BMW just played Spider-Man ads on the dashboards of any of their models built after 2020, if this is the future Sony can ram it. They’ve not poor / broke this is just rampant capitalism.
Such a massive cultural icon. You had to be a teenage boy in 1996 and the hype surrounding the original trilogy was something else…saying that I never played them! Was more into Resident Evil. Though the later Tomb Raider survivor / reboot trilogy was definitely my bag.
And boy was I wrong 😑 glad I paid a tenner, if I bought this day 1 full price I’d be pissed. Even 2 years later and various updates this games still a 6. It’s exactly what a Ubisoft game bolted to Star Wars sounds like… average / mediocre. Main issues:
Stealth is woeful, the NPCs are brain dead. The secret entrance to the base is always 5 meters to the left.
Graphics aren’t great, the female main lead looks badly rendered.
Plenty of member berries / nostalgia
Faction system is pointless and barely an inconvenience.
Missions are tedious. You get to point A only to need object X that’s at the other end of the map…thank god for fast travel.
Honestly, given my bias towards linear single player games, this is one that would have benefited from being stripped of its typical Ubisoft open world elements, you’re not really an outlaw and it feels like you should have played as Han or the ND-5. The plot twist at the end is painful and lame…for an outlaw the main character goes back to help a friend..and the rebellion…not something an outlaw would actually do.
Just finished the game…well not finished as the final boss battle absolutely sucks and they did the same boss battle twice in a row, so I gave up and watched on YouTube. Joining a very select few games where I’ve given up and deleted the game prior to the final level / boss.
It’s a shame pushsquare bans swearing as what I want to write and what I can write are not reflective of one another.
Doom is an ICONIC franchise! iCONIC. Responsible for the FPS genre on Pc all the way back in the early 90s, the studio is also responsible for wolfenstein (though they don’t currently design it).
The rebooted trilogy is an example of how to do an iconic series justice! You can see the love and dedication in all 3 of the games. All 3 games play uniquely- which we as gamers always claim to want more of e.g if you like fast paced, play eternal, want heavy and slow play Dark Ages, want sci fi setting play the 2016 version and that’s before we get to the awesome DLCs.
The rebooted handled the lore brilliantly e.g. flashbacks or documents. All 3 games combined are effectively a closed lore cycle and we as gamers got a beginning, middle and end to the Doomslayers story.
Microsoft should be ashamed at what they’ve done and should have sold it off rather than gutting it and turning it into a support studio!
The series made money, just not the 30% profit randomly picked as the new benchmark.
Thank you ID, you did amazing and deserved so much better.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this is the beginning of the end of Xbox, as I suspect if these cuts & closures don’t right the ship and return Xbox from a 3% margin, these cuts will act as a trimming of the fat to position Xbox being separated from MS and sold off as a separate entity.
Good. Ban it and include a course in how to navigate social media, fake news, AI slop before someone is allowed to navigate a mobile phone.
To all those moaning about the UK gov collecting info on you… you already hand that info over to google, Meta etc and they’re not your friends, your a data resource to them that is to be exploited.
Just bought it for a tenner on eBay. Look forward to jumping in now that it’s had a few patches / updates, the most recent comments indicate I might enjoy this more than its original score implies.
Bought this for £2 from eBay (due to this article) and just finished it. An interesting campaign, its tone is a bit all over the place. Starts of as Miami vice / CSI and all gritty. Then descends into a fast and furious bank style heist storyline… but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Damn it, pre ordered the game so had the 24 hr early access. Clicked play at 3pm and it requires another download to start! Now chomping at the bit for another hour!
@themightyant exactly that, they bought Bungie to satisfy the shareholders / Sony share price when Xbox went on a buying spree. Ironically both Sony and Xbox’s purchase has resulted in losses, more so on Microsoft’s part.
Damn, better complete the first one. Had it sat on my hard drive for 5+ years, still too scared to get past the first encounter with the Zeno and I like to think I’m fairly competent at the horror genre (silent hill, RE, all completed several times).
Played 5hours straight, enjoying it so far. Been keeping an eye on this since the first trailer, game hasn’t disappointed thus far and a bargain price.
