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Review Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (PS5) - A Disastrously Paced, Technical Mess of a Sequel

You're Phyred

Over its first couple of hours, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 does its best to convince you that it might actually be pretty good. Against all odds, this deeply troubled project could rise above expectations. But as the game's structure becomes more and more apparent, the real Bloodlines 2 shapes up to be a bit of a disaster...

• Fri 17th Oct 2025
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS5
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

Review Shadowrun Trilogy (PS5) - Great Value RPG Collection Is Rough and Ready

Let's run it

There's an awful lot to like about Shadowrun Trilogy — a chunky collection of three sci-fi-fantasy role-playing games available on PlayStation platforms for the first time. At its launch price of $39.99 / £34.99, you're getting good bang for your buck here, even if you'll have to endure some especially rough edges throughout all...

• Tue 21st Jun 2022
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS5
• Shadowrun Returns

Mini Review Crusader Kings III: Console Edition (PS5) - Strategic Royalty Rewards Patient Players

King me

Crusader Kings III is the kind of game that you could quite easily lose days, weeks, or even months to once you've wrapped your head around its many, many systems. It's a ridiculously in-depth strategy title — the kind that you rarely see on consoles — but port studio Lab42 has done a solid job of making the whole thing manageable on...

• Tue 29th Mar 2022
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS5
• Crusader Kings III: Console Edition

Review Empire of Sin (PS4) - Gangster Strategy Game Is a Broken Mess

The Sopran-oh-noes

What do you know about multiverse theory? We Wikipedia'd it before writing this review and we played BioShock Infinite a few years ago so we're practically scientists now. From what we've learned there's a good chance that there's alternate universes out there much like ours only different choices made along the way have altered...

• Mon 7th Dec 2020
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS4
• Empire of Sin

Review Cities: Skylines - A PS4 City Builder with Solid Foundations

Skyscraper

Republished on Wednesday 29th April 2020: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of May's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. In terms of city-building games, the PlayStation 4 – hell, every console in general – is pretty light. Simulation games as a whole seem to be married to...

• Wed 29th Apr 2020
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS4
• Cities Skylines

Review Surviving Mars (PS4)

Life on Mars

As entrepreneurial wunderkind Elon Musk reaches out to settle humans on Earth’s little red brother, mankind wonders what awaits us on that alien soil. How will we come to terms with our new existence as off-world colonists? What trials will we face? Well, if it turns out like our first forays onto crimson soil, we’ll scrap the first...

• Thu 15th Mar 2018
• Reviews
• Paradox Interactive
• PS4
• Surviving Mars