Review: Echo (PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S.

A shooter that manages to be intelligent is a rare, precious thing. Not just intelligent in the sense of it being “anti-war” or subversive, such as games like the recent Wolfenstein titles or Spec Ops: The Line. Nor just in the way that it plays with a long-established formula to do something genuinely different, as we see in titles like Superhot. No, I’m talking about games that are bona fide philosophical in nature and intent, and muse on the kind of topics that people doing those art degrees that everyone who hasn’t done them likes to think are useless. Those degrees are not actually useless, of course, because being able to think with philosophical depth is important in being able to analyse and understand the world, and we need a lot more of that going around.

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