Previous games were from Kratos perspective who effectively slaughters his gods. Be interesting to see if they lean it to Faye being a survivor of the frost giants being slaughtered and her battle to survive / elude Odin, Baldur and Thor - no doubt that crafting the Axe will be a part of the plot.
No doubt she'll cross paths with Kratos and the game ends with her demise and links straight into the 2018 God of War intro.
I’m a massive RE fan, played all the main instalments all the way back from 1995 till today. The latest entry fell flat to me and I scored it a 7 for reasons below:
A) the plot was nonsensical even for a RE game. Introduces a villain (zemo) who has no connection to the original game or previous plots who’s already superhuman- so why go searching for mind control. Scientist who can ride a bike and shoot a RPG one handed!
B) graces campaign should have been a mainline entry like 7 or village set in the asylum for a good 10 hours. Not combined with Leon’s.
C) Leon’s gameplay felt like RE6 and not in a good way, he practically starts off fully armed rather than scrambling for obsolete 90s weapons in nuked Racoon city. Credits and a crate instead of a merchant - who would have fit in the Racoon City wasteland.
D) the nostalgia callbacks should have been the whole game. Leon forced to return unarmed to a sealed off Racoon city and fend for himself using scraps and salvaged weapons. Instead we visit the RPD for 30 mins.
E) bosses were relatively easy and typical RE - shoot the glowing blobs… and one of the bosses was a RE2 callback who stalked you the whole game, you kill him in one boss fight. Same goes for another RE2 character.
F) the choice of endings was odd either one happy ending or one miserable one…
G) the game implies that the world is ruled by corporations selling bio weapons, yet the last 10 years worth of entries haven’t fleshed that world out. Maybe RE5 and RE6 focused on it?
If I’d bought this physically I’d have it for sale on eBay having completed it, which is a first for me and a RE game as I replay the others at least once a year.
Tried the demo, didn’t enjoy the hacking element. Maybe my brain / reflexes are not what they once were….
Which is a shame as I’d been following this game with interest over the last few years.
@Scottyy It would have been logical, however MS pivoted last year and by then gears E-Day had been in development for several years so no time to release 1,2, and 3 on PS5 prior to that.
@Slayer25c RE6 gameplay (and the plot) just felt like they turned the dial upto 11 for the sake of turning up the dial. With Leon acting more like Dante.
hmmm not sure how i feel about Leon's gameplay being more of RE6. One of the many issues i had with RE6 was Leon becoming John Wick - before John Wick.
Absolutely amazed by how bad Ubisoft has fumbled this remake. First it evolved into Skull and Bones that took nearly a decade and was an absolute farce of a finished product. Then the remake itself is delayed.
Interesting decision by Amazon, I can see their thinking to try and unite all the games into 1 cannon and to celebrate 30 years by remaking the original first game. Just makes me wonder why they didn’t remake TR2 rather than jump to the sequel of the last ever game. At the end of the day if the games are good no one will care anyone about the timelines.
@StitchJones That would be an awesome gameplay detail. Would love to see it in action and spend the game collecting CD's to make the sword more powerful etc. Now im going to be disappointed if Naughty Dog dont do this.
god the lack of synchronisation between IP owners and their media arms is appalling. For instance Sony own Twisted Metal, releases a TV show, cancels the live service game. Crash Bandicoot the TV series but no crash game to sync it with. Activision now want to do a Call of Duty game 10 years after the IP has peaked. Just a severe lack of joined up thinking.
hmmm odd, as xbox in the last few years spent billions to acquire several iconic gaming studios, took their IP's and where they could turned them into exclusives solely for Xbox.
Only when they spent 70 billion on purchasing activision (for COD) and forced to ensure multi-platform have Xbox buckled and done an about face to become a publisher and this is due to financial pressure from Microsoft to recoup their losses.
Not because they believe exclusives belong on every platform
@Shinnok789 Kind of late the PS has been missing a kiddie mascot for decades. They had sackboy for the PS3 in my opinion but did little captalise on that. The PS5 is now ending its lifecycle and Sony only just think they now need a mascot?
I was initially intrigued by the original trailer they showed 4 years ago but the more I see of the gameplay the less appealing I find it. Shame as futuristic sci fi shooter should be right up my alley.
