I’ll admit it: I’m spoiled. When it comes to games, if I’m not given the option to change certain basic things, it can ruin the experience. Such is the case with FAST Racing Neo, a futuristic racing game for WiiU. Though it has solid controls, good courses, and a real sense of speed, it’s somewhat undermined by a lack of sound, view, and control options.
Since it was first announced, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) has been presented as a multiplayer-centric first-person shooter. Which was a big disappointment to those of us who really enjoyed the story-driven campaigns in its predecessors, Rainbow Six Vegas and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. But with the game featuring a solo section called “Situations,” as well as options to play the mode “Terrorist Hunt” on your own, I decided to see if there was enough to this game to make it worthwhile for those who don’t play well with others.
As a fan of ’80s action flicks who saw actually some of them in theaters, I’ve always appreciated what Avalanche Studios have tried to do in their over-the-top, action-packed Just Cause games, even when I haven’t liked them. But while it has some new wrinkles and some old problems, Just Cause 3 (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC) still manages to be as much fun as a flick from when Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, and Bruce Willis weren’t too old for this shit.
Threezero have announced that they will release a 1/6th scale collectible figure of the character Prophet from the Crysis games this December, with the pre-sale starting Thursday, December 3rd at 8:00PM EST/5:00PM PST.
UPDATE: This figure is now out, and can be purchased through Amazon here. Original story continues below.
Funko have announced that they will release a series of Fallout 4 POP! toys this February.
In a year that’s already seen such great open world games as Batman: Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, the idea of wandering around another vast landscape might seem like a bit much. But Fallout 4 (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC) is such an engaging, addictive, sprawling adventure that it not only trumps them all, it’s easily one of the best games of the year.
When it came out in 2013, Tomb Raider rebooted this third-person action series in such grand style that it was easily one of that year’s best games. So it should come as no surprise that its sequel, Rise Of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One, Xbox 360…for now), largely follows the same template, and is thus not only as invigorating and addictive, but is also easily one of this year’s best games.
When it comes to racing games, there are three elements you have to get right: the controls, the courses, and the competition. But while the new Need For Speed (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) nails the first two, it fails at the third, which ruins the game and makes this one of the year’s bigger disappointments.
Since its inception, the Halo series has always made incremental but significant changes to its sci-fi first-person shooter tenets. But while the ones in Halo 5: Guardians (Xbox One) are a bit more fundamental, this ends up being just another Halo game…albeit with all the usual good times that implies.