Star Wars has returned. Spirits dampened by the prequels have been re-ignited by the new hope of a JJ Abrams-helmed, George Lucas-free trilogy, and Jar Jar Binks will soon be nothing more than a fading memory. What better way to…
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We’re creeping up on the two-year anniversary since Rockstar Games launched GTA V on PS3 and Xbox 360. In the meantime we’ve had shiny new PS4, Xbox One and PC versions, and a glut of improvements to the Online side of things, i…
When it comes to Rainbow Six Siege , one thing is for sure: it’s going to be completely different from the likes of Call Of Duty and Battlefield. Sure, those two titles have their differences, but Rainbow Six stands alone in the …
If the main criticism of the Call Of Duty series is that it lacks originality, then the reveal of Black Ops III isn’t going to help matters. Our first significant exposure to the game came in the form of a trailer that could hav…
Games sure do take you to some grim places. Whether it’s nomming on your crew in Sunless Sea or robbing from pensioners in This War Of Mine, we’ve done some pretty despicable things in order to survive. In Sheltered , the latest …
The downpour pitter-patters a tiny cacophony on our helmet as droplets stream down the visor. It is, as you can guess, raining, but this isn’t any rain. F1 2015 has some of the best falling water we’ve seen in a videogame: wheel…
A long time ago, in a gaming-verse not so far, far away, Free Radical Design’s Star Wars: Battlefront III died an unceremonious death, reportedly cancelled by LucasArts at the eleventh hour “for financial reasons”. Millions of f…
The future isn’t quite what we’d expected, if we’re being honest. It used to be a given that when a new Sony console was on the way, there would be a WipEout game in development to accompany it, showing off an exciting vision of …
Providing an initial sense of purpose is something that grand-scale RPGs have historically struggled to do. For all the merits of The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age and Final Fantasy, it’s not unusual for their opening hours to be mar…
Cybernetic enhancement, nanotechnology and combat androids you’d be forgiven for thinking we were talking about the new Deus Ex game (flip that page!) rather than the latest Call Of Duty. Keen to one-up last year’s Advanced Warfa…
Having a robot arm would be brilliant. Just imagine: giving your enemies a super-strength slap in the chops, winning every arm-wrestle, lifting even the heaviest bag of shopping with ease endless fun. Perhaps less so, however, in…
It got delayed?! Why not just Batarang me in the face, hey? It’s tempting, but nah, we won’t do that how would you play Batman when the game finally launches on 23 june? To distract you from these dark and troubling thoughts, roc…
Technomancer? I hardly know her. Very funny. It’s a curious word, to be sure, and one that refers to a band of mystical super-soldiers able to harness the power of electricity. You play as a ‘Mancer on the run from the secret pol…
It doesn’t take an expert industry analyst to explain why your once treasured plastic axe has been gathering dust for the last few years. guitar hero sparked a revolution in 2005 that extended beyond the realm of gamers, but over…
This year’s entry in Codemaster’s F1 series marks a change in pace in more ways than one. First and foremost, F1 2015 is the series’ PS4 and Xbox One debut, and benefits from the use of an updated version of the company’s Ego Eng…
You know it, we know it, Visceral knows it, EA knows it: Battlefield is renowned for its exceptional multiplayer and that’s precisely what everyone is looking for whenever a new entry comes along. In some respects, Visceral’s fir…
If there’s one thing we love here on Play, it’s rhythm action games. Having grown up on a diet of PaRappa, Vib Ribbon and Dancing Stage, witnessing the rock takeover of the genre through Guitar Hero was a wonderful thing for us. …
