Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Review
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is an excellent epilogue to 2022’s standout sequel. While not hugely revelatory with its story, Burning Shores offers several new gameplay elements and character moments to easily cement itself as a “must-play” piece of DLC. Picking up immediately following the events of Forbidden West, Burning Shores takes Aloy to the titular location in se...[Read More]
Jedi: Survivor Preview
2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order was somewhat of a renaissance moment for EA’s Star Wars games. It boasted a spectacular action-packed story filled with rich characters, exhilarating worlds to explore, and some of the best lightsaber-wielding combat to ever be in a video game. Back in 2019, I said that Jedi Fallen Order, “..mixes the magic of Star Wars with the stell...[Read More]
Dead Space (Remake) Review
I never played the original Dead Space in 2008. It’s not for a lack of trying; in fact, I had played through the opening 30 or so minutes on PS3 a month or so before the PS4 was set to release. Horror games back then were never my thing (I’m a big ol’ scaredy cat), and it took 2014’s Alien: Isolation for the genre to break through and grab me. Fast forward to 2023 and we finally have what can only...[Read More]
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Review
Asymmetric multiplayer games have seen a huge rise in popularity over the years. Friday the 13th: The Game, Dead by Daylight, and to a lesser degree Predator: Hunting Grounds, have all taken the world by storm with their delightfully addicting gameplay. As with those games, the genre seems to be ripe with possibilities when it comes to beloved IP. But one obvious franchise has eluded the adored 4v...[Read More]
Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Review
A long time ago in the year 2020, I reviewed a little remake of a classic PS2-era game entitled Destroy All Humans!. And now as a wisened old man, I am taking a look at its sequel: Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed. What a grand reminder that as things continue to evolve and change, some things will always remain the same. And in this case, DAH2: Reprobed is about as close to “same-y” as you can get...[Read More]
Rollerdrome Review
Rollerdrome, simply put, is a mix of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Max Payne, and The Running Man. Skating along trying to build up combos while dodging bullets is deceptively easy to learn, and excruciatingly hard to master. I’ll freely admit that I’m pretty terrible at playing Rollerdrome; my hand-eye coordination could never seem to catch up to what the game needed me to do. Wheth...[Read More]
Stray Review
Stray is everything you’d want out of a game playing as a cat, even if it never fully reaches the potential it lays out for itself. Ask any random person on the street to name the one animal they’d want to play in a video game, and I’d wager to say that at least one out of every 3 people would say a cat. Stray takes everything that we love about cats and puts as much as it possibly can into an 8-h...[Read More]
The Quarry
The Quarry is not only Supermassive Games’ best game since Until Dawn, but it’s also their most replayable game. Each playthrough consistently hits the 8-hour mark, The Quarry is fast-paced, exciting with every new reveal, and violently horrifying. Boasting the best performance capture and actor performances to date, Supermassive has been able to weave a story that kept me engaged on every level, ...[Read More]
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
“I feel the good in you, the conflict.”—Luke Skywalker, Return of the Jedi. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been a long time coming, and is seemingly a galaxy away from what it could have been. The biggest expectation I had for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was for it to completely revolutionize Lego games as we know them and directly focus its design on those of us who grew up with th...[Read More]
Elden Ring Review
Elden Ring is astounding. From its deliberate open-world design that incorporates Soulsborne gameplay mechanics, to its bountiful and intriguing lore, Elden Ring is able to deliver a game that shows a spectacular amount of restraint. Trust in a player’s ability is paramount to Elden Ring, as it gives the player everything they need to succeed; they just need to utilize it. The game knows whe...[Read More]
Horizon: Forbidden West Review
Composing a sequel to a mega-hit is no easy feat, especially one that’s expected to supersede everything that came before it. Many franchise’ before have fallen victim to this Herculean feat; although many have risen to the occasion. Star Wars had Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather had its Part II. Horizon: Forbidden West is this franchise’s Empire, with everything that comes with it. ...[Read More]
Battlefield 2042
First-person shooters are in a weird place right now. The Warzones and the Fortnites of the world seem to have a firm grip on the game industry, with similar looking games seemingly releasing every single week. Even Halo: Infinite, a game many assumed would be a doomed release when it was revealed mid-2020, is shaping up to be one of the most impactful releases of the year. Enter Battlefield 2042,...[Read More]