A year ago, or thereabouts, I started writing an article for Cane and Rinse about the Uncharted series and how I wished those games would go on forever. How the […]
Author: Brian Tarran
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Brian Tarran loses himself in the latest entry in BioWare’s Dragon Age series. You know those games: the ones that are so brilliant that when you start playing them you […]
The Wolf Among Us
The runaway success of The Walking Dead made Telltale Games an industry darling. But how does its fairy tale follow-up fare? Fresh from the mean streets of Fabletown, Brian Tarran […]
Alien: Isolation
In your living room, everyone can hear you scream. Brian Tarran reviews The Creative Assembly’s spiritual sequel to the classic space-based survival horror movie, Alien: Isolation The first time it […]
Strider
Brian Tarran slices and dices his way through the 2014 remake of the ninja action adventure. If the 2014 remake of Strider was a car, it would be a mid-range […]
Wolfenstein: The New Order
MachineGames has turned the prototypical first-person shooter into a stealth-action-adventure game – with surprising results. I would have loved to have been in the room when MachineGames, the developer of […]
Just Cause 2
The island of Panau is the perfect holiday destination – a place where anything goes, where the sky’s the limit; where the only thing keeping you grounded in Just Cause […]
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Raiden’s solo adventure might be cut from the Metal Gear cloth, but it offers a different slice of action to what we’ve seen before from the series. Fans of the […]
Thief
Eidos Montreal’s reboot of the Thief franchise is a tense, tactical sneak-a-thon for the most part – but it tries too hard to please everyone. I’ll state from the outset […]
Mirror’s Edge
A second run through DICE’s first-person parkour game confirms its status as a last-gen gem. If you’ve played Mirror’s Edge, you’ll know what it’s all about. You run. That’s what […]
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
If I’ve learnt anything from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, it’s that the pirate life definitely isn’t for me. Sure, it sounds thrilling. A wide, open world, ready to plunder. […]
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Few things are more comforting than the voice of Patrick Stewart. The fact that his narration is the first thing that greets you in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow lends an […]