving you an insight into what has happened in the bunker prior to you taking control of John. While its a psychological...

Double Kick Heroes Preview – Proper Death Metal

6Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Double Kick Heroes Preview – Proper Death Metal

Double Kick Heroes by French based developer Headbang Club who reside in a "dark garage filled with guitars, drums and beer corpses" located in "Hell's 6th circle" is a side scrolling zombie splattering game where Rock music is your key to your escape. Inspired by the dramatic worlds of Tarantino, King and Rodriguez, it is up to you to lead your dysfunctional band of rock musicians on a nightmarish roadtrip across the map while dismembering hordes of zombies that chase after your exclusively modded car, the Gundillac. Gameplay My initial thoughts when I first saw Double Kick Heroes was "Noooooo, not another pixel based game!" Having seen the strange popularity of the low-res graphic genre rise and rise since the introduction of Minecraft, many devs have adopted the blocky imagery wh...

Urban Trial Playground Review – Jump Jump Crash

5Apr

By StuartNo Comments

Switch Reviews

Urban Trial Playground Review – Jump Jump Crash

Urban Trial Playground is essentially the Nintendo Switch's very own stunt racer. Developed by Teyon and published by Tate Multimedia you need to backflip and wheelie your way to the finish line. So how does the game play? Lets head a bit further down the page and find out. Gameplay Urban Trial Playground is pretty straight forward in essence. You take on a number of runs in beautiful environments along the beaches of California. With each run comes a new challenge with a number of criteria to both get those elusive 5 stars as well as some coin for you to spend on upgrades to both your bike and upgrading your bikers threads. With the game being one of those easy to start, hard to master types you can rest assure that you are going to bail many many times. Add to that the independent f...

Train Sim World: Founders Edition – Will It Leave You Chuffed Or Steaming?

4Apr

By TristanNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Train Sim World: Founders Edition – Will It Leave You Chuffed Or Steaming?

Steaming onto Xbox One and Xbox One X comes Dovetail Games' Train Sim World: Founders Edition. Dovetail are already the kings of sims on the PC, but Train Sim World: Founders Edition marks their first foray into the world of consoles. The Train Sim World franchise is already well established on PC with a plethora of tracks, trains and DLC. Dovetail have taken their Great Western Express DLC from the PC as a base game to begin what is set to become an extensive train sim console franchise. So don your anorak, fill up your thermos with some weak lemon drink and channel your inner trainspotter and join me aboard Train Sim World: Founders Edition on the Xbox One. Gameplay The game starts with you having just been employed by Great Western Railways as a driver on the London Paddington to ...

Moss Review – Taking on the Fairytale Like a Moss

3Apr

By StuartNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Moss Review – Taking on the Fairytale Like a Moss

Out of all the launch games and experiences on PSVR Allumete stood out to me the most. If you didn’t know (and if that applies to you then I implore you to check it out!) Allumete is a short but innovative VR experience made by Penrose studios and is loosely based upon ‘The Little Match Girl’ by Hans Christian Anderson. In Allumete you witness the story of a young, homeless girl from, what can only be described as the viewpoint of an invisible and inquisitive giant. You don’t affect the story, nor do you play a part in it. You simply experience it by watching the story unfold on a beautifully detailed floating city. Allumette quickly became the PSVR showcase for my non VR owning friends. It was the go-to experience I first gave them when they put on the headset for the very first time. ...

Abandon Ship Review – A Kraken Good Time?

3Apr

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PC Reviews

Abandon Ship Review – A Kraken Good Time?

This year, there are two major nautical themed titles coming out (or have come out) that you’ve no doubt heard about. One of these is Sea of Thieves by Rare, which arrived in March, and then there’s Skull & Bones from Ubisoft due to land this Fall. Both looking to tackle different elements of being a sea-farer. Sea of Thieves bringing exploration to the main hull, and Skull & Bones manning the cannons for more combat focused gameplay. The real question is though, have you heard of the third nautical themed title coming out this year? Abandon Ship. Fireblade Software lower the sails and set off with their PC exclusive title, Abandon Ship bringing the management of a ship to the hands of wannabe Captain’s. Abandon Ship is a singleplayer only title, and takes heavy inspiration from...

Blasters of the Universe Review – Pew Pew Die

3Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

Blasters of the Universe Review – Pew Pew Die

[Advisory Warning: This review contains details which disclose that the reviewer is old enough to remember the 80’s. Reader discretion is advised.] Odd socks, impossibly large hair, guys in Porsches, women in shoulder pads and everyone wearing shades, all the time, even indoors. That was the 80’s. ET was everything, Transformers were huge, everyone listened to Madonna and Pop Tarts were considered the food of the future. Most video games could only be found in arcades and that is where this story begins. Back then the guns in video games had very little reference to real life. Overpowered guns fired impossibly large bullets that travelled visibly slowly across the screen, from hero to antagonist and vice versa. The aim of the game was nothing more than to dodge bullets and kill the bad ...