AO Tennis 2
The last tennis game I played was the rather disappointing Tennis World Tour that I reviewed here on Digitalchumps. To say it was a let-down is a bit of an understatement and as much as I tried I just couldn’t quite bring myself to love it. That being said, it didn’t dampen my desire to find a modern tennis game that could faithfully recreate the glorious game of tennis yet not be obtu...[Read More]
Football Manager 2020
Football Manager 2020 marks the series’ sweet sixteenth birthday. Since Sports Interactive’s separation from Eidos, and with it the Championship Manager name, the rebranded, yet utterly familiar series has marched ever onward as the unchallenged king of football management. Normally, being the only title in your field can lead to complacency — we’re looking at you WWE 2K20 — but ...[Read More]
WRC 8
It’s been a two year wait for WRC 7’s successor but it’s finally here and I’m glad to say, overall, it’s been worth the wait. Whilst KT Racing’s franchise has been the officially licensed series, it has been in the shadow of Codemaster’s revitalized Dirt series of games. However, after spending many hours intentionally going sideways, I can safely say that...[Read More]
F1 2019
Another year and another Formula 1 title from its gaming custodians, Codemasters. Last year’s effort was a solid entry into the series and maintained its delicate balance between being a simulation and enjoyable for the casual fan. However, in our summation we noted that whilst there were improvements it needed some decent updates in this year’s title for things to not stagnate. For th...[Read More]
Dirt Rally 2.0
It’s been three years since the soft reboot of Codemasters’ Dirt series of rally games with Dirt Rally and two years since its most recent entry in the form of Dirt 4. In an effort surely to confuse some, Codemasters recently released Dirt Rally 2.0 as a direct successor to Dirt Rally rather than the more arcade style Dirt 4. Number confusion aside I was eager to find out just how much...[Read More]
Football Manager 2019
Football Manager is a title that’s seen me through the best of times and the worst of times. Ever since my brother introduced me to the multi-disk Championship Manager on the Amiga I’ve been hooked. I wanted to play it so badly back then that I would often sneak up to my brother’s room when he was out, take a note of where everything was, play as long as I dared and made sure to ...[Read More]
F1 2018
Since Codemasters were granted the official license for Formula 1 and released their first title in 2009 they’ve slowly, but surely, built things up year on year. All this hard work came to fruition and made last year’s F1 2017 the best F1 title to date. It also showed that building things up over time can result in a solid title as opposed to one that rests on laurels given no other d...[Read More]
Tennis World Tour
Until recently, tennis was the forgotten child of the sports genre in gaming. A few years ago games such as the excellent Top Spin Tennis series graced the gaming landscape but since 2011’s excellent Top Spin 4 the genre has had a somewhat barren spell. This year, however, saw the arrival of AO Tennis at the start of the year and now Tennis World Tour (TWT). With the developers, Breakpoint, ...[Read More]
Overload
Successfully funded on Kickstarter and billed as the ‘ultimate six-degree-of-freedom shooter’ Overload, from developers Revival Productions, seeks to remind gamers of a genre I’d long since forgotten. Those of us who grew up gaming in the 90’s lived in a time where gaming development saw some pretty unique games many of which are looked back on with a certain fondness. One ...[Read More]
Extinction
I really, really wanted to like Extinction and for the first hour or so I genuinely did. However, the longer I played the more frustrated I got. Frustrated with the gameplay itself (which I’ll get to) but also frustrated with a game that has so much potential but fails to deliver. In Extinction you play as Avil, the world’s last Sentinel who are essentially very specialised soldiers. T...[Read More]
Destiny 2 (Xbox One)
The original, vanilla Destiny, was, to put it mildly, a disappointment. To be fair, Bungie had hyped things up to a point where it was almost guaranteed that the end product wasn’t going to live up to expectations. That being said, I don’t think anyone quite expected it to be as underwhelming as it was. Thankfully, over the course of its expansions, Destiny improved greatly and by the ...[Read More]
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Review
Say what you will about Tolkien’s sprawling Middle-Earth opus as, whether you’re captivated by it or not, there’s plenty of written history to explore and discover outside of the known Hobbit and Lord of the Rings stories. Tolkien’s legendarium mapped out plenty of Middle-Earth’s history and while it has plenty of gaps of its own (Tolkien died before any of the histor...[Read More]
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