Stealth

A new video for the upcoming tactical stealth game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden outlines how players will approach combat, exploration, and intel-gathering, with a key focus on planning. As described by publisher Funcom: “[Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden] promises a new and exciting take on the XCOM tactical combat …

Aotearoa New Zealand, a small island nation that’s often left off maps of the world and that most Americans think is somewhere in Europe, will get a spot in the limelight next month, at least for people who pick up Hitman 2. Developer IO Interactive released a new trailer for the …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider was always going to struggle to reach the heights of its predecessors. Rise of the Tomb Raider in particular, in the way it explored the nuances of Lara’s obsessive behaviour and the impact of that on everyone around her, was much smarter than I think …

The isometric stealth tactics genre has been dormant for a long time, and this is understandable. It’s niche, to say the least – there are only a handful of notable examples, even from the genre’s heyday of the early 2000s. Such games are also tricky to design well; to take …

Styx: Shards of Darkness is one of the best stealth games in a long time, and that’s only made better by its gross yet endearing goblin hero.  Having never played the previous game, I didn’t know what to expect from Styx: Shards of Darkness. I was intrigued by the idea …

We’ve got a copy of Sniper Elite 4 to give away on PlayStation 4, thanks to Rebellion Developments and GDE Distribution. Sniper Elite 4 is one of the best stealth games I’ve played in a long time, with huge, detailed levels and plenty of freedom to improvise and get creative with your approach. …

Sniper Elite is my guilty pleasure. I know, conventional wisdom says there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure – “like what you like, without guilt”. There’s an element of truth in that, but it’s a more complicated issue and one that’s worth unpacking. Sniper Elite 3 was a game …

Shadwen is an interesting game. It’s not necessarily a good game, but it’s certainly an interesting one, which makes it a curious game to review. It’s so unpolished in its current state that I couldn’t in any right mind recommend it to someone looking for high-quality entertainment, but it’s so …