• Impact Reviews: Fallout 4

    Everyone has been waiting for this game for years. Fallout 4 was likely the most hyped videogame of 2015, and now it is released Impact asked Aidan Collett to provide a review. He focuses especially on the new settlement mechanics and its hugely detailed world, showing that the new sequel isn’t...
  • Romance in videogames

    As we come up to Valentines Day, we need to discuss why videogames have such as bad rap for the portrayal of relationships. With some notable exceptions such as the Witcher 3, relationships in games have either come across as token, awkward or completely sexist. This even goes as...
  • Best of 2015 – Metal Gear Solid 5

    Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain of the Metal Gear chronology, is set in the mid-eighties just before the time frame of the first ever game in the series. Put simply, it is one of the best games to be released on the newest generation of consoles and potentially...
  • Impact Reviews – Halo 5: Guardians

    The new Halo 5 story line is, in my opinion, refreshingly original. The campaign follows the exploits of the newly-introduced character Spartan Jameson Locke who commands the four-man squad of Fireteam Osiris. However the plot isn’t focused solely around Locke, in 3 missions the player takes control of the...
  • Impact Reviews – Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

    Here we are, nearly three weeks after the launch of Blizzard’s closure to its epic saga, Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void. I’ll try to avoid spoilers, but there is very little which compares to freezing every enemy on the map and letting rip with every piece of firepower...
  • League of Legends World Championships 2015

    League of Legends has become, in recent years, one of the most recognised e-sports of all time: with 11.5 million players actively playing each month, beating its common rival DOTA 2 (which has a measly 500,000). It comes as no surprise therefore that the World Championship 2015, or ‘Worlds’...
  • Impact Reviews: Mordheim, City of the Damned

    Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based squad game, a la XCOM, with a 3rd person over the shoulder perspective similar to the popular MOBA Smite. All the classics of turn based squad strategy are present: highly satisfying squad positioning, inexplicably terrible soldier aim, consumables you hoard out...