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by Martin Mulrooney | 14/08/2024 · 11:59 pm

GAME REVIEW – Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered (PC and PlayStation 4)

By Marty Mulrooney

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered is a five-episode point-and-click adventure game (collected here as a complete package) starring everyone’s favourite six-foot-tall canine detective in a suit and his hyperkinetic rabbity-thing sidekick. Following on from Skunkape Game’s previous remasters of Sam & Max Save the World in 2020 and Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space in 2021, this third and final season of Sam & Max dusts off the original 2010 release from the Telltale Games archives and brings it bang up to date for modern PCs and consoles in 2024.

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GAME REVIEW – The Night Is Grey (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

The Night Is Grey is a 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Whalestork Interactive, a five-person team based in Portugal. As the first game developed by the studio, it’s nothing if not ambitious; featuring hand-drawn characters animated at 12 frames per second (the same framerate as the original Broken Sword), with over 50 digitally painted, fully animated panoramic backgrounds, this is an indie game that immediately stands out from the crowd with its striking visual presentation.

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GAME REVIEW – Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake (PlayStation 5)

By Marty Mulrooney

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake brings Swedish film director Josef Fares’s critically acclaimed fairy tale platforming adventure to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows. Originally developed by Starbreeze Studios and released in 2013, this modern remake from Italian developer Avantgarden S.r.l. switches from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 5 – adding a high-fidelity, 4K lick of paint to a timeless classic that still packs an emotional punch over a decade later.

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GAME REVIEW – Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft brings back the iconic first three games in the Tomb Raider series – Tomb Raider (1996), Tomb Raider II (1997) and Tomb Raider III (1998) – to modern consoles and PC. Developed and published by Aspyr, who previously helped port the first six Tomb Raider games to macOS in the late ’90s/early 2000s, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered adds new features across all three games, including the ability to switch between original and enhanced graphics and classic and modern controls, a photo mode, health bars for boss battles and hundreds of unlockable achievements.

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