RETRO Game Review - Escape Dead Island (PS3)
Escape Dead Island offers occasional third-person survival horror thrills but is otherwise a shambling, mediocre bore-fest.
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Steven Barry
- Jun 28, 2022
Game Review - Capcom Fighting Collection (Nintendo Switch)
This retro bundle will satisfy those with fondness for the classic Capcom 2D fighting games.
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Steven Barry
- Jun 21, 2022
Game Review - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Switch)
Grab a pizza slice and weapon of choice, Shredder’s back and we need to kick some shell.
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Steven Barry
- May 16, 2022
RETRO Game Review - Linger In Shadows (PS Now/PS3)
Grab your Sixaxis controller and prepare to be underwhelmed by this demo-scene ‘interactive art’ project.
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Steven Barry
- May 10, 2022
RETRO Game Review - Dead Island: Riptide (PS Now/PS3)
Grab your customised barbed wire baseball bat and med kits, we have some more infected to bludgeon for this zombie-killing retrospective
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Steven Barry
- Mar 13, 2022
RETRO Game Review - Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA)
The Game Boy Advance’s Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) is a perfect blend of elements from both its predecessors.
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Steven Barry
- Jan 30, 2022
RETRO Game Review - Perfect Dark (N64)
Grab your Expansion Pak and Farsight Gun – we have some DarkSims to kill
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Steven Barry
- Jan 12, 2022
Game Review - Dead Island: Definitive Edition (PS4/PS Now)
In this review, we check out the remastered version on PS4/PS Now of the original Dead Island to see how our zombie killing fares in 2022.
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Steven Barry
- Jan 1, 2022
RETRO Game Review - Super Mario Kart (SNES)
In this retrospective review, we grab our banana peels to check out the originator of the ‘kart racer’ to see if it still wins gold in 2022.
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Steven Barry
- Dec 9, 2021
RETRO Game Review: F-Zero (SNES)
In this retrospective review, we take a look back at Nintendo’s original F-Zero game to see if it can match the pace in 2021.
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Steven Barry
- May 3, 2021
RETRO Game Review - Rayman 2 (N64)
Rayman 2 shares many qualities of its two-dimensional predecessor, especially in presentation but some frustrating sections hold it back.
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Steven Barry
- Jan 15, 2021
RETRO Game Review - Rayman (PS1)
This month's classic game review - a cutesy 2D platformer for kids? Well yes, but turns out it's also a deceptively sadistic nightmare.
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Steven Barry
- Dec 11, 2020
RETRO Game Review: Mario Party 2 (N64)
We take a look at Nintendo and Hasbro's sequel to the original Mario Party and enjoy all of its novelty costume carnage.
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Steven Barry
- Oct 15, 2020
RETRO Game Review - Mario Party (N64)
The original Mario Party was an acclaimed release for the Japanese company in 1999 and was an absolute blast as a multiplayer game. Read on!
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Steven Barry
- Jul 25, 2020
RETRO Game Review - Mario Kart 64 (N64)
Amazing in its time and as part of my lockdown revisit of Nintendo's games, does it truly hold up over twenty years later? Let's find out!
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Steven Barry
- Jul 19, 2020
RETRO Game Review - F1 World Grand Prix (N64)
Read our retro game review of Paradigm's cracking first F1 N64 game released in 1998.
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Fran Murphy
- Apr 28, 2020
Game Review - No Man's Sky (PC)
How to travel when locked down due to Covid-19? Well, find a game with a whole universe inside it.
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Steven Barry
- Feb 19, 2020
RETRO Game Review - Pit Pot (Sega Master System)
This early Sega Master System puzzle/maze action platformer is joyously colourful but its punishing trial and error are painful.
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Steven Barry
- Jun 16, 2019
Game Review - 'n Verlore Verstand (Xbox One)
This Xbox One indie title offers some interesting varied visuals and atmosphere but all too often is bogged down with taxing frustration.
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Steven Barry
- Apr 17, 2019
RETRO Game Review - Winter Stars (PS3)
49Games’ winter sports title is competent enough for budget game but as a solo experience it becomes overly repetitive.
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Steven Barry
- Feb 8, 2019
RETRO Game Review - White Knight Chronicles (PS3)
WKC is an ambitious (JRPG) developed by Level-5, which offers some exciting gameplay and an inspired world but a sadly predictable story.
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Steven Barry
- Aug 6, 2018
Game Review - Prominence Poker (XBox One)
Grab your cigar, poison of choice and take a seat – we have some Texas Hold’em to play
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Steven Barry
- Jan 4, 2018
RETRO Game Review - Perfect Dark (Xbox 360/XB1)
Grab your remastered FarSight and Laptop Guns – we have some more PerfectSims to kill
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Steven Barry
- Dec 15, 2017
RETRO Game Review - 10-Yard Fight (NES)
Kapeesh Retro review of 10-Yard Fight, an early sports release for the original Nintendo. How does it hold up?
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Steven Barry
- Nov 3, 2017
RETRO Game Review - "Aha! I Found It!" Hidden Object Game (WiiWare)
“Aha! I Found It!” Hidden Object Game can probably be categorised as a clear-cut example of ‘shovel-ware’ on the Wii Store.
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Steven Barry
- Oct 16, 2017
RETRO Game Review - Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GameCube)
Kapeesh Review of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - How does it hold up?
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Steven Barry
- Jun 4, 2017
RETRO Game Review - F-Zero X (N64)
Kapeesh Review of Nintendo's N64 classic F-Zero X, sequel to the original F Zero. How does it hold up?
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Steven Barry
- Apr 9, 2017
RETRO Game Review - PGA Tour Golf (SNES)
Kapeesh review of the classic PGA Tour Golf on the Super Nintendo - how does it hold up?
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Steven Barry
- Jan 20, 2017
RETRO Game Review - Aggressive Inline (GameCube)
Kapeesh Review of the Gamecube version of Aggressive Inline. It's got Jaren Grob, so that's cool, right?
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