Archive - Andy Farrant
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Andy is co-editor at Outside Xbox, enjoys difficult moral decisions and fights like a cow. You might remember him from such defunct Xbox video channels as Inside Xbox.
Twitter: @farrantula
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Agent 47 Goes to Colombia in New Hitman 2 Gameplay
Hitman 2 gameplay in which Agent 47 is in Colombia to eliminate drug cartel leader Rico Delgado, his PR agent Andrea Martinez, and his top scientist Jorge Franco. Who will be killed with a tattoo gun? Who will be eaten by piranhas? Find out in this gameplay from Hitman 2's Colombia level.
Fallout 76 Gameplay: 7 Things We Did Playing Fallout 76
The news that Fallout 76 would be a multiplayer game left us with the same mix of emotions a person would feel upon entering a Vault Tec vault: excitement, confusion, and the feeling that it could all go very wrong, depending on how things played out. However, we've now seen a little bit of how it does play out, thanks to a three hour hands-on session with the game, and are here to give you a better idea of what to expect when you head out into the West Virginian wasteland next month. Here are seven things we did, in this brand new Fallout 76 gameplay.
7 Ways You're Playing Wrestling Games Wrong (According To Actual Wrestlers)
The temptation is to play wrestling games like beat em ups: you punch your opponent, do your big moves, hit a finisher, and then pin them. But ask any pro wrestler and they'll tell you there's much more to wrestling than just that. So we did! Ask some wrestlers, that is, about the things you need to be doing in the upcoming WWE 2K19.
7 Awesome Abilities That Were More Trouble Than They Were Worth
Sometimes in videogames you will often find yourself in possession of a weapon or ability that seems great at first, only to discover that when you use it, it's more trouble than it's worth. Here are just some of the times we've encountered that very thing.
We Buy A Nightclub in GTA Online's After Hours Update
GTA Online's After Hours update allows players to purchase their own nightclub, a Los Santos hotspot that provides a place for the city's pleasure-seekers to unwind, as well as an opportunity to launder a ton of dirty cash. Join Mike and I as we open our Vespucci Beach destination venue “Maisonette”, soon to be the watchword in unaffordable drinks and seizure-inducing ceiling lights.
Show of the Week: WWE 2K19 and Mike's Backstage Brawl Challenge
WWE 2K19 is on the horizon, promising an expanded roster, a new indie-based career mode, a Daniel Bryan Showcase mode, and more of a sense of fun, according to developers 2K. Join Mike and Andy as they nerd out about wrestling and then later in the show, beat the heck out of each other in a WWE 2K18 backstage brawl as Jane watches on in horror/amusement.
Show of the Week: Day Z on Xbox One and Jane's Typing of the Dead Challenge
Day Z has finally come to the Xbox preview program and Mike is here to let us know if it was worth the wait. Later in the Show, Challenge of the Week sets Jane a task in the greatest zombie game ever made. That's right, The Typing of the Dead.
7 Things Games Shamelessly Stole from Movies
Movies get their ideas from all kinds of places, including games, so it's probably only fair that games are ripping off movies with the kind of shameless abandon of a kid borrowing some else's homework four minutes before it's due to be handed in. Consider seven of our favourite examples.
7 Worst Places to Have a Fight in Fighting Game History: Part 2
We recently toured the very worst places to have a fight in fighting game history, but it turns out we were only scratching the surface, because fighting game characters really will fight in any terrible place. Here are yet more places we'd fight to not to have a fight in.
Witness Geralt of Rivia in Action in Soulcalibur 6 Witcher Gameplay
The upcoming Soulcalibur 6's most high-profile new character is Geralt of Rivia, hero of the Witcher series and a force to be reckoned with thanks to his two swords and mastery of magic signs. See Geralt in action in this Soulcalibur 6 gameplay.
Sci-Fi Shooter Gene Rain Imagines Gears of War, But Bad
Gene Rain is the answer to the question "what if Gears of War, but bad?". It casts you as a member of a "death squad" fighting aliens, monsters and, thanks to some fairly slapdash localisation, "swollen scorpions". Watch Mike and Andy get to grips with Gene Rain in this Xbox One gameplay.
7 Worst Places to Have a Fight in Fighting Game History
From Dracula's Castle to a tomato-throwing festival to actual literal hell, these non-regulation battle arenas are fraught with risks, inconveniences and garment-ruining tomato juice. Think before you take your fight outside of a standard competition ring, by which we mean watch this video why not.
