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Die After Sunset review

Robert Allen — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:49:37 +0000

Dead on Arrival With its stylized visuals, vivid colors, and spacious stages shown from a third-person perspective, Die After Sunset shares a passing resemblance to Fortnight. But any similarity is largely cosmetic. Barcelona-based Playstark has created a simple-player, roguelight affair rather than any kind of battle royale, so you won’t have to deal with obnoxious ...

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Remnant II review

Robert Allen — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:41:57 +0000

Save for some sloppy exposition, each of Remnant II’s other components dexterously gel together. From tense combat in randomized locations, plenty of class options, and just the right amount of loot for customization, Gunfire Games hits the mark. You know those summer blockbusters where the characters trade cringy quips while facing a life-threatening danger? That’s ...

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Wanted: Dead review

Robert Allen — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:55:55 +0000

Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight Wanted: Dead signals its inadequacies early, with cinematics that attempt to ape the simmering intensity of Michael Mann and the cadenced banter of Quentin Tarantino. The opening scene reveals protagonist Hannah Stone locked away in a maximum-security prison cell. Communicating with an unseen warden, she understands the lure of ...

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Rollerdrome review

Robert Allen — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:12:05 +0000

The grace of a ballet dancer and the punch of a sawed-off shotgun brilliantly converge in Rollerdrome. The results are some of the most mesmeric scoring runs you’ll find in 2022. Tutorials can be boring undertakings, putting players through a succession of tedious tests. But surprisingly, I didn’t want Rollerdrome’s lessons to end. Roll7’s (OlliOlli, ...

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Sniper Elite 5 review

Robert Allen — Thu, 26 May 2022 02:45:28 +0000

Rebellion’s latest is yet another long-range bulls-eye for the franchise. Like series star Karl Fairburne, don’t miss this one, especially if you’re a fan of slow-boiled, methodical stealth. World War II lasted for six years. But the Sniper Elite series has been gunning down Nazis for nearly three times as long. Initially restrained by ...

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Hentai vs. Evil review

Robert Allen — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:51:29 +0000

Hentai vs. Evil isn’t all that sexy and has a jumble of enemies that seemed culled from the free asset pool. But it’s not prohibitively priced and might be entertaining in short doses. For many Westerners, the expression ‘hentai’ signals something sexy. Commonly used to describe pornographic manga, anime, and games, the word has been ...

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Zombie Army Trilogy (Switch) review

Robert Allen — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:04:11 +0000

A proficient Switch port of the 2015 title, Zombie Army Trilogy is best played with cooperative partners, online or off. While the Allied opposition of Nazi Germany lasted four fateful years, gamers have been fighting Adolf’s undead legions for even longer. In 2013, Rebellion Developments’ Nazi Zombie Army offered a B-movie remix of Sniper Elite ...

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Zombie Army 4: Dead War review

Robert Allen — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:21:30 +0000

Persistence of the Dead Nearly every movie, television show, comic, and video game depicts the undead as indefatigably resilient. Typically, only severe head trauma puts a stop to their shambling. Rebellion’s Zombie Nazi Army series has demonstrated a similar type of imperviousness. A trio of titles tasked players with gunning down legions of a resurrected ...

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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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Gun Gun Pixies review

Robert Allen — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:24:35 +0000

If someone ever created a softcore send up of Toy Story, it might be a lot like Gun Gun Pixies. Here, the banter between protagonists Buzz and Woody is recreated in the oft-uneasy pairing of military cadets Bee Tan and Kame-Pon. The former girl-crushes incessantly, while the latter serves as the fretting tsukkomi. In execution, ...

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Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition (Switch) Review

Robert Allen — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:02:38 +0000

Years ago, the shooter was one of the most visceral and engaging genres around, consistently delivering frantic firefights that often outmatched the best summer blockbusters. But over time, those once-invigorating action sequences began to lose their impact, as thrill ride-type spectacle took priority over delivering deep and gratifying play mechanics, especially in the single-player arena. ...

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Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash (PC) review

Robert Allen — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:48:14 +0000

Much like artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco Goya, and Édouard Manet, Senran Kagura creator Kenichirō Takaki is obsessed with the female form. But unlike the painters of yesteryear, Takaki-san’s canvas is a console connected to a high-definition television, where he renders breasts that jiggle without a concern for Newtonian physics and brilliant lens flares ...

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Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash review

Robert Allen — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:48:52 +0000

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Graze Counter review

Robert Allen — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:15:42 +0000

Decades of shoot-‘em-up games have imparted a crucial message to players: the enemy projectile should be avoided at all costs. But that enduring adage get challenged in Graze Counter, Hyogo-based Henteko Doujin’s absorbing sophomore PC release. As the game’s moniker implies, players are encouraged to fly uncomfortably close to bullets, allowing bullets to graze the ...

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Sniper Elite 4 review

Robert Allen — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:16:20 +0000

I’ve reconnoitered an elevated perch which offers ideal vantage point for my objective. While I could clandestinely make my way up to the ridge, staying prone and moving from cover points, thinning out enemy numbers seems more prudent- just in case anything goes wrong. I slink behind oblivious guards, killing them with knife or suppressed ...

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Yomawari: Night Alone review

Robert Allen — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:58:04 +0000

While there’s a universality to horror, there’s also a district cultural component as well. After visiting a obake yashiki (or ‘ghost house’) in Japan, known as the Daiba Haunted School, I quickly realized that fright could have remarkably divergent forms. Far removed from the hazily-themed succession of jump-scares that I was used to, the Tokyo ...

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Gun*Gal Double Peace review

Robert Allen — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:34:54 +0000

Although games often flirt with wish fulfillment, few games devote their entire premise around pure fantasy. But the PC release of Gun*Gal: Double Peace is hardly an ordinary game, with a premise that’s preposterously comical and unabashedly pervy. This is an on-rails shooter where you use a pheromone gun to pacify love-obsessed schoolgirls into fits ...

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Sora review

Robert Allen — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:11:37 +0000

Saving a war-torn world from the brink of obliteration is hardly a new impetus for the industry. But when salvation means battling bulky robots and evading deadly missiles, the efforts have traditionally been led by muscle-bound male protagonists. That’s not the case with developer Orange Juice’s Suguri series, where unassuming, albeit cybernetically-enhanced teenage girls combat ...

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Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

Robert Allen — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:59:54 +0000

Earth Defense Force is a series that despises subtlety; everything about the franchise is unabashedly exaggerated. Enemies range from giant ants, colossal spiders, and enormous, bipedal robots. Regardless of species, EDF fills the screen with dozens of each, ensuring a constant state of commotion. Similarly, the game’s sonic output is just as hyperbolic, summoning a ...

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Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space

Eric Blue — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:39:45 +0000

It may come as a surprise to some, but the Earth Defense Force series didn’t actually start with the Xbox 360 cult-classic, Earth Defense Force 2017. In truth, 2017 was the third main-line EDF game from developer, Sandlot. Earlier titles were released as a part of D3 Publisher’s Simple 2000 series of Japanese budget titles. None ...

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