First Person Shooters

I started playing Quake 2 over 25 years ago and today I’m still at it – thanks to a collaboration between Nightdive Studios, id Software and Machine Games that unleashes a new iteration of the classic shooter. This new re-release boasts a wide range of new content and features, but fundamentally it’s designed to deliver […]

Red Dead Redemption is one of the highest-profile games that has been stuck on seventh-gen console hardware. Rockstar’s western epic released all the way back in 2010 on Xbox 360 and PS3, with no proper modern port or PC version to speak of. The best we’ve had has been backwards compatibility support for Xbox One

Better than Xbox 360, comparable to PS4. The release of Red Dead Redemption on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch opens the gates for more people to enjoy Rockstar’s wild west classic and the good news is that the Switch version is an excellent fit for the hardware. Expectations were higher for the PS4 version,

After five years of development, Immortals of Aveum has landed, with the distinction of being the first non-Epic game to ship on Unreal Engine 5 using all of its next generation features. There’s Nanite micro-geometry and ray-traced Lumen lighting, along with virtual shadow maps. Not only that, the developers are aiming for 60 frames

Expectations are enormous for Bethesda’s latest title, Starfield. It promises a galaxy-spanning adventure with a wealth of content and hundreds of planets to explore. Few games come anywhere near this kind of scope – and fewer still come with the high level of content quality and gameplay flexibility that Bethesda typically offers. But that’s

After an 11 year absence, the Armored Core series jet-boosts back into action with Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. And, given the huge success of Elden Ring last year, there is now of course heightened interest in developer From Software’s output, regardless of what form it takes. Armored Core 6 is a completely

Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most highly acclaimed games of the year, marrying the best of video games with the complexity and nuance of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It’s unashamedly a PC-centric title, with a dense interface and controls best suited for a computer keyboard so it’s not totally clear how well

RT is gone, performance improves – but some issues remain. Image credit: Respawn Entertainment/EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is arguably one of the most visually impressive console games this generation. Marrying extremely high-quality assets with excellent lighting and filmic post-processing, it’s easily the best that Star Wars has looked in the realm of real-time rendering

Mortal Kombat goes back to its roots with Mortal Kombat 1, a fresh reboot that delivers some of the most striking visuals seen from a fighting game to date. Lighting quality, materials across its detail-rich stages and motion capture are all brilliantly realised on Unreal Engine 4 here. It’s a big revamp over Mortal

Plus: has the 2.0 upgrade delivered tech improvements to the established game? Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way. First released in December 2020, the open-world RPG was saddled with technical issues, including bugs and very poor frame-rates on last-gen console systems. Sony even pulled the game from sale amidst a wave of negative feedback