What we've been playing – cops, kicks, cups and climbs
21st June
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, we’ve got a bumper crop! Alex tries out being a police officer, Tom O tries out being a footballer, Dom excels as a monk, and Connor lets it die.
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
The Precinct, PC
My internet went down the other day. When this happens, it’s always pretty stunning to realise how reliant we are on a constant internet connection; most of the stuff I’d been playing requires some sort of internet validation. Even though you can play Magic the Gathering: Arena against bots, you can’t do it without a connection. While you can boot Hitman, it feels a bit pointless to play it without the persistent progression online hooks provide – something that feels likely to make the Switch 2 version more irrelevant than it should be. So, with Virgin Media bequeathing me 24-hours of downtime, I had to find something truly offline.
