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GUNHEAD review

Robert Allen — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:06:57 +0000

A head made of guns, and bullets for brains? True to its name, GUNHEAD lets you play as a mech that can equip a quartet of weapons to its alloy noggin. There are a variety of different suits that players can unlock and hop into, each offering a different balance of mobility, defensive strength, and ...

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RoboCop: Rogue City review

Robert Allen — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:58:02 +0000

I’d Buy That for….Fifty Dollars? Since the release of Data East’s 1988 arcade game, developers have long attempted to adapt RoboCop into interactive form. Unsurprisingly, most early attempts concentrated on the action, letting players seize control of the cybernetically enhanced police officer as they gunned down legions of goons. This style of side-scrolling shooting formed ...

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Sprawl review

Robert Allen — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 03:28:19 +0000

A ballet filled with bullet-time and bloodshed Sprawl delivers a capable amalgam of action mechanics. Sure, you’ll likely botch your first attempts at wall running. But before long you’ll discover the timing needed to hug curved surfaces, bound between two adjacent walls, or simply increase your elevation, especially if you’ve played games like Ghostrunner. The ...

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Trepang2 review

Robert Allen — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:23:54 +0000

The big publishers have inundated us with lukewarm first-person shooters. But Trepang, a five-person development team, puts stagnancy directly in its sights. Trepang2 demonstrates that you don’t need a massive team or enormous budget to build an engrossing first-person shooter. In fact, the recent Steam release proves that even seemingly indispensable elements like a sophisticated ...

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Firefights in the Alt-Czechia Underground: Kvark previewed

Robert Allen — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:59:00 +0000

Their hazmat suit might protect them from radiation. But it’s no match for a rusty wrench to the head. Sporadically, the difference between a Steam Early Access build and a full release can be negligible. That’s perfectly fine when the preview plays and offers the substance found in a retail game. But all too often, ...

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Dread Templar review

Robert Allen — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:28:49 +0000

Keep (internal temperatures) cool, shoot demons, and made few mistakes while doing it might be Dread Templar‘s mantra. There’s a sure-fire recipe for first-person shooter success. Keep the pace quick, the firefights intense, and the ‘game overs’ from feeling excessively cheap. Pleasingly, all of those ingredients are found in Dread Templar. After spending over a ...

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High on Life review

Robert Allen — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 01:47:50 +0000

The gags and gunplay are both serviceable but the real enjoyment stems from the exploration of an alien world built of equal parts shiny plastic and grime. The single-player first-shooter campaign grew a bit stagnant in the mid-2000s, as the genre pivoted toward multiplayer competitions. Innovation emerged with the dialog-driven shooter- where plot was just ...

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Turbo Overkill (Early Access) review

Robert Allen — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:31:38 +0000

Remember the time when protagonists would launch a barrage of missiles at foes before giving them the middle finger? Turbo Overkill does, offering an old-school first-person shooter where the carnage is creative, and every hallway is destined to be painted with viscera. Players of a certain age might remember Apogee. Across the 1990s, the publisher ...

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Cultic review

Robert Allen — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:36:03 +0000

Help these murderous zealots free their minds (with a rusty axe) Ken Silverman’s Build Engine had a substantial impact on gaming. Across the 1990s, the engine was employed by respected first-person shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, PowerSlave, and Shadow Warrior. But one of the more noteworthy uses was 1997’s Blood (available on Steam as Blood: ...

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Scathe mini-review

Robert Allen — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:26:20 +0000

Scathe strives to provide the blistering action of yesteryear’s first-person shooters like Doom, Quake, and Hexen, while offering updated visuals. You assume the role of the game’s eponymous warrior, roused by a seemingly benevolent deity to help take out his malevolent twin. For better or worse, explosions of pulpy viscera are favored over exposition. While ...

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Fashion Police Squad review

Robert Allen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:54:08 +0000

Instead of guns and grenades, Fashion Police Squad will have you wield the gears of fabulousness as you give Trendopolis an extreme makeover. Sergeant Des is fixated on cleaning up the streets. But unlike most police officers, he’s abnormally apathetic toward conventional crime. Fashion faux pas are Des’ beat, and if a person is wearing ...

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Shadow Warrior 3 review

Robert Allen — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:16:48 +0000

Sure, Lo Wang is a shadow of his former self, and there’s a bit too much repetition in the game’s final hours, but Shadow Warrior 3‘s blend of thrill-ride navigation and intense gun-and-cleave gameplay is fun for the first few hours. As a franchise, Shadow Warrior persistently reinvents itself with each new iteration. Originally released ...

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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem review

Robert Allen — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:34:26 +0000

Sam’s latest outing sticks to what the series does best: tossing players in fields with dozens of shrieking kamikazes and galloping Kleer. Beyond your usual arsenal, Siberian Mayhem offers a few new ways to put your enemies on ice. I am resentful of what the industry did to the first-person shooter. Sure, there are a ...

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Bright Memory: Infinite review

Robert Allen — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 02:44:18 +0000

Building on its technically skilled predecessor, Bright Memory: Infinite retools its action, resulting in a brief, but thoroughly thrilling, single-player campaign. First, a confession: I used to routinely play Call of Duty for the single-player action. I was completely indifferent to getting my ass kicked around by 50-hour-a-week professionals. And I honestly couldn’t tell you ...

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Writhe review

Robert Allen — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:06:00 +0000

The first-person shooting action comes fast and relentless with Writhe. As long as you’re OK with arcade-style action rather than an extended campaign, this wild wyrm hunt might deserve consideration. Early gaming was skillful at delivering fleeting, adrenaline-generating experiences. But as the industry shifted from coin-ops to consoles, our amusements become lengthier and more sophisticated. ...

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Crysis Remastered (PC) review

Robert Allen — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:52:45 +0000

The question used to be, “Can I Run Crysis”. With this remaster, the new question becomes, “Should I play thirty dollars for substandard rehash?” “Can I Run Crysis” was a rhetorical question at several times. When Crytek released Crysis in 2007, the visually lush open-world first-person shooter became the ultimate test of PC hardware. If ...

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Hellbound review

Robert Allen — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 21:53:24 +0000

Hellbound looks good and plays decently, but suffers from a dearth of weaponry and enemy types, two essentials of the first-person shooter genre. If you’re looking for a three-hour fix of retro fragging goodness, this might do the job, but other options might be work seeking out. Id Software’s 2016 reboot of Doom demonstrated a ...

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Disintegration review

Robert Allen — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:34:29 +0000

Plotlines are often dispensable in real-time strategy and first-person shooter games. Disintegration provides an absorbing motivation for its blend of genres. But the game’s action isn’t as tactical or engaging as it should be. For years, developers have attempted to merge real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. Games like Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger (2009), ...

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Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD review

Robert Allen — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 22:24:54 +0000

Stranger’s Initial Struggle All too often, creativity isn’t rewarded with commercial success. That was the case for the 2005 release of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, an imaginative effort that blended third and first-person action in a setting that tweaked Western tropes. But Electronic Arts restrained their marketing push when a PlayStation 2 iteration didn’t launch alongside ...

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Wrath: Aeon of Ruin (Early Access) Impressions

Robert Allen — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 19:42:46 +0000

Popularized in the early nineties, first-person shooters have enjoyed an immense technological evolution. Visual developments, spearheaded by titles like 2007’s Crysis have led to environments routinely rendered in rich detail. Well-tuned netcode has made it possible for a dozen or more players to compete in fast-paced deathmatches in franchises like Call of Duty. But a ...

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