HIGH Dismembering foes like a sword-swinging badass.
LOW Every single time Abraxas opens his mouth.
WTF No brightness slider in a modern triple-A game? Are you kidding?
Tag: FPS
Phantom Fury Review
HIGH Fast action. Clever hidden items. Lots of interactivity.
LOW Backtracking. Damage sponge enemies. Crashes and bugs.
WTF Why are the Bowling Bombs so addicting?
PREVIEW: Abiotic Factor
HIGH A fresh, yet nostalgic approach to the survival genre.
LOW When making soup is an unlockable skill, we’ve gone too far.
WTF I didn’t think a toilet minigame would be such a big selling point.
PREVIEW: Selaco
Waking up in a hospital is never a good sign. Even worse when that hospital is on a space station currently under siege by terrorists. Such is a day in the life of Dawn, a futuristic super-cop and the protagonist of Selaco.
Chop Goblins Review
HIGH Hitting a huge group of goblins with the wand for the first time.
LOW The final third feels like a letdown.
WTF The musical mid-game box battle.
Borderlands 3: Ultimate Edition (Switch) Review
HIGH Frenetic and infectious shooting.
LOW The main story.
WTF Pen and Teller-spoofing characters?!
Trepang2 Review
HIGH Fast, frenetic action featuring enough guns to choke a camel…
LOW… except when it forces undercooked horror sections down the player’s throat.
WTF Would it hurt to signpost objectives and pathways more clearly?
PREVIEW Witchfire
Witchfire is a roguelike first-person shooter with a fantasy theme. Its world is under attack from witches and his holiness the Pope has sent witch hunters to deal with them with magic and firearms.
System Shock (2023) Review
HIGH Shodan is an outright creepy antagonist.
LOW The lack of guidance isn’t inviting to new players.
WTF There’s a gorilla-tiger hybrid!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun Review
HIGH Turning thousands of enemies into various forms of gooey spray.
LOW No map. Too many “Purge” sections
WTF Why don’t they ever send my Space Marines some friggin’ reinforcements?