I wasn’t sold on Splatoon at first. I had no love of the modern children’s cartoon aesthetic that I saw in trailers and video, and while I did appreciate that Nintendo was looking to get involved in the shooter genre in a more family friendly, bloodless, and original way, I…
Read MoreWhen Shaan had a chance to play Wolfenstein: The New Order last year, he was surprised to see a title that had been somewhat forgotten over the years receive so much love from the development team. By now, Wolfenstein should sneak up on nobody, but this prequel still delivers on a…
Read MoreBlue Estate is an rails shooter much in the vein of the the House of the Dead series. It is also based on a comic by Viktor Kalvachev & Kosta Yanev. Now, I have never read the comics so I can’t say if this game stays true to the story…
Read MoreThe Order: 1886 is at its best when it’s not trying to be a game. The development team wanted to deliver a highly cinematic, narrative-driven experience, and in literal terms it achieved this. The Order: 1886 is, indeed, a narrative-driven experience. So before we get on to the game side…
Read MoreVD-dev is a small, Nintendo handheld specialist developer that has a history of making games that really push whatever hardware it is working on to its limits. It produced a two full 3D games on the Game Boy Advance (Driv3r and Asterisx and Obelix XXL); a console that was really…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. If any genre was in need of ‘something different’, it was the shooter. Sunset Overdrive succeeds in multiple ways, because the team has found a way to fuse several different elements into the gameplay and managed to create something different both in how the game handles,…
Read MoreImpressions by Sam M. The Order: 1886 is a different game. Rather than presenting itself in full screen, developer Ready at Dawn has chosen for a cinematic resolution, resulting in two horizontal black bars appearing at the top and bottom of the screen. This aesthetic decision is complemented by the…
Read MoreReview by Shaan J. Having spent the better half of a year on Steam’s Early Access program, Wrack has finally made its way to a proper, full release. Billed as an old-style first-person shooter, Wrack follows in the footsteps of shooters old (Doom and Shadow Warrior, just to name a few),…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. A little more than a year after The Last of Us was released to universal acclaim on the PlayStation 3, a remastered version of Naughty Dog’s critically and commercially successful game has landed on the PlayStation 4. As with any “next gen remake,” there are questions…
Read MoreReview by Max S. I have to start this review with an admission: I have not played enough of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. I haven’t tried out all the modes; I am so bad at the game that I still feel uncomfortably venturing past the beginner’s mode Welcome Mat.…
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