The Game Guy

Game: Minecraft Dungeons Available On: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows Played On: Xbox One Price: £16.74 Available on Xbox Game Pass or PSnow: It’s on Game Pass Look at me being all current and trendy for a change, bit of a difference from last time when I reviewed a game made in late noughties, oh no, I’m coming right up to date and playing new a game that came out a mere few days ago. Yes it’s Minecraft Dungeons, the 2020 release developed by Majong Studios and Double Eleven and published by Xbox Game Studios. The fact that this is made by Microsoft and on so many platforms hopefully shows a bit of progress in the stupid and tiring console war, just play on whatever platform you like, it’s all good. I never really thought I’d need a Diablo esque style game set in the universe of Minecraft but here we are and I’m playing it. I remember seeing it’s reveal at E3 and sort of taking note as that being something to look out for but not much else. A cynical part...

Game: Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PSP, Gameboy Advance Player On: Xbox 360 Backwards Compatible: Yes Price: £11.99 Available on Xbox Game Pass: No Another little gift from Microsoft, this game cost me nothing with the Games with Gold scheme so I thought why not? We have Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy, the 2006 release developed by Traveller’s Tales and published by LucasArts and TT Games Publishing. This was only the second themed Lego game made (after Lego Star Wars: The Video Game) and rather unsurprisingly follows the antics from episodes iv, v and vi. I have sort of been wanting to get this game anyway as I have set a personal goal of perfecting all the licensed Lego games, sadly I can’t do the first Lego Star Wars (as it didn’t reach Xbox 360) but that still gives me 29 games to perfect. I’ve already completed 2 (The Complete Saga and Indiana Jones) so finding this one costing me n...

Thought I’d try something a bit different today. We seem to live in a world of nostalgia, a real wanting for the good old days in everything it seems. ‘TV is terrible’ ‘kids don’t go outside anymore’ ‘things aren’t made like they’re used to’ and I thought I’d tap into that. I love a remake, if it’s done well, and the success of the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro remasters in the last few years have brought through a whole host of older titles getting the HD remake or being brought to new consoles. With no signs of slowing as this summer we will get a dusting off of Destroy All Humans and Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, let’s see, what in my opinion (I can’t stress that enough), should be brought into 4K (Small disclaimer, all the games can’t have been announced to be remastered like the potential remasters of the Mario games Nintendo recently announced. This is a list of games I’d love to see, however rumoured games with no official announcement do make the list) No....

Game: Totally Reliable Delivery Service Platforms: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows, MAC, Android Played On: Xbox One Price: £12.49 Available on Xbox Game Pass: Yes Another day, another physics based game. I’ve seen a few gameplay videos and was intrigued by what I was seeing, so was pleasantly surprised to see that this game had been put on Game Pass for it’s console release. Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a 2019 game developed by We’re Five Games and Published by TinyBuild Games. So let’s see if this game is really as fun as it looks. Physics based games have been on the up recently. Titles like Human Fall Flat and Gang Beasts really started putting them on the map. They use a very simple formula and that’s by giving the game ridiculous physics then comedy is almost assured as your character will be flailing and flopping without even trying. Add to it something simple (like delivering packages) and in theory you’ll strike gold. As I’ve said, after ...