B4B has so much potential and may end up being a near-perfect game. For the time being, it’s a solid bit of zombie slaying fun that’s a cut above some of the other undead shooting gallery games out there.
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Deathloop is awash in retro 60’s style but at the cost of real substance. Clunky gunplay and only a handful of special abilities hold what could have been a great game back. The time travel plot had promise but untimely goes unrealized.
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Encased is a good example of a game that fully embraces the long list of old school RPGs we all know and love but struggles between being overly faithful to game design now twenty years old and what modern audiences are used to and, to a certain extent, have come to expect when they buy a modern game.
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PSVR is in an interesting place these days. It’s the tail end of the device’s life, PSVR2 is on the horizon for next year, and Sony has a bit of a problem getting PS5s into the hands of gamers who want them. This presents a unique challenge for PSVR as without new software, headset owners have nothing to play and potential buyers might hold off until the new device arrives.
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The fantasy RPG is a genre that will never die. Far, far in the future when we’re all plugged into the matrix we’ll no doubt have the option to enter any number of virtual realities full of swords, dragons, and wizards. And thanks to monolithic franchises like The Witcher, Dungeons and Dragons, and The Elder Scrolls, the genre is teeming with games that more than deserve countless hours of your free time.
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The reality is that, while yes, this is an unusual platform for Dr. King’s message, it doesn’t quite devolve things into pure online memery.
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Left 4 Dead was one of those games that cast a new mould that many would copy and fewer still would truly improve on. The four-player co-op genre nowadays has people hunting down everything from ghosts to robots (the very excellent G.T.F.O. and Phasmophobia come to mind) but there will always be a special place in the heart of every gamer lucky enough to be there for L4D in its prime.
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There’s an old saying: “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” but it says nothing about improvement. Which is exactly what the folks at Dark Crystal Games have been doing with Encased. The classic RPG formula you’ll remember from games like Icewind Dale and Fallout gets a makeover that elevates this game from a simple love letter to a bygone era into something definitely worth your time.
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Unbound has familiar touchstones of other modern side-scrolling platformers: Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Limbo, Inside, Cuphead, take your pick. It’s almost a formula by now. Throw a nice color pallet, a mystical world, and boom you’ve got a game.
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There’s a bit of a drought in VR releases lately, especially on the higher end, so it wasn’t without great expectations that Sniper Elite: VR hit headsets last week. While some of the mechanics the franchise is known for translate well enough to the medium, the rest of the game has problems that make the experience a bit of a let-down overall, especially for a $30 price tag.
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The Expeditions series from Logic Artists has like the steady march of history been slowly building a name for itself in the historical action roleplay genre. While Northern Europe has been a big focus for developers in recent years, (Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Mordhau, Mount and Blade II: Banner Lord all come to mind) Logic Artists are looking towards ancient Rome.
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The Microsoft showcase at E3 was the perfect mission statement for the brand that gave a clear vision and roadmap for the future and why exactly you should consider buying a Series X.
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Ubisoft’s hour-long E3 keynote feels like it could have been done and dusted in fifteen minutes given that the company isn’t out to capture new territory with gamers by, say, announcing a free to play Battle Royale to compete with Warzone or launching a whole new franchise.
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Though they don’t come out and say it I get the feeling the setup for Terra Nil has something to do with the apocalypse. There are no people around and as you start things are, well, pretty dead. Like, literally dead. But it’s your job to bring a broken world back to life and you’re going to use a number of eco-friendly tools to get the job done.
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The end of the world never seems to ever truly be the end. Whether it’s nuclear fire reducing our world to a smoking ash heap or the undead rising from their graves to topple civilization, humanity just seems to bounce back. Well, in games, books, and movies at least.
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Since I’m old as hell I can remember booting up my Gateway computer (look it up, seriously) and hopping in the pilot seat of my lumbering death-factory to play some Mechwarrior 3. And it was awesome. Whether it was stomping buildings to dust, spraying down enemy mechs with heavy machine guns, or using the cool image magnifier to pinpoint-aim a rocket, hours of fun were had.
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Day’s Gone is getting a second chance at the spotlight and after two years since its console release the game may find better reception with actual players than the over-intellectualized gatekeepers of the mainstream gaming press. When appreciated for what it is, and not obsessing over one or two spots it may have missed the mark, Day’s Gone is more than worth your time.
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The fight for survival is the story of life itself. If you think about it, everything is trying to kill us. There are natural disasters, murder hornets – *ahem* – deadly viruses, and good old-fashioned diseases and tumors, or a thing called brain aneurysms. Life is a fragile thing, so why not get in some virtual practice at staying alive?
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