Show of the Week: Fallout 76 Anti-Griefing and Jane's Vault Design Challenge
Fallout 76 is the new Fallout game, in which you'll emerge from Vault 76 in the year 2102, to rebuild society along with a load of other players all with the same goal. Show of the Week talks Fallout 76, and then recruits society's best and brightest, AKA Jane, to design a new Vault to carry on Vault-Tec's important psychological experiments.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay: 8 Things We're Most Excited to Do in RDR2
After months of minute-long teaser videos, Rockstar just dropped six minutes of Red Dead Redemption 2 gameplay and now it's all we can think about. We were already impatient for the 26th of October but now we really can't wait to do the following things.
Vaping Kills in Hitman Contract Vaping Vengeance
In Hitman contract Vaping Vengance we've been hired by Big Tobacco to kill Amos Dexter, the elderly Texan who is in Hokkaido for a lung transplant. The client has demanded 47 electrocute Dexter, to make his death look like a vaping accident and, we assume, his cigarette habit look less lethal by comparison? See how we get on in this Hitman gameplay.
Show of the Week: No Man's Sky and Andy's 5 Star Space Resort Challenge
No Man's Sky Next is a spruced up version of Hello Games' original space exploration game, with updates that include multiplayer and improved base building. If you're anything like us, that means "time to build a five-star space resort", so see how we get on in this week's Show.
12 Overwatch League Finals Highlights That Will Blow Your Mind
The inaugural Overwatch League finals took place at the weekend, with the London Spitfire beating the Philadelphia Fusion across seven tense games of some of the best Overwatch you'll see anywhere. "But I'm a busy person, I don't time to watch all that", you seem to say. Not to worry! Jane and I were there and bring to you now, our 12 highlights from the finals.
7 Surprising Shared Universes in Our Favourite Games
Sometimes when playing a videogame, you'll notice clues that suggest they share a universe with another series, like when Zangief from Street Fighter piledrives Kazuya from Tekken in Street Fighter X Tekken. Subtle, but it's definitely there. Amazingly, sometimes these connections are even more well hidden than this. See for yourself in these following examples.
8 Embarrassing Game Overs We Caused by Being Dumb
There's no shame in getting a game over from losing a tough battle, or failing to complete a puzzle in time. There is however a lot of shame in getting one of these embarrassing game overs, in which we managed to lose the game through stupidity, ineptitude or on one memorable occasion, pissing off a powerful vampire. Oops.
Getting Eaten by a Giant Worm is the Point of Nidhogg 2
Nidhogg 2 is a game in which two players fight across side-scrolling levels, each attempting to be the first to reach their opponent's final screen and be devoured by Nidhogg, a mythological Norse serpent. Watch as Mike and I throw swords, daggers and curses at each other in this Nidhogg 2 gameplay.
The 7 Harshest Continue Screens in Arcade Games
The whole point of arcade machines is to get you to insert more coins, which is why they often employ every trick in the book to get you to keep playing. The cruellest money grabbing technique of all was the continue screen, in which a timer ticked down, imploring you to insert more money, before a terrible fate befell your beloved hero. The more horrible these continue screens were, the more likely you were to pay up, which is why some of these just have to be seen to be believed.
Show of the Week: Control and the Andy Wake Challenge
Control is the new game from Remedy, the studio behind Quantum Break and Alan Wake, and from what Remedy has revealed so far, it's shaping up to be just as weird and unsettling as those previous games. Join us as we talk Control, and stick around as Andy attempts to prove his Remedy game skills in Alan Wake in the challenge of the week.
So You Think You Know Resident Evil: The Quiz
With the announcement that the Resident Evil 2 remake will be here in January, we've all got Resident Evil fever! If you feel the same way, join us and test your Resident Evil knowledge along with Jane and Mike as you wait for 2019 to roll around.
Show of the Week: Resident Evil 2 Remake and Mike's Zombie Brad Challenge
The Resident Evil 2 remake takes players back to the Raccoon City Police Department from the 1998 original but, with the power of Resident Evil 7's RE Engine, makes everything look nastier and, ew, wetter. Join us in Show of the Week as we talk about our time playing the game, and stick around for a throwback challenge as Mike attempts to revisit a classic easter egg in the original Resident Evil 2.
We Jump, Scamper and Burrow Our Way to Glory in Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Behold Ori and the Will of the Wisps gameplay on Xbox One in which Jane and I take luminous spirit creature Ori on a scamper through the arid Windswept Wastes. Get an eyeful of the shifting sands and Ori's burrowing powers in this new gameplay.
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