Review by Harvard L. It’s that time of year again – an open-world game from Ubisoft, this time in its Ghost Recon franchise. Breakpoint is a direct sequel to 2017’s Wildlands, and aims to be a more tactical, action focused alternative to the wacky emergent gameplay of last year’s Far…
Read MoreSay what you will about Ubisoft’s presentation at E3 this year, but it was certainly…unique. The show opened with a distinctly bananas dance performance featuring monocle-wearing giraffes, crabs, and angel-clowns prancing to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. Yes, really. This eventually led into Just Dance 2017. The game will be…
Read MoreWe at Digitally Downloaded may tend to shy away from shooters such as those in the Rainbow Six franchise, but Ubisoft’s new trailer for Rainbow Six: Siege is pretty freaking cool. Steering away from the traditional trailer where the viewer sits idly by, there is a lot to look at…
Read MoreWatching the Splinter Cell franchise develop from its Playstation 2 genesis is like watching the very industry itself go through its stages from that generation to the end of this. Those wonderful, early Splinter Cell games were for their time an incredible achievement in stealth gameplay. Back in the PS2…
Read MoreUbisoft’s presentation was filled with stuff we had already seen plenty of before. We know what to expect with Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed, and we know there’s a Just Dance game on the way. They are exciting games, but not edge-of-the-seat stuff. Then, right at the end of the…
Read MoreThe third DLC pack for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier drops onto the virtual battlefield today with new maps, modes and ‘cheevos. Click on through for the trailer. There’s a total of three new maps, one new mode each for Guerrilla and standard multiplay, a level cap bump (+10),…
Read MoreUbisoft’s latest Tom Clancy title Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is about to get a third helping of DLC in the form of Khyber Strike. The pack has both new multiplayer maps and modes, ups the level cap a bit, and evn has a few new Achievements/Trophies. Khyber Strike DLC features:·…
Read MoreX-Play’s ‘best of’ series continues this week as their picks of the 2010 E3 get PSN discounts. And is that a PSOne classic I see? Yes, off in the distance… it’s Tomba! The first PSOne legacy title to hit the PSN in a good long while is an old school…
Read MoreTom Clancy has always appealed to me as a FPS franchise, in much the same way James Bond does. Like a big, brash, American version of Bond, Tom Clancy tales have it all – counter terrorism, stealth, exotic locations. The alcohol might be a little different – Tom Clancy heroes…
Read MoreYes, the Starhawk Beta is now available for Playstation Plus subscribers- and thank goodness it is! Mainly because other than that, it’s a pretty ho-hum week for downloads on the PSN. There are a bunch of full PS3 games available, which is kind of cool if you missed out on…
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