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Review Evil West (PS5) - Dumb Vampire Slaying Fun Certainly Doesn't Suck

Full-blooded

While there has been something of a resurgence in 'AA' titles over recent years, games like Evil West still don't come around all that often. Schlocky, violent, and just dumb fun, it's a linear action game with a heavy focus on an ever-expanding combat system. It's also got big early 2000s vibes, with characters that have cartoonishly...

• Mon 21st Nov 2022
• Reviews
• Focus Entertainment
• PS5
• Evil West

Review Trek to Yomi (PS5) - Short Samurai Slasher Thrives on Amazing Atmosphere

Highway to hell

Trek to Yomi isn't much of a trek, to be honest. This tribute to classic samurai cinema is only a few hours long at most, taking place across just a handful of story chapters. But what Trek to Yomi lacks in longevity, it makes up for in sheer atmosphere and spectacle. It's a superbly crafted indie adventure from a visual point of...

• Thu 5th May 2022
• Reviews
• Devolver Digital
• PS5
• Trek to Yomi

Mini Review Shadow Warrior 3 (PS4) - A Very 2014 Shooter

Wang gang

Shadow Warrior 3 might be set in the demon-ravaged ruins of a futuristic Japan, but the game itself feels like a return to the early 2010s. Protagonist Lo Wang is constantly quipping, breaking the fourth wall and using his own name for dick jokes as he auditions to be the next Ryan Reynolds. There's parkour, grappling hooks, and an...

• Fri 4th Mar 2022
• Reviews
• Devolver Digital
• PS4
• Shadow Warrior 3

Review Shadow Warrior (PlayStation 4)

Crouching tiger, hidden Wang

Take those old kung-fu movies that get repeated endlessly on daytime cable channels, add a dash of retro shooter and whatever random bits of supernatural plot you have lying around, and that’s Shadow Warrior. An overpriced product of a bygone era, its attempts to highlight the way that things used to be do little but...

• Mon 27th Oct 2014
• Reviews
• Devolver Digital
• PS4
• Shadow Warrior