Delta's Variety Corner

Spec Ops: The Line is a third person action shooter developed by Yager and published by 2K. Yager developed the title as they wanted to criticise what they viewed as a romanticising of war in the media. And so they consulted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now and set out to create a narrative experience that would make people think more about the actions they take in videogames. But how well did they pull of their narrative? Is it the story to end all stories or is there room for improvement? I'll be finding out in this review. Spec Op's story takes place in a devastated Dubai, after a massive sandstorm has wiped out the city. You play as Captain Martin Walker, a Delta operative leading a team on a scouting mission. Your objective is to scout out the city and find survivors. On contact you are to return to waiting US forces outside of the 'Storm wall'. However the situation is quickly complicated when you hear a distress signal from US f...

XCOM 2 is the followup to 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Unlike many other titles, XCOM 2 chooses to play off of the bad ending from the first game. This meant that the gameplay had to be overhauled in order to suit the new style of play that would be introduced in this game. But do these additions help or hinder the game? And does it live up to the legacy of the series as a whole? As XCOM 2 is based off of the bad ending of the first game, the gameplay has been redesigned to focus around guerilla warfare. A lot more of the missions are hit and run based objectives, where you have to get in, complete the task and get out again in as short a time as possible. This of course, means the introduction of timers. There were timed missions in the first XCOM game, but they were generally relegated to Council missions, and usually only Bomb Disposal, where you could increase the amount of time available to you by disabling power nodes scattered across the map. XCOM 2 has no such luxury, you...