We survey the war wounds scoring the bodywork of our station wagon. Out here, we only have each other. Unfortunately, it’s so much more than just the odd ding; we’re lucky to have made it back to our hub of investigations inside Oppy’s Body Shop in one piece.
We’ll get to why in just a minute but first comes necessary maintenance on our car. We fill the tank, then flip the switch to discharge any lingering current still flowing through our onboard hardware. Blue electricity arcs all around the station wagon – how’s that for firing up the Quattro? Setting aside our playful confusion between various models of car, it’s time to sort out those dings. Ironing out the dents in the bodywork isn’t done in realistic fashion – in real life you can’t smooth out a ding simply by aiming a blowtorch at it for all of ten seconds – but an edge of engaging tactility remains. As we replace worn tyres and blown-out headlamps, each part glows before erupting into a cascade of silver nuts. Like we said, the game’s not going for verisimilitude – and that’s before we get into all of the ways the rules are different here in the Olympic Exclusion Zone.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
15 years!? Holy depressing passing of time, Batman!
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
Keeping us engaged with the carat-and-stick approach
Alan Wake 2: Night Springs
Keepin' it weird
GRAND THEFT AUTO VI
The ruler of the crime sandbox returns
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2
Up to your pauldrons in science-fiction action
DELTA FORCE: HAWK OPS
Teaching an old hawk new tricks
Welcome to the Roughnecks
Blasting bugs and shooting the breeze with Starship Troopers game lead Peter Maurice and star Casper Van Dien
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES
Bricks and stones may break robo dino bones
ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS
Presenting protagonist double trouble
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
A delightfully devilish refresh