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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Cricket 19 – The Official Game of the Ashes – OUT NOW
Big Ant Studios, in collaboration with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), is proud to announce Cricket 19 - The Official Game of the Ashes. Building on the fan-favourite Ashes Cricket, Cricket 19 features all formats of the international game, both men’s and women’s teams, and all host venues. This includes the Specsavers Ashes, fully licensed for both England and Australia. But that’s just scratching the surface of this year’s title. Deep enhancements to the AI engine mean that the opposition is more realistic than ever before. When bowling, the AI will suss out your player and team’s weaknesses, and target that with a concentrated bowling strategy. When batting, the AI will rotate the strike to protect weaker players, and actively look for gaps in the field. New features to be added to Cricket 19 include a scenario mode, which allows players to recreate the greatest matches in history, and then share them online to challenge other players to achieve difficult run-chases, or play out a draw from a disastrous situation. Enhancements to the career mode build a story around your player; how you look in the news headlines affects your potential career trajectory.
Far Cry Classic review
Far Cry is a very peculiar series of video games. Not in terms of its content, which often errs on the safe side of most first person shooter staples, but in the fact that none of its various sequels have anything to do with each other. Apart from being open world shooters there’s no connection in terms of story, characters, or even specific gameplay mechanics. Which is not a problem in itself but it does mean that going back to the original holds considerably less appeal than for most other franchises. As far as Ubisoft is concerned this is the first time that the original game has ever appeared on consoles, but that’s only true up to a point. Far Cry Instincts on the Xbox and Xbox 360 was somewhat abridged, and considerably more linear, but it was clearly still the same game, with the same plot. We’d also mention Far Cry Vengeance on the Wii, but to be honest it’d probably be best if all concerned forgot about that. The reason that Ubisoft has decided to create another, more exacting console version is that they’re also releasing Far Cry: The Wild Expedition this month, a compilation that contains all the mainline games and which seems to be writing Instincts, and its sequel Evolution, out of the history books. That’s fine and everything, but Far Cry was always less than perfect and the 10 years since its original release have not been particularly kind.
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Need for Speed: Heat review: The best Need for Speed this generation, but the formula's well-worn
There’s a new Need for Speed game out as of last Friday. I know, I’m as surprised as you are. I’ve seen a lot of games sent out to die, but Need for Speed: Heat has been basically shoved out an airlock into the vacuum of space. EA only showed it to people once, to my knowledge—at Gamescom, in Europe. It wasn’t at E3. It wasn’t at PAX. There was no two-weeks-prior event to build hype. We got review code on release day.
And I don’t really know why, either.
Need for Speed: Heat certainly doesn’t do anything especially new or innovative, but it’s a totally passable open-world racing game. Most years, that wouldn’t be enough—but there’s no Forza this year, neither a Forza 8 nor a Forza Horizon 5. Need for Speed: Heat takes the podium by default.
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