JB_Whiting

Don't expect anything in the ball park of Chaos Theory, or even Black List - that Ubisoft ship sailed long ago.

Do expect a shoddy, half-broken mess with graphics 10 years out of date. I think I'm right in saying we'd all rather have a remaster of the original three.

On the optimistic side, if they can edge it closer to The Division than say.... Breakpoint (barf) then maybe it has a chance.

@PhantomMenace84 Whoa what's he done? God he's not a hardcore conservative is he?

He shows his dramatic range in Devs and Hearts Beat Loud so his casting is awesome news.

@Golem25 I'd say no but then I saw the trailer and it looks pretty dope to me!

It was an incredible experience: both haunting - made me slightly uneasy in places - and achingly beautiful. I love the fact that you "discover" certain rooms and can easily miss others. I did 2 playthroughs and still think I missed bits.

Wonderful work from Yorke and Stanley Donwood.

I hope it drops on Plus - I'm as big as an OG Terminator fan as much as the next guy (yes I like Dark Fate, yes I hate Genysis), and what I hear from some fans saying it's a genuinely faithful experience - yet when I see it in action it just looks too janky to enjoy.

@KilloWertz I shared your thoughts after the beta myself, but I was completely turned around with the full release, it really is SO much fun.

The card system is fantastic, and adds a much needed depth to what L4D had, which as wonderful as that game is, seems quaint, and overly simple today. There's a layer of strategy and team synergy that wasn't there before. Having trouble on a level? Why not try mixing up your decks instead of banging your head against a wall over and over again in hopes of getting through it.

But these constant updates, nerfs, buffs, tweaks to difficulty, is going to get annoying.

So let me get this straight - R* hired these Grove Street Games to oversee this Definitiv release of their classics? And these guys I've heard, aren't exactly the bastion of remaster development, to put it mildly.

Someone get Bluepoint on the phone... oh wait, that would cost Take Two too much money.

@The_Pixel_King I'm surprised an impressions video swayed you; the Souls series really isn't something that can lull you in by watching other people play it. You have to dive head first in yourself; you'll soon discover if you love or hate it.

Also, you own the DS remake and have yet to taste its brilliance? What are you waiting for!

Unstable performance, missing songs, removing the originals from the store, asking for sixty quid... "Definitive" my arse! What a joke.

Looks even more embarrassing when you put this along side Mass Effect LE. Hell, even Ninja Gaiden trilogy was £30.

I saw that people are selling their codes on ebay for up to £300! As much as I'm looking forward to jumping in, part of me wishes I went for the cash instead! (too late though, I punched the code into my PS5 immediately.)

@MaccaMUFC Because they're charging an obscenely high price for it? There isn't much to defend here.

@Telekill I think he meant Sonic Team's attempt at 2D - as in their lame 2.5 segments from Generations, Forces et al. I'd rather they just stick to the Adventure style gameplay.

Nothing will touch Mania for 2D interpretation anyway.

Email just came through. Lands Between here we come!

If Sonic Forces was anything to go by, this will stink.

Sonic Team, and by extension, Sega, have no idea what to do with their mascot. They're just coasting (exploiting) on their weirdly obsessive fanbase. The fact that Sega cut ties with Sonic Mania's developers over the direction of its potential sequel, says all you need to know really.

Quality mode in DS remake gave me nausea after 5 seconds - I think they only put it in there for screen-grabs and photo mode - they said so themselves not to play on that setting.

Let's hope Elden Ring's performance mode is 1440p at the very least!

Game Informer once again handing out 9s like it's candy. It's disheartening to see CoD games consistently sit in the 80s on Metacritic and Opencritic, encouraging Acti to not really take any risks or evolve the series in any meaningful way.

I still think Infinite Warfare had the best campaign in a while.

@Zuljaras Hypothetically speaking, let's say, if Leon was cast "accurately", aka a white guy, but wasn't in his RPD uniform, maybe he was in civilian clothes, would you immediately recognise him then?

My point is, I think the costumes do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of mirroring their game counterparts. Many, many, many characters from fictional sources have had race and gender variations in film, this is no different. I honestly don't see a problem here.

Can anyone enlighten me on this "terrible casting"? I find the more glaring issue to be that it looks like cheap trash.

EDIT. Hold up... Are people really turning this into a race thing?!

@_seneka I get where you're coming from. While I don't agree it looks worse than BB - remember that has awful frame pacing, causing unwanted stuttering, and this will run at 4K/60fps on current gen - I think the problem is getting it to work across old hardware; I mean I understand why, Souls series is a cash cow for Bandai Namco, makes business sense. Lets just thank From for giving us such lush art direction to distract from the creaky engine!

Does anyone know why there is no physical edition? 50 quid seems pretty steep.

Guardians is a solid game (about half way through), but I don't quite share the showering of praise it's receiving. 90% of the game is walking, talking, occasionally squeezing through cracks in walls, and sliding down slopes. Of the six or so hours I've put into it, I reckon about 20 minutes of that was actual combat.

Also the PS5 optimisation is a mess, 1080p in performance mode, I mean c'mon!

@Would_you_kindly Oh damn. Wait, so you can't have just MW and just Warzone as its standalone download separate on a hard drive?! That's.... that's so Activision, UGH.

@Would_you_kindly It's separate from MW.

@Northern_munkey So the group photo in the "Cosby Suite", along with numerous emails that you can read, aren't enough for you to at least pass some judgement ahead of the trial's conclusion?

