Illustration: Respawn Kotaku Game Diary Daily thoughts from a Kotaku staffer about a game we're playing. I don’t play a ton of shooters, but after getting super obsessed with Apex Legends, I wanted to try Titanfall 2. I also wanted my boyfriend to try Titanfall 2, but I’d always rather play with someone sitting on the couch than online. Me and my boyfriend live about 10 minutes from each other—it would just feel silly to me. Since I had already convinced him to grab the game while it was on sale, this weekend I asked if he wanted to boot it up, just to check it out. We ended up having a wonderful time, and through the insight I gained just from passing the controller, I got farther than I had on my own. Since I grew up with an older brother, passing a controller back and forth for single-player games has always felt pretty natural to me. Whenever my brother got frustrated or needed to rest his hands, he passed the controller to me. I didn’t often play well, but sometimes by ge...
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Platforms: PC, Xbox One Reviewed On: Xbox One Developer: Ace Maddox Publisher: Ace Maddox Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer Yes Review code supplied free of charge by the publisher. Flying games are a bit of a rare breed on console, so when one turns up its hard not to get a little excited about leaping into the cockpit and shooting down some unlucky pilots. This one from developer Ace Maddox was actually released on PC back in 2017, so its had a lot of feedback since then and plenty of time for changes to be made before its Xbox One debut on January 12th. During the Second World War there were American pilots in the Chinese airforce helping to repel the Japanese attacks, their shark-nosed design being well-known around the world. It’s this that acts as the backdrop of the game, jumping you between a variety of aircraft on a series of missions that aren’t really interconnected by any sort of story. In fact, the game itself seems a tad confused by who exactly you are, referring to ...