To say that the shooter market in 2022 is bursting at the seams would be an understatement. Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Fortnite—all are household names at this point. But despite the visual and mechanical differences, most still boil down to pointing an AK-47-adjacent-looking weapon at a target and pulling …
Returnal should not be a roguelike, and I say this as someone who rather enjoys that genre. It’s a remarkable game in so many ways: full of the sort of frantic yet precise action that Housemarque is unrivalled at creating, but on a whole new level of scale and ambition, …
Jetskis are fun. Water guns are fun. It follows, then, that a game combining the two would be fun. Enter Kandagawa Jet Girls, a jetski racing game that mixes in a healthy dose of water gun-based shooting action, from the creative minds behind Senran Kagura. I know what you’re thinking: …
Having never played a Remedy game before (I know, I know), I didn’t really know what to expect from Control. The impression I got from pre-release marketing was another entry in the game industry’s endless list of third-person cover shooters, except maybe with a slightly more intelligent story than your …
Blood and Truth wants nothing more than to be an interactive, virtual reality spin on on the classic cockney gangster film. Set against a gritty London backdrop, it sees you caught up in an escalating gang war—with all the high-octane stunts and wild setpieces that come with that. The good …
The Sniper Elite series has come a long way over the years. The 2005 original was rough around the edges but built on an effective concept: a WWII-era stealth action game with a focus on long range marksmanship and life like bullet physics. By 2017’s Sniper Elite 4, the series …
One of the most memorable things about Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light was their sense of place. Both games are claustrophobic and constricting, sometimes to the point of frustration, but that was in keeping with the very ideas that the games (and the books they’re based on) wanted to …
By Ginny Woo Freelancer. You’ll have to get used to being called that very quickly in Anthem. People say it with varying degrees of scorn and admiration within the ecosystem of the game. It rolls off the tongues of government agents, is spat out by disgruntled civilians, and it even …
Inspired by the pulp adventures of the early 20th century, Strange Brigade is a curious thing. It’s one part puzzle-riddle archaeology adventure game and one part co-op focused horde shooter, wrapped up in the campy presentation of a 1930s B-movie serial. That mix of influences could easily collapse in on …
Bullet Witch is a clunky, messy game. It was clearly made on a very low budget, and it looked dated even when it first came out for Xbox 360 in 2006. If you’re the kind of person that needs your games to be polished and pristine, with production values coming …
