I’ve just driven my first route in Croydon: London Bus Simulator, and the twenty minute ride has transformed the way I think about Roblox. Although the complete absence of AI traffic is a big pill to swallow if your usual…
An hour after firing up RotorSim, Immaculate Lift’s SimCopter-reminiscent chopper game, for the first time, the campaign progress bar is a third full, and I’m wondering whether I’ll have seen all there is to see by lunchtime. While I don’t…
Allen Gies, the writer behind much of Burden of Command’s vivid prose, has penned a 900,000 word interactive novel about tank warfare in North Africa. Hopefully, the excruciatingly daft moment early in World War II Armored Recon where you get…
A combat flight sim that forewent flak or a sub sim that didn’t include death-by-depth-charge would get ripped to shreds by reviewers, so why aren’t firefighting sims taken to task for leaving out two of the most dangerous aspects of…
Deep down I doubt any armchair hose jockey wants a totally realistic fire brigade sim. If forty percent of in-game call-outs were false alarms caused by confused or malfunctioning fire alarms, extinguish-em-ups would alienate all but the most patient and…
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this title turned out to be the simmiest firefighting diversion I play this week. Not only has Bochum-based developer Crenetic faithfully reproduced German firefighting techniques, it has created remarkably detailed facsimiles of the…
Artur Tabiszewski, what, in the name of all that is combustible, were you thinking? As you are listed in the credits as Fire Commander’s designer, producer, and lead programmer, I’m guessing you are the person who made the bewildering decision…
Beware! The air quality on Tally-Ho Corner is going to be abysmal this week, and thanks to the tangle of quivering hoses on our puddle-strewn drive, there will be trip hazards galore. Keen to address one of my stranger blindspots…
V is for Verbose sleuthing. It’s a fairly safe bet fans of The Case of the Golden Idol and The Rise of the Golden Idol will enjoy the Confidential Killings trial. The game’s short but tangled whodunnits are set in…
Q is for Quick stogie card. Significantly larger and younger than all previous occupants of this slot, the thirty cards that make up ‘Soldiers of Waterloo’ were issued in 1995 and came in packets of Castella cigars. The text on…
L is for Largely forgotten rally sim. The first video game worthy of the tag ‘simulation’ wasn’t a flight sim but a 2D side-on recreation of the sport that’s currently monopolising the THC idiot box. An attraction at Brookhaven National…
F is for Flying pencils added to Scramble. Slitherine’s thoroughly 3D BoB wargame has some Schnellbombers at long last. While the new Do 17s must run the gauntlet of player-controlled Spits and Hurricanes, there’s no danger of them suffering the…