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Fracked
After playing the demo for Fracked, I was feeling very hyped for the game. Well, the full game has landed and my excitement was mostly justified. Fracked is fun, immersive, gorgeous, and polished. It’s Blood & Truth with full locomotion. But it’s also too short. You can finish the game...
Rims Racing
Imagine growing up in urban Philadelphia, the only daughter of a veteran motorcycle cop who was killed in action when you were a young girl. Your dad’s beloved bikes sit shrouded like corpses in the garage until one day in your late teens, something compels you to pull off the...
Paint the Town Red is a fascinating title, to say the least, an adjective that definitely translates to all aspects of the game. Gameplay, graphics, and game modes are unique, for both better or worse. You’ll either LOVE the game right out of the gate or immediately hate it.
Road 96
Interactive dramas often appear to have more narrative branches than they actually contain. Although games like Heavy Rain can take you on wildly different paths, they start at a designated point with decisions at pivotal points altering your route. With 148,268 story permutations, Road 96 promises to make everyone’s trip...
Foreclosed
Plenty of characters have made the transition from comics to video games but only a handful of titles have tried to merge the two mediums. Foreclosed looks to create an authentic interactive graphic novel with panel-based gameplay but can this audacious release strike the perfect balance between gameplay and narrative?
Grime
Soulslike has been a genre long enough now that we all know what it means. We can argue about the particulars but it usually suggests action RPGs with a specific style of precise, timing-based combat that’s unforgiving of mistakes, coupled with stamina management and a reliance on the player developing...
In the midst of the panicked scramble to get next gen systems out the door, certain world events have delayed both hardware releases as well as game releases. While the lack of hardware is starting to catch up to demand, the lack of software has seen a greater influx of...
Chernobylite
Thanks to the lack of Soviet transparency, there was, and still is a great deal of mystery around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Was the fatality count accurate? What about the subsequent cases of radiation sickness or birth defects or weird natural anomalies? Did the meltdown create a rift in...
If interviews are to be believed, when members of the development team at Norsefell were planning their game, they looked into their trend-predicting crystal ball and deduced that the biggest things were, or would be, co-op games and Viking games.
Out of Line
Video games have transported us to a range of wonderful and often wacky worlds. Combining interesting characters with unique environments, indie games have been at the forefront of our trip across vast universes. With gorgeous hand-painted backdrops, Out of Line aims to take us to a serene world that has...
I have a complicated history with Skyward Sword. I love the Zelda franchise with my whole heart, but I had a terrible time with this entry. The motion controls, the level design, the constant handholding, all of it rubbed my nerves raw. By the end, I was persisting out of...
What makes a fictional story exceed its scope and become something more? It’s the same quality that makes a video game rise above its kin. Verisimilitude. The ring of truth. Or, if you prefer, authenticity. Or better yet, feeling real. Sniper Elite VR has that vibe. And because of it,...