@Dragoon1994 I reckon they could remake the PSP games as it’s still Kojima all the way through them gameplay and storyline wise, just need a graphic overall which this team have now proven they’re capable of
@somnambulance The two PSP games would make sense linear storylines wise as they continue the big boss / MGS3 storyline and the gameplay is similar if not identical to MGS3.
Think I’ve debated with you before regarding if MGS5 is supposed to Kojimas meta for actual phantom pain.
@LifeGirl Think you’ll find they remade MGS3 because it was easiest and the sanest choice. MGS5 is technically unfinished, MGS4 is stuck on PS3 hardware. MGS1 would require the full remake treatment not a simple remaster which is what has been done to MGS3 and acts as the first standalone game in the series from a lore perspective to a newcomer of the series.
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Re: DOOM PS5 DLC Quietly Becomes One of 2026's Best-Rated Releases
Working through the DLC as I type, it’s very good. Think ID have done a great job as always.
Re: Sony's Looking to Bring More Ads to PlayStation, and Fans Won't Like It
BMW just played Spider-Man ads on the dashboards of any of their models built after 2020, if this is the future Sony can ram it. They’ve not poor / broke this is just rampant capitalism.
Re: Celebrating 30 Years of Lara Croft at Derby's Tomb Raider Exhibit
Such a massive cultural icon. You had to be a teenage boy in 1996 and the hype surrounding the original trilogy was something else…saying that I never played them! Was more into Resident Evil. Though the later Tomb Raider survivor / reboot trilogy was definitely my bag.
Re: Latest DOOM's DLC 50% Off Just 3 Weeks After PS5 Release
Glad I bought the collectors edition at £200…including the DLC that I thought was worth £30 odd quid (as per eternal)… and it’s worth £8!
Re: Here's How Much Better Metal Gear Solid 4 Looks on PS5
@LifeGirl
That’s why MGS5 was cassette tape recordings for the lore, Kojima did learn from MGS4.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) - Open World Pledge Produces a Superficial Space Outing
And boy was I wrong 😑 glad I paid a tenner, if I bought this day 1 full price I’d be pissed. Even 2 years later and various updates this games still a 6. It’s exactly what a Ubisoft game bolted to Star Wars sounds like… average / mediocre. Main issues:
Stealth is woeful, the NPCs are brain dead. The secret entrance to the base is always 5 meters to the left.
Graphics aren’t great, the female main lead looks badly rendered.
Plenty of member berries / nostalgia
Faction system is pointless and barely an inconvenience.
Missions are tedious. You get to point A only to need object X that’s at the other end of the map…thank god for fast travel.
Honestly, given my bias towards linear single player games, this is one that would have benefited from being stripped of its typical Ubisoft open world elements, you’re not really an outlaw and it feels like you should have played as Han or the ND-5. The plot twist at the end is painful and lame…for an outlaw the main character goes back to help a friend..and the rebellion…not something an outlaw would actually do.
Just finished the game…well not finished as the final boss battle absolutely sucks and they did the same boss battle twice in a row, so I gave up and watched on YouTube. Joining a very select few games where I’ve given up and deleted the game prior to the final level / boss.
Re: 'I'm Not Convinced There's a Viable Way Forward': DOOM Dev Relegated to 'Support Studio' Size
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Re: 'I'm Not Convinced There's a Viable Way Forward': DOOM Dev Relegated to 'Support Studio' Size
It’s a shame pushsquare bans swearing as what I want to write and what I can write are not reflective of one another.
Doom is an ICONIC franchise! iCONIC. Responsible for the FPS genre on Pc all the way back in the early 90s, the studio is also responsible for wolfenstein (though they don’t currently design it).
The rebooted trilogy is an example of how to do an iconic series justice! You can see the love and dedication in all 3 of the games. All 3 games play uniquely- which we as gamers always claim to want more of e.g if you like fast paced, play eternal, want heavy and slow play Dark Ages, want sci fi setting play the 2016 version and that’s before we get to the awesome DLCs.
The rebooted handled the lore brilliantly e.g. flashbacks or documents. All 3 games combined are effectively a closed lore cycle and we as gamers got a beginning, middle and end to the Doomslayers story.
