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… doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does stick spikes on the wheel and bungs a chain on the end.

Slick, responsive and utterly addictive …

… an undeniable pleasure and quite the delightful surprise …

… this is a game that absolutely delivers on the promise of its premise.

It would be fair to say that Ubisoft, the massive French studio behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six (to name but three of their bestselling franchises), have been

… the story is overlong and naff. And, sure, the difficulty lacks the prickly challenge of previous entries at launch. However, Monster Hunter Wilds showcases some of the best combat

Vast, engrossing, sharply written, stunningly detailed and quite gorgeous at times, it’s the very opposite of the generic slop that passes for open world games these days.

If you’re in the mood for some colourful hack and slash (or spell and dash) action through genuinely gorgeous environments with engaging boss fights and occasional story beats that land,

… an intriguing and engaging story expansion that offers a brilliant new character, a solid 15 hours of extra story content and a bunch of new weapons, armour and loot

Genuinely tense, fitfully scary, often bizarre, sad and even beautiful, Silent Hill 2 has lost none of its punch and remains one of the best survival horror video games ever