Latest Articles By Steven Burns
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Review
Editor's Note: The below review is based on the PS4 version of Black Flag. Having played the PS3 version for around three hours in…
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag – What Needs To Change?
Like the fate that befell perennial series cipher/bellend Desmond, Assassin's Creed's ageing mechanics have to die. For years the franchise's poor AI, awful checkpointing,…
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GTA 5: San Andreas Stories #5 – The Future Of Los Santos
After what seems like six years, I've finally finished GTA 5 ('Deathwish' ending, for those interested.) Strangely, it was at this point where I…
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GTA 5: San Andreas Stories #4 – Trevor Phillips’ Secret Past
Please Note: Spoiler Warning Think of Trevor Phillips and your mind will probably recoil in horror (or demented glee. Either is fine). He's an…
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Thief Hands-On: A Killer Comeback?
"A game like Thief would have probably been swallowed up in the Splinter Cell era," Eidos Montreal producer Joe Khoury tells me when asked…
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Beyond: Two Souls Review
For all its promises of representing a change from the usual (supposed) shoot-bang zeitgeist, Beyond is just as nonsensical as any Call of Duty.…
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Why David Cage Should Have Made Heavy Rain 2
Warning: Spoilers Within The trouble with desperately wanting your work to be taken seriously, like David Cage so obviously wants Beyond to be, is…
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GTA 5: San Andreas Stories #3 – The Rise (and Fall) of Franklin: GTA 5’s Hidden Appeal
It's not all killing, shooting, and looting. Well, a lot of it is, of course: GTA 5's version of Los Angeles is a warzone…
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Hands-On – The Next-Gen Experience
Talking at a recent press tour for Black Flag, lead game designer Jean-Sebastien Decant told me that "the biggest challenge for this game was…
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GTA 5: San Andreas Stories #2 – Lost Santos
Michael De Santa is a millionaire loser, the oxymoronic end result of an American Dream turned night-terror. Look past the mansion, the suits and…
