Far Cry 5 Ubisoft When I first booted up Ubisoft’s new open-world, first-person shooter, Far Cry 5, I knew that it was something special. The introduction, which has you as a nameless law enforcement rookie riding along in a helicopter,… Read More »Far Cry 5 Review – A Fanatical Attention to Detail
Rust Facepunch Studios Rust recently exited Early Access. It’s one of those indie survival titles that has become synonymous with the term “toxic community.” Basically, if you mention that term and “game” people will know that you’re most likely… Read More »Rust Review – If You Have Lots of Time, Rust Has a Place For it
Surviving Mars Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive First off, I’ve never been a huge city-builder/colony management type of gamer. I’ve always been more of a turn-based or real-time strategy guy. I like having control over a kingdom/space empire (fantasy or science fiction… Read More »Surviving Mars Review – A Great Colony-Building Title for Space Geeks
Stellaris: Apocalypse DLC Paradox Interactive I’ve been playing 4X space strategy games for as long as I remember. Master of Orion 2 stands out to most people as the absolute pinnacle of the genre, even today. Fortunately (or unfortunately,… Read More »Stellaris: Apocalypse DLC Review – Is That a Moon…Or…?
Hunt: Showdown Crytek Quite a while back, a gamer friend of mine hipped me to a survival horror title that really seemed intriguing. Hunt: Showdown as it is known, was very early in development at the time, and although I… Read More »Hunt: Showdown First Impressions – A Horrifically Promising Diamond Emerging From the Rough
Squad Offworld Industries The Battlefield 2 mod known as Project Reality totally dominated my life for quite some time. What separated itself from its more arcade-y sibling was that like its title, PR featured a much more comprehensive set of… Read More »Squad (Alpha Update 10) Review – The Great Military Shooter is Now Vaulting Over its Competition
Distrust Cheerdealers I’ve always longed for a game that basically copied the theme of John Carpenter’s 1982 science fiction horror classic, The Thing (the one starring Kurt Russell). Like my other favorite science fiction horror film, Alien, it placed a… Read More »Distrust Co-op Review – The Little Horror Gem is Finally Finding its Way
Total War: Warhammer 2: Rise of the Tomb Kings Creative Assembly/Sega As an ardent Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, I used to scoff at the mere mention of anything Warhammer. Whether it be Games Workshop’s pencil and paper role-playing systems… Read More »Total War: Warhammer 2: Rise of the Tomb Kings Review – Kings From Beneath the Sands of Time
Conan Exiles (Early Access) Funcom When Conan Exiles debuted in January of 2017, I immediately snapped it up. Anything to do with Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian mythos is a must-have as far as I’m concerned. Then I