April2024
Review TopSpin 2K25 (Xbox) - A Worthy Sequel To A Legendary Tennis Game
13 years later, it's finally returned!
When it comes to tennis games on Xbox, it's been a pretty rough decade on the whole. The likes of AO Tennis 2 and Matchpoint: Tennis Championships have tried to fill in the void left by Top Spin and Virtua Tennis back in the Xbox 360 era, but the reality is that none of them have managed to replicate the...
Review LEGO 2K Drive (Xbox) - An Open World Racer Where Side Missions Shine
It's the taking part that counts
Update (Wed 3rd Apr, 2024): LEGO 2K Drive is now officially part of Xbox Game Pass, so we thought we'd re-share this review from last year so you know what to expect. If you have any questions, drop them in the comments below! <related ids="164277"> Original review (Wed 17th May, 2023): When 2K first...
March2024
Review WWE 2K24 (Xbox) - Just Like WrestleMania, This Series Continues To Get Bigger And Better
The bottom line, 'cause we said so
WrestleMania season is officially upon us, and 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of WWE's grandest event. Last year's show ended up being a memorable two-nighter in front of a combined attendance of over 134,000 people, and we're expecting WrestleMania 40 to eclipse that spectacle once again. That's pretty much what...
March2023
Review WWE 2K23 - A Wrestling Game Worthy Of 'Main Event' Status
The bottom line, 'cause we said so
Last year's WWE 2K22 was a very important release for the franchise, successfully overcoming the botched mess of a launch that was WWE 2K20, while also incorporating some key new features such as the addition of the MyGM and MyFaction modes, highly improved visuals, redesigned entrances and much more. WWE 2K23...
December2022
Review Marvel's Midnight Suns: Firaxis Serves Up Another Stellar Slice Of Tactical Turn-Based Action
Simply Marvellous
There aren't many more reliable development teams than Firaxis when it comes to serving up top-notch turn-based tactical action, and with Marvel's Midnight Suns, the Baltimore-based studio continues to deliver the good stuff. Here they've avoided a simple superhero reskin of their superlative XCOM series in favour of strategic...
September2022
Review NBA 2K23 - A Surprisingly Strong Season For Basketball Fans
A nostalgic trip through b-ball history
It's once again reached that time of year when another entry in the NBA 2K franchise slam-dunks onto our consoles and, yes, it's sometimes difficult to muster much excitement for these annual instalments, easy to dismiss them as just another incremental update that looks and plays almost identically to the...
June2022
Review The Quarry (Xbox for PC) - A Supermassive Return To Form
Teenage sicks right through the night
Disclaimer: We reviewed The Quarry on PC (Steam), as we were unable to obtain an Xbox review code ahead of time. Therefore, this review contains no details on the performance of the Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S versions. Fans of Supermassive Games' superlative 2015 interactive horror, Until Dawn, have had quite...
September2021
Review NBA 2K22 - Bringing Another Layer Of Next-Gen Polish To The Court
A next-gen slam dunk?
This review is based on the next-gen (Xbox Series X, Series S) version of NBA 2K22. With 2021/22’s NBA season not too far away from tipping off, a brand-new edition of NBA 2K makes its way onto next-gen consoles just in time to give b-ball fans a wealth of slam-dunking sports action to get stuck into. This time around...
November2020
Review NBA 2K21 Next-Gen - A Surprisingly Feature-Packed Upgrade For Series X
A net gain on next-gen
It’s an unwritten rule of next-gen gaming that a console must launch alongside at least one sports game, and that everyone must fawn over how it’s the best that sport has ever looked in video game form, but then acknowledge that the race to get it on next-gen invariably means modes have had to be dropped in the process...
