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Transport Fever 3 does not attempt to reinvent the transport-management formula, but it does make a convincing case for why the series still has plenty of room to grow. Urban Games has taken the foundations of Transport Fever 2 and added considerably more depth to the way goods, passengers, businesses and cities interact, turning what could have been a straightforward sequel into a more demanding logistics simulation. The basic premise remains wonderfully focused: connect places, move what they need, make money and gradually build a transportation network that spans more than a century of technological progress. What makes it compelling is how quickly those simple objectives start producing complicated problems. A profitable route can create traffic, noise or pollution, an expanding city creates new demands, and a seemingly sensible investment can become an expensive liability if the surrounding logistics network cannot support it. It is still a game about moving things from A to B, but the increasingly elaborate ways in which that process can go wrong are what give it its character. Continue reading “Transport Fever 3 review”

EA Sports FC 27 once again finds Electronic Arts trying to answer the same annual question: how much can be changed without disrupting a football formula that already works? The answer this time is a little more interesting than usual, mainly because The Grounds gives the series a genuinely different space in which to play. The new social hub does not transform EA Sports FC into an entirely different game, but it does broaden the experience beyond the familiar cycle of matches, Career and Ultimate Team. At the same time, much of the underlying package remains recognisably the same, making this another difficult recommendation for players who already own last year’s edition purely on the strength of its incremental improvements. Continue reading “EA Sports FC 27 review (PS5)”

Kalanoro is the kind of game that makes a strong first impression simply by refusing to take itself too seriously. Developed by Red Raketa Studio and published by New Tales, this action-platformer heads to a colorful version of Lemuria inspired by Madagascar’s folklore, where a young protagonist named Kalakely sets out to oppose the witch Raneny by doing something rather more unusual than raising an army: she has to form a band. It is a deliberately silly premise, but one that gives the adventure a personality that many smaller platformers struggle to establish. Kalanoro is not trying to reinvent the genre, and its story is ultimately more of a vehicle for moving between locations than a particularly deep narrative, but its combination of folklore, environmental exploitation, music and goofy humor makes the journey easy to like. Continue reading “Kalanoro review (PS5)”