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ReviewsPS4Ghost Of Tsushima: The Kotaku Review
Ghost of Tsushima is a game of compulsion. Like most open-world adventures, everything is designed to get you to explore what’s over the next hill or across that nearby river. The map is peppered with question marks, many of which surround towns and temples in which you meet allies and upgrade equipment. Helpful diversions like…
By Ian Walker Published July 14, 2020 -
ReviewsPS4Iron Man VR: The Kotaku Review
Iron Man feels like a perfect fit for virtual reality. In the movies, Tony Stark’s advanced armor operates like VR, with a virtual screen projected inside his helmet. So when I put on my PSVR headset and started playing Iron Man VR I felt like that famous, armor-wearing superhero. Unfortunately, I didn’t have to just…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 2, 2020 -
ReviewsPS4The Last Of Us Part 2: The Kotaku Review
Everything in The Last of Us 2 takes work. Every weapon reload, killing blow, and crafted item takes time and button presses. At times the game is painfully slow; even in the most action-packed sections you put in effort to move things forward. You’re paid for this work in a grim story and explicit violence.…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 19, 2020 -
ReviewsPS4Space Channel 5 VR: The Kotaku Review
How badly do you want to play another Space Channel 5 game? Your personal level of yearning to see Sega’s long-dormant rhythm game series make a comeback is likely to be proportional to the amount of fun you have with this week’s Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. At its…
By Chris Kohler Published February 25, 2020 -
ReviewsPS4Concrete Genie Takes Too Long To Get To The Fun Stuff
When I started Concrete Genie, a new PlayStation 4 exclusive out now from Pixelopus, I was swept into its world. The game’s setting is lush and alive, its narrative heartwarming: A latchkey kid named Ash constantly revisits the ruins of Denska, the once-thriving port town he grew up in, to doodle. Denska has been abandoned…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published October 8, 2019 -
ReviewsPS4Judgment: The Kotaku Review
Yakuza 6 closed the book on the story of fabled gangster Kazuma Kiryu, but Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s relentless release schedule cannot be stopped. While we know the developer is capable of different (and brilliant) things—see Binary Domain—they’ve decided to stick with the Yakuza formula in all but name with their latest game Judgment, out…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2019 -
ReviewsPS4Days Gone: The Kotaku Review
It’s worthwhile to think about the number of people around you who are waiting for the world to end. There are people who must do it for a living: government employees who specialize in disaster relief and crisis response, civil engineers, military personnel—people who must imagine the end to make sure it never comes. But…
By Joshua Rivera Published April 25, 2019 -
ReviewsPS4Yakuza Kiwami: The Kotaku Review
The Yakuza series combine deep melodrama with exploration through vibrant city streets. Yakuza Kiwami is a remake that recreates the feeling of the original game, adding new features to streamline the experience. It’s a glorious crime story that benefits from a fresh coat of paint. This piece was first published on August 28, 2017. We’re…
Heather Alexandra & Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2019 -
ReviewsPS4Tetris Effect: The Kotaku Review
Tetris Effect takes the pure, near-perfect game design of the classic puzzle game and injects a cocktail of hallucinatory visuals mixed with a sublime soundtrack. It’s a refreshing, modern update to a classic with an optional virtual reality component and more than anything, it’s also the kind of game that I think we desperately need…
By Paul Tamayo Published November 9, 2018 -
ReviewsPS4Spider-Man: The Kotaku Review
Insomniac Games’ new Spider-Man adventure on the PS4 is a fun comic book brawler with some good story beats elevated by a system of acrobatics that features some of the most intuitive and exhilarating movement I’ve ever experienced in a game. It’s extremely fun, if you’re okay with a version of New York City that…
By Ethan Gach Published September 7, 2018 -
ReviewsPS4Yakuza 0: The Kotaku Review
You no longer have an excuse not to play a Yakuza game. I’ve been telling people for years to try this series, all the while knowing deep down that I was asking the impossible. I mean…jumping into such a lore-heavy franchise at its 4th and 5th entry, hundreds of hours deep into conspiracies and personal…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2018 -
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Detroit: Become Human: The Kotaku Review
The PS4’s latest blockbuster moviegame Detroit: Become Human is like something my Alexa would come up with, were I to ask her to write a story about androids with feelings. As I imagine it, the vaguely sinister, sporadically helpful digital assistant that currently resides on my desk would quickly synthesize a bunch of pop sci-fi…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 24, 2018 -
ReviewsPS4God Of War: The Kotaku Review
There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that ends with Kratos and his young son Atreus taking down a massive troll. Dad’s done most of the work, with the arrows fired from Atreus’s bow only contributing a bit of damage to…
By Chris Kohler Published April 20, 2018 -
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Yakuza 6: The Kotaku Review
Yakuza 6 is a game of firsts. It’s also a game of lasts. It’s a first because, having creaked along using outdated tech for a number of recent releases, Yakuza 6 is the first game in the series to feel truly “next-gen” thanks to its new “Dragon” (of course it’s called that) engine. You might…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 17, 2018 -
ReviewsPS4Shadow Of The Colossus: The Kotaku Review
It’s strange to think about it now, 12 years later, but there was a time when I wondered if Shadow of the Colossus was going to be any good. I was a big fan of its predecessor, Ico, and when the doors opened at E3 2005 I beelined for the Sony booth to get a…
By Chris Kohler Published February 6, 2018 -
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Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds: The Kotaku Review
Horizon Zero Dawn was a terrific game. Guess what? Its new expansion, The Frozen Wilds, is also good. For more on the many things that made Horizon Zero Dawn a good game, go read my colleague Patricia Hernandez’s review from February. Developed by Killzone studio Guerrilla Games, it was an open-world action game about a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 6, 2017