Tag Archives: Game Review

Race the Sun (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Race the Sun is an endless runner racing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The game was launched on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign which saw 1,144 backers generously donate to Flippfly as the gaming community raised $1,579 more than their target of $20,000 required to develop and release the game across multiple platforms with the project receiving official status as being successfully funded on March 7th 2013.

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(2048 words, estimated 8:12 mins reading time)

Tennis in the Face (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Tennis in the Face is a physics based puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Tennis in the Face is an even more humorous take on the physics based puzzle genre in comparison to 10Tons’ King Oddball.

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(1801 words, estimated 7:12 mins reading time)

Driveclub (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating  9 out of 10

Driveclub is a socially connected racing game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4.

Evolution Studios have a real pedigree for developing racing games as they developed all five of the PS2 exclusive WRC games from 2001 through 2005, while creating the rather unique world of MotorStorm for a trilogy of PS3 exclusives from 2006 to 2011 with a spin-off in the form of the cross-buy MotorStorm RC for PS3 and PS Vita in 2012.

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(3800 words, estimated 15:12 mins reading time)

Day D: Tower Rush (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9 out of 10

Day D: Tower Rush is a tower defence based strategy game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The task is to destroy waves of incoming pre-historic enemies before they are able to complete their journey to enter the time machine with the power of turrets and inventions at the player’s disposal across an entire campaign.

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(2567 words, estimated 10:16 mins reading time)

Futuridium EP Deluxe (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Futuridium EP Deluxe is a retro space shooting game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Futuridium EP Deluxe is a faithful homage to a retro classic by the name of Uridium which was originally released on the Commodore 64 in 1986 before being ported to the ZX Spectrum.

The story revolves around a spaceship pilot who becomes lost in a dimensional loop prior to a large scale space battle, so the spaceship pilot is now trying to find his way out of the dimensional loop in a bid to find his way back home.

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(2159 words, estimated 8:38 mins reading time)

Run Like Hell! (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9 out of 10

Run Like Hell! is an action platform variant of the endless runner genre; available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The game is from the same developer that brought the excellent Draw Slasher to the PlayStation Vita in April 2013.

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(2679 words, estimated 10:43 mins reading time)

Switch Galaxy Ultra (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Switch Galaxy Ultra is a reflex based racing game available as a download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Switch Galaxy Ultra originated as an iOS game called Switch in 2011 which was improved before releasing it as a PlayStation Mobile game under the name Switch Galaxy in 2013 ahead of the most enhanced and refined version of Switch in the form of Switch Galaxy Ultra on PS4 and PS Vita. Atomicom has PlayStation history running through its veins as their managing director is Gary Nichols who began his career in the videogame industry at the legendary Psygnosis who developed such amazing PS1 classics such as Colony Wars, Destruction Derby and WipEout. The Liverpool based indie developer Atomicom is active in their charitable work as the game has downloadable content called the Charity Pack which supports Caudwell Children with the full proceeds of that particular pack being donated to support poor, sick and disabled children which is certainly a nice way of giving back to the community and those less fortunate.

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(2740 words, estimated 10:58 mins reading time)

Little Big Planet 3 (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Little Big Planet 3 is a creative platform adventure game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4.

The critical acclaim and popularity of the Little Big Planet series is unquestionable as the franchise has sold millions of units and downloadable content since it began with its original release on PS3 in 2008 before a PSP version followed in 2009 and with a sequel to the PS3 game released in January 2011 in the form of Little Big Planet 2. The series returned to portable gaming with Little Big Planet PS Vita in September 2012 ahead of the release of Little Big Planet 3 on PS4.

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(3753 words, estimated 15:01 mins reading time)

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions (PS4), Game Review

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is a twin-stick shooting game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Geometry Wars started out life as a mini-game upon the release of Project Gotham Racing 2 on November 17th 2003 and was accessible via the in-game garage, which due to the positive reception it received from players was spun off into its own game called Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and has since continued as its own successful series of games. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions was developed by Lucid Games who rose from the ashes of the unfortunately disbanded Bizarre Creations that had developed the Project Gotham Racing series and began the Geometry Wars series as well as some excellent titles through the years such as Formula One, Formula 1 ’97, Metropolis Street Racer, Fur Fighters, The Club, Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone, therefore proving Bizarre Creation’s and Lucid Games’ pedigree as excellent games developers and one of the best Liverpool based developers of all-time in the videogames industry.

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(2466 words, estimated 9:52 mins reading time)