The BAFTA Games Awards 2021 winners have now all been revealed, with the ceremony having just come to a close. The BAFTA Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honoring ‘outstanding creative achievement’ in the video game industry through several different categories of accomplishment, and for the second year in a row have been held virtually. This ceremony celebrates the very best games of the previous year, with this year’s ceremony focusing predominantly on games that released in 2020. Read More...
It only took me a single game to realize that Gotham City Impostors was partially created in a fashion that would appeal to Call of Duty fans everywhere, because its mechanics were unquestionably modeled after it. Aiming, moving, even the control layout is nearly identical down to using the right analog stick to knife opponents and the left to sprint. But what I realized in my second and third games is that GCI contains what the latest CoD content has severely lacked – innovation. Read More...
Grasshopper Manufacture is probably best known for its weirdness. From the No More Heroes series to Shadows of the Damned, Suda 51 and company definitely have a certain style about them. Gamers are getting more saavy by the day however, and just being different isn’t enough. While there’s certainly a demand for alternative styles in gaming, gameplay is something that speaks any language. Grasshopper has got the pop culture thing down, they strike a level of abstract better than anyone, but some of their previous efforts have fallen flat in this all-important gameplay category. Read More...
