Martin Robinson

Reviews

22 reviews
Need for Speed: Unbound
80
Here’s a familiar tale. A new Need for Speed comes out to zero fanfare and turns out to be pretty decent; decent enough…
Bayonetta 3
Eurogamer
80
Since its inception as part of Osaka studio Platinum's first wave of games, Bayonetta has been many things - sexy, styl…
Splatoon 3
Eurogamer
80
When it comes to Nintendo's most significant releases of the past 10 years, most would - quite rightly - point towards …
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
100
Monolith Soft closes out its loosely connected trilogy of epic RPGs with its most adaptable, malleable and high-spirited adventure yet.
Air Twister
Eurogamer
60
It took what felt like several eternities for Yu Suzuki to release his last dream project, the teases and trials that l…
F1 22
Eurogamer
80
F1's bold new era is just hitting the halfway point of its inaugural season, and it turns out it's a lot like the F1 of…
Drainus
Eurogamer
80
Old school shooters have always been where you'll find video games at their most direct, and the genre's side-scrolling…
Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World
80
When Masahiro Sakurai first drew a couple of stumpy arms, big feet and blushing cheeks on a little pink blob, he was an…
Gran Turismo 7
Eurogamer
80
There once was a time when Gran Turismo was everything. If you visited a video game store at the turn of the century yo…
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
80
Dying Light 2 is an ugly game. Taking place some 15 years after Techland's parkour-fuelled 2015 open world original, it…
Windjammers 2
Eurogamer
80
Tinkering with the classics is always asking for trouble. There's the legion of fans to satiate, the details you daren'…
The Good Life
Eurogamer
60
Sometimes, it's nice to allow yourself to be surprised by a video game. Heading into The Good Life, I didn't know much …
Cruis'n Blast
Eurogamer
80
A question that pops up often around these parts is where have all the arcade racers gone, and one answer, it turns out…
No More Heroes III
Eurogamer
80
In one of the many, many, many fourth-wall breaking interludes in No More Heroes 3, series star Travis Touchdown guests…
F1 2021
Eurogamer
80
The headline news, really, is what hasn't changed. Having gained momentum over the years until it's become, for my mone…
Game Builder Garage
80
When I first got a proper glimpse of Game Builder Garage last month, its premise was a promising one: here's a chance f…
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown
80
Given that it's been nine years since we last saw the series - and some 15 whole years since the last mainline release …
Huntdown
Eurogamer
80
It's an incontrovertible truth that the recipe for the ultimate Friday night in involves a stash of cheap beer, some ch…
R-Type Final 2: Ultimate Edition
60
The name is dumb, of course, but I'll take it. Thanks to a certain long-running JRPG series the word Final has lost mos…
Pacer
Eurogamer
60
I was recently idly wondering whether we'd ever see another true WipEout again when I decided to download the Omega Col…