Month: August 2024
Mainlining
Mainlining, currently in development by Rebelephant and published by Merge, is a game about hacking. However, unlike Introversion’s Uplink, which put you in the role of a hacker operating on...
The Division – Clear And Present Sum Of All Patriot Games
I used to be a casual Tom Clancy fan. I read all his books up to The Bear and The Dragon, then I just stopped. Not because I stopped liking...
Bacteria
Have you ever heard of the Game of Life? I don’t mean the Milton Bradley board game from the 1990s, where you had a little plastic car and your goal...
Binaries
Binaries is a puzzle platformer game developed and published by Ant Workshop Ltd. It is described on the Steam store page as “the world’s first concentration platformer”. I’m not entirely...
Companion Apps – Are they really all that bad?
For Gamer’s Quest this week I’m going to try something a bit different. Instead of telling you about a game I’ve been playing and how I’ve found it, I’m going...
Talisman: The Horus Heresy – I was there
There are many good things about being a reviewer for Final Boss Fight. One of the best is that we get early access versions of game for review. Now I...
Quantum Break – The Iceman Cometh
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An X-Man, a hobbit and the Master of Coin for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros walk into a time machine, and absolute havoc...
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
Well, it’s been a long wait, but the time is now upon us. The time when Abaddon the Despoiler will unleash his forces and strike forth from the Eye of...
Escape Close Call
Escape: Close Call at first glance reminded me of the original Grand Theft Auto. The top-down view of a car madly swerving around to escape the cops certainly helped, but...
Left 4 Dead 2 – What can go wrong?
Let me make one or two things clear right at the start. I’ve never actually played Left 4 Dead 2 before. I’ve played a few campaigns of Left 4 Dead...
Dungenious
Dungenious is a mobile game from Noizoo Games that combines an educational quiz game with a dungeon crawling roguelike. The website – www.dungenious.com – invites you to “challenge your knowledge...
Choppa
First of all, let me say that I have not played Choplifter. I never owned a Sega Master System – or any other console or device it was available on...
Sniper Rifles – Reach Out And Touch Someone
Whenever I play an action adventure game I always think about the approach I want to take and the character I want to play. In the past I preferred characters...
M – Road warrior is on the hunt
Ahoy hoy fellow gamers, Doom enthusiasts, Halo ESporter’s and the community of Twitter. It’s that time of the month again where we delve into the hell spawned vault of despair,...
The Minims: A New Beginning
This one’s a bit of a change of pace. Rather than games where you shoot your way through hordes of enemies, fly mammoth spaceships against evil aliens or even face...
Coffin Dodgers
Coffin Dodgers is a racing game by Milky Tea Studios. Eight racers battle for first place, picking up and using various powerups to give themselves a boost or to disrupt...
Halo 5: Guardians – Paper-thin Armour
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the Master Chief. The hero of the Halo series. A one-man unstoppable force who has mown down armies of aliens, parasites and ancient AIs....
Plot Twists – Nothing’s the same anymore
One thing I am a huge fan of in games is a well-executed plot twist. I’m not just talking about stories that finish with a massive reveal or a whodunnit...