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Ride 4 PC review

Milestone, free of the licencing restraints of their excellent MotoGP franchise give us more bikes to play with in Ride 4.

Motorcycle racing games are not for the faint-hearted. At best they are a punishing war of attrition with a fiendish learning curve that opens up into a rewarding experience, at worst they are a cartoonishly easy or frustratingly annoy mess.

Ride 4 navigates this narrow road dangerously close to losing balance. This is not a game where you can expect to pick up and play. Continue reading Ride 4 PC review

Art of Rally PC review

At a time when racing games are getting closer and closer to photoreal, it is getting harder and harder to tell them apart. Art of Rally bucks this trend with glorious stylised graphics and some great rally driving.

At first glance, Art of Rally very much reminds me of early 90s arcade racers, as pixels started to give way to real 3D graphics. But instead of being a technical limitation, the simplistic visuals of Art of Rally are a design choice and one that really makes the game special. Continue reading Art of Rally PC review

eFootball PES 2021 Season Update PS4/PC review

Football, as they say, is a funny old game. Konami’s naming convention for its eFootball PES 2021 Season Update is, to be frank, rather bizarre.

Whilst I’ve been away playing EA Sports’ FIFA with all it’s polish, licences players, teams, competitions and razzamatazz, Pro Evolution Soccer has evolved. Konami, it seems, unlike EA Games, have moved beyond the pretence that we are getting a new football game this year. Instead, what we have here is PES 2020, but updated with this year’s stats and Euro 2020. Continue reading eFootball PES 2021 Season Update PS4/PC review