Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 | Review

The Tony Hawk series of games are perhaps the only sports games I have ever enjoyed. The first one I ever got my hands on was Pro Skater 3 back in 2001 and it was really like nothing else I had ever played. Instead of being a straight up simulator of real life skateboarding, it knew that in order to make a good video game based on real skateboarding you would need to combine the logic of video games with real life skateboarding. So what you end up with is a game where you skate around locations inspired by real life, doing real skateboarding tricks, but you're also able to jump (or ollie for all of us who understand skateboarding terminology) to super human heights, grind on rails to create earthquakes, break into a haunted house, stop criminals at an airport and all sorts of other crazy things. It's a skateboarding video game that knows it's a video game.

Super Meat Boy | Review

Developer: Team Meat

Publisher: Team Meat
Reviewed on: PlayStation 4
Available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, PlayStation Vita
Released: October 20th 2010

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore platformer released in 2010 by an independent developer; Team Meat. It's based on the online Flash game 'Meat Boy' (playable online and on 'The Basement Collection') and is available on most game systems including the Xbox 360, PC and is brand new to the PlayStation 4. I'm reviewing the PS4 version, despite the picture of the PC version's box at the top of this article. The PS4 version doesn't have a physical release so I had to improvise.

Although the same game mechanically, the PS4 version is primarily different because of the new soundtrack. The Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game has a soundtrack created by Danny Baranowsky (which was universally praised) however the new PS4 version of the soundtrack is completely different and was created by many other famous names including Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans (The Binding of Issac), David Scatliffe (Hotline Miami) and Laura Shigihara (Plants vs Zombies). The reason for the strange change in music is because Danny Baranowsky retained the rights to the original soundtrack and didn't allow his music to be used for the PS4 re-release.