Ponder the orb. All around in Crackdown 2, as in the original game, there are agility orbs which permanently boost your powers when collected. Collect them and you…
There is a concept which rings somewhat true to me of an “anxious interval” in cultural nostalgia. As described by Elizabeth Sandifer citing Momus, the interval is “the…
Seven years and six games into the espionage of the Splinter Cell series, it was about time for the entry where Sam Fisher’s own organisation are turned against…
For the past month I have been playing Just Cause 2 alongside The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It’s been an interesting experience because it has…
I knew extremely little of Bad Company when I started Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ( basically that it was a first person shooter) and thought that I got…
Bioshock had big ideas of overturning standard approaches to video game storytelling, questioning philosophies, the horrors humanity can fall to, and the nature of free will. It even…
Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…