@nathanSF Oh my mistake! I just saw the name and assumed Iron Maiden bassist xD

@nathanSF Haha. Wrong Steve Harris.

I picked it up after the positive reviews but so far I'm less impressed; hopefully it gets less linear and scripted (seriously, can games stop with wrestling the controls away from me) after the first level.

@Northern_munkey The allegations are numerous and pretty substantial. There wouldn't be this huge investigation if it was all just hearsay.

Hold your horses people! The visuals are exquisite but let's wait to see what the in-depth gameplay brings us. Could be another "Below" - beautiful but ultimately disappointing!

Never dive blindly into a game xD

"Hey we want players to feedback on whether they prefer Specialists or traditional classes!"

*survey overwhelmingly favours traditional classes *

"Hey so we've listened to the feedback and we're doubling down on Specialists"

The wider problem is that Sony is clearly NOT targeting this at the Uncharted core fans, but at the casual audience; hence why we have Tom and not say, Nathan Fillion. As much as studios bang on about being "for the fans", it's predominately the non fans that will drive its success.

That and it just looks wishy washy. It doesn't help that everything looks too "clean" and digital. Overuse of CGI in these adventure films are really starting to wear me down.

@Jtheripper Dude grab the HD trilogy, skip 2 though, it's an abomination!

(my avatar is Nero from 4, because I have platinum hair and always where headphones for work so, yeah lol)

@MFTWrecks You've pretty much described Phantom Pain. Now THAT'S a game I'd be more than happy for SC to replicate.

Create your own "Sam Fisher" avatar (male or female); open-world setting; icons galore; radio towers; strongholds; "down with the kids" "humour" (written by middle-age execs); skill trees; XP boosters; enemy health bars etc etc.

@nessisonett The card system appeared to be pointless, at least at first glance (in the beta), but a few hours into the campaign and you start to make some really interesting decks that work as fun modifiers for a run. Think of it as a bit like a roguelite: you start out kinda weak with a few basic cards, then as you acquire (or purchase) more powerful ones, you start to build a wildly fun deck where you have full control of how you want your character's build to be. Even failure in a run still grants you points and cards that carry over. The card aspect has ended being the most fun and engaging aspect of the game for me!

Watching this convoluted mess makes me thankful we have more straightforward zombie alternatives like WWZ and now B4B.

Yikes that is one generic a$$ looking game. Health bars and map icon overload.

It's the ultimate comeback. Yoshi P is our Lord and Saviour.

Reality came crashing down on me after about 10 minutes with the beta. EVERYTHING felt off - like someone other than DICE having a crack at BF and fumbling. The movement (too fast and frantic), shooting (lack of weight and impact), HUD (messy and confusing) and sound just didn't click, and lacked that BF feel.

In my experience with betas, the final game is only marginally different. They're going to have to do some major overhaul to the game's core mechanics in the next few weeks to get this to a place where I can call it a worthy BF sequel.

@somnambulance I would have echoed your sentiment had I not played the 2042 beta; man, that was pretty rough. Never thought I'd say it but if I had to pick between the two, at the moment Vanguard would just inch out.

I mean I don't really want either anymore, but hypothetically.

Don't get your hopes up guys - this is post GTAV Rockstar we're dealing with. This will be a slightly tweaked port at best.

@tameshiyaku Yeah I think took off after The Social Network used a choir cover of Radiohead's Creep. That was a genuine shift in trailer design (along with Inception's BWAAAHHM). But now studios just throw any old song in there and hope it works. This one does not.

Yeessh. That was, something. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. I mean the song choice is super weird - just the cutting in general actually - such a sloppy trailer.

I'm worried that covering RE 1 & 2 in like 90 minutes means there's not a lot of room for tension building. Still, grab a few beers and mates and this could be so bad it's good entertainment.

@Hatsune_Miku Sorry if I sound rude but, if you don't part with your cash now for games that are way down the line, then you'll be able to get these new releases?

I don't understand pre-ordering myself, especially when they ask for payment upfront.

@tatsumi As someone who's played all instalments since the PC original, I'm burnt out by Far Cry just being "Far Cry"; I'm expecting - more hoping - that the series would involve into something interesting. After the first reveal teaser for 6 I thought, hmm maybe they're going in a different, more narratively engaging direction. But nope it's more tonal inconsistencies and a truck load of filler activities, so I might pass on this one. Each to their own though!

Dipped into the new demo and while it's pretty much the same as the one released earlier, i'm still having a ton of fun with it.

For those hoping for any visual improvements, you won't find them here - I'm playing it on PS5 in "Performance" mode and there are frame drops GALORE, it can barely hold onto 60fps, coupled that with the 360/PS3 era graphics and really does hurt the eyes. I do get serious double-A vibes with this one, which is a shame as it has a £60 price tag.

Having said that the gameplay is super absorbing and addicting; the combat is fun and intense and the Job system is deep and rewarding. Fans of Nioh and Souls games in general will have a blast. I can't wait to grab it.

@kyleforrester87 Everything is still awesome over in Eorzea

The FUT fiasco really should me more front and centre in the review, not just tacked on as a "con". But I understand at this point, there's no getting through to those who are willing to waste their money.

Let's just hope these laws get passed sooner rather than later. Then maybe EA will have to re-think Fifa 23.

@TrueShotta904 It's not even the XL version! I had to do a double take; thought it was 11 at first.

Literally couldn't find a single game in there I would want to play.

@Dezzy70 Why was I expecting your comment to rhyme?