Microsoft should be ashamed at what they’ve done and should have sold it off rather than gutting it and turning it into a support studio!
The series made money, just not the 30% profit randomly picked as the new benchmark.
Thank you ID, you did amazing and deserved so much better.
Re: Xbox Wants to Cancel Marvel's Blade, Close Arkane Studios
@JackiePriest this is the issue, they’ll look at their last game…which was a loss maker and that will be the reason why Arkane will be shut or sold.
Re: Xbox Wants to Cancel Marvel's Blade, Close Arkane Studios
@Bluemoon2008
They’ll have to pay Disney off, which will be the main bulk of the ‘loss’ if this article is true / correct.
Re: Rumour: State of Decay 3 Dev Also Facing Xbox Axe, Weeks After Game Was Revealed for PS5
@BamBamBaklava89
Think they’d had their fill when they buy Ubisoft.
Re: Rumour: State of Decay 3 Dev Also Facing Xbox Axe, Weeks After Game Was Revealed for PS5
@get2sammyb
More importantly who gets DOOM?
Re: Rumour: Naughty Dog Chose to Remake The Last of Us 1 for PS5 Instead of Uncharted 1
It was a bad call Ripley, a bad call.
Re: GTA 6 Physical Edition Doesn't Come with Discs, It's a Code in the Box
Hmm wonder how many will stick to their guns and not buy due to no disc…. Not many I suspect.
This is sadly the future of gaming can see the ps6 being digital only.
Re: Several Xbox Studios at Risk of Closure, in Talks to Become Independent
Wouldn’t be surprised if this is the beginning of the end of Xbox, as I suspect if these cuts & closures don’t right the ship and return Xbox from a 3% margin, these cuts will act as a trimming of the fat to position Xbox being separated from MS and sold off as a separate entity.
Re: UK Gamers Question Hobby's Future as Government Bans Kids from Social Media
Good. Ban it and include a course in how to navigate social media, fake news, AI slop before someone is allowed to navigate a mobile phone.
To all those moaning about the UK gov collecting info on you… you already hand that info over to google, Meta etc and they’re not your friends, your a data resource to them that is to be exploited.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) - Open World Pledge Produces a Superficial Space Outing
Just bought it for a tenner on eBay. Look forward to jumping in now that it’s had a few patches / updates, the most recent comments indicate I might enjoy this more than its original score implies.
Re: PS4 Police Game Battlefield Hardline to Be Delisted from PS Store in May
Bought this for £2 from eBay (due to this article) and just finished it. An interesting campaign, its tone is a bit all over the place. Starts of as Miami vice / CSI and all gritty. Then descends into a fast and furious bank style heist storyline… but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Re: 007 First Light Is Fully Playable on PS5 Now If You Pre-Ordered from PS Store
@JAMes-BroWWWn
Same here, bit miffed at the advertised 3pm release time if you can’t play until 4pm due to a day 1 patch / update!
Re: Review in Progress: 007 First Light (PS5) - James Bond's Origin Adventure Is Highly Entertaining
Damn it, pre ordered the game so had the 24 hr early access. Clicked play at 3pm and it requires another download to start! Now chomping at the bit for another hour!
Re: Mouse: P.I. For Hire Is an Official Indie Hit, Sells Better Than Expected
A great unique game, strongly recommend. I purchased it Day 1.
Re: Bungie Was a $765 Million Thorn in Sony's Side in 2025
@themightyant exactly that, they bought Bungie to satisfy the shareholders / Sony share price when Xbox went on a buying spree. Ironically both Sony and Xbox’s purchase has resulted in losses, more so on Microsoft’s part.
Re: Atomfall Joins the Ranks of The Last of Us and Fallout with Its Own TV Series Adaptation
@ThroughTheIris56, same here. Loved the setting and storyline but the gameplay was a tad woeful and I got bored. Shame but I’ll be tuning in for this.
Re: Here's Your Very First Look at PS5's New Alien: Isolation Game
Damn, better complete the first one. Had it sat on my hard drive for 5+ years, still too scared to get past the first encounter with the Zeno and I like to think I’m fairly competent at the horror genre (silent hill, RE, all completed several times).
Re: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Is a Huge and 'Faithful' Remake of the Pirate Classic, Out on PS5 in July
And just like that they pull me back in!
Re: Mini Review: Mouse: P.I. for Hire (PS5) - Elite Art with FPS Action to Match
Played 5hours straight, enjoying it so far. Been keeping an eye on this since the first trailer, game hasn’t disappointed thus far and a bargain price.
Re: Rumour: A God of War PS5 Prequel Not Starring Kratos Will Take Us to Multiple Mythologies
Previous games were from Kratos perspective who effectively slaughters his gods. Be interesting to see if they lean it to Faye being a survivor of the frost giants being slaughtered and her battle to survive / elude Odin, Baldur and Thor - no doubt that crafting the Axe will be a part of the plot.
No doubt she'll cross paths with Kratos and the game ends with her demise and links straight into the 2018 God of War intro.
Re: It Won't Be Much Longer Before We See More of PS5 Exclusive Marvel's Wolverine
@Meowmixes98 its a digital pre order, not like it’s going to sell out…
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Resident Evil Requiem?
I’m a massive RE fan, played all the main instalments all the way back from 1995 till today. The latest entry fell flat to me and I scored it a 7 for reasons below:
A) the plot was nonsensical even for a RE game. Introduces a villain (zemo) who has no connection to the original game or previous plots who’s already superhuman- so why go searching for mind control. Scientist who can ride a bike and shoot a RPG one handed!
B) graces campaign should have been a mainline entry like 7 or village set in the asylum for a good 10 hours. Not combined with Leon’s.
C) Leon’s gameplay felt like RE6 and not in a good way, he practically starts off fully armed rather than scrambling for obsolete 90s weapons in nuked Racoon city. Credits and a crate instead of a merchant - who would have fit in the Racoon City wasteland.
D) the nostalgia callbacks should have been the whole game. Leon forced to return unarmed to a sealed off Racoon city and fend for himself using scraps and salvaged weapons. Instead we visit the RPD for 30 mins.
E) bosses were relatively easy and typical RE - shoot the glowing blobs… and one of the bosses was a RE2 callback who stalked you the whole game, you kill him in one boss fight. Same goes for another RE2 character.
F) the choice of endings was odd either one happy ending or one miserable one…
G) the game implies that the world is ruled by corporations selling bio weapons, yet the last 10 years worth of entries haven’t fleshed that world out. Maybe RE5 and RE6 focused on it?
If I’d bought this physically I’d have it for sale on eBay having completed it, which is a first for me and a RE game as I replay the others at least once a year.
Re: Darwin's Paradox Cosplays as Metal Gear Solid in Playable Demo, Available Now on PS5
I found it via the ps app, though it’s on the same page as the full game and you need to select the demo rather than the base game.
Re: Try Pragmata's Hack-and-Shoot Action in Playable Demo, Available Now on PS5
Tried the demo, didn’t enjoy the hacking element. Maybe my brain / reflexes are not what they once were….
Which is a shame as I’d been following this game with interest over the last few years.
Re: Microsoft Targeting Halo PS5 Release in the Summer
@Scottyy
It would have been logical, however MS pivoted last year and by then gears E-Day had been in development for several years so no time to release 1,2, and 3 on PS5 prior to that.
Re: Preview: Resident Evil Requiem Is the Ultimate PS5 Horror Game
@Slayer25c
RE6 gameplay (and the plot) just felt like they turned the dial upto 11 for the sake of turning up the dial. With Leon acting more like Dante.
I'll still buy this game day 1 though...
Re: Preview: Resident Evil Requiem Is the Ultimate PS5 Horror Game
hmmm not sure how i feel about Leon's gameplay being more of RE6. One of the many issues i had with RE6 was Leon becoming John Wick - before John Wick.
Re: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Remake Reportedly Delayed by Up to a Year
Absolutely amazed by how bad Ubisoft has fumbled this remake. First it evolved into Skull and Bones that took nearly a decade and was an absolute farce of a finished product. Then the remake itself is delayed.
Re: 007 First Light's PS5 Release Date Has Been Pushed Back a Couple of Months
Guess you could say Bond will Die another Day…
Re: Terminator Survivors Delayed Indefinitely, Drops Co-Op Multiplayer
Asta la vista baby.
On a serious note hope no one loses their job.
Re: 'How Do We Help Her Evolve?': Crystal Dynamics on Reimagining Tomb Raider's Lara Croft for a New Era
@kirby2000
I preferred the trauma version. Though she became a bit of a self important arse in the later games - though that’s down to the writers.
Re: 'How Do We Help Her Evolve?': Crystal Dynamics on Reimagining Tomb Raider's Lara Croft for a New Era
Interesting decision by Amazon, I can see their thinking to try and unite all the games into 1 cannon and to celebrate 30 years by remaking the original first game. Just makes me wonder why they didn’t remake TR2 rather than jump to the sequel of the last ever game. At the end of the day if the games are good no one will care anyone about the timelines.
Re: James Bond's Love Affair with Aston Martin Is Present and Correct in 007 First Light
@4fold
He drove a Bentley in the first couple of books. Then swapped to Aston Martin. In the films he’s had tie ins with a variety of car brands.
Re: PS5's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Draws Closer with Naughty Dog Recruitment Drive
@StitchJones
That would be an awesome gameplay detail. Would love to see it in action and spend the game collecting CD's to make the sword more powerful etc. Now im going to be disappointed if Naughty Dog dont do this.
Re: Crash Bandicoot Set to Spin into New Netflix Animated Adaptation
god the lack of synchronisation between IP owners and their media arms is appalling. For instance Sony own Twisted Metal, releases a TV show, cancels the live service game. Crash Bandicoot the TV series but no crash game to sync it with. Activision now want to do a Call of Duty game 10 years after the IP has peaked. Just a severe lack of joined up thinking.
Re: Xbox Boss Believes Sony's Strategy of Console Exclusives Is 'Antiquated'
hmmm odd, as xbox in the last few years spent billions to acquire several iconic gaming studios, took their IP's and where they could turned them into exclusives solely for Xbox.
Only when they spent 70 billion on purchasing activision (for COD) and forced to ensure multi-platform have Xbox buckled and done an about face to become a publisher and this is due to financial pressure from Microsoft to recoup their losses.
Not because they believe exclusives belong on every platform
Re: 'Astro Bot Has So Much Potential': Sony Merch Boss Predicts Big Things for Platformer
@Shinnok789
Kind of late the PS has been missing a kiddie mascot for decades. They had sackboy for the PS3 in my opinion but did little captalise on that. The PS5 is now ending its lifecycle and Sony only just think they now need a mascot?
Re: Battlefield 6 Boss Says Call of Duty Only Exists 'Because EA Were D*cks'
I’m Sure a YouTube channel (Gamers) covered this a few years ago.
Re: PS5's Most Exciting Upcoming Shooter Pragmata Levels Up in New Trailer
I was initially intrigued by the original trailer they showed 4 years ago but the more I see of the gameplay the less appealing I find it. Shame as futuristic sci fi shooter should be right up my alley.
Re: Mini Review: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants (PS5) - A Fun Yet Familiar Indy Outing
The price puts me off regarding such short gameplay. Robocop dlc is the same price yet double the playtime. Shame as I loved the base game
Re: Metal Gear Solid Delta Sneaks Past the One Million Sales Milestone in First 24 Hours
@Dragoon1994 I reckon they could remake the PSP games as it’s still Kojima all the way through them gameplay and storyline wise, just need a graphic overall which this team have now proven they’re capable of
Re: Metal Gear Solid Delta Sneaks Past the One Million Sales Milestone in First 24 Hours
@somnambulance
The two PSP games would make sense linear storylines wise as they continue the big boss / MGS3 storyline and the gameplay is similar if not identical to MGS3.
Think I’ve debated with you before regarding if MGS5 is supposed to Kojimas meta for actual phantom pain.
Re: Metal Gear Solid Delta Sneaks Past the One Million Sales Milestone in First 24 Hours
@LifeGirl
Think you’ll find they remade MGS3 because it was easiest and the sanest choice. MGS5 is technically unfinished, MGS4 is stuck on PS3 hardware. MGS1 would require the full remake treatment not a simple remaster which is what has been done to MGS3 and acts as the first standalone game in the series from a lore perspective to a newcomer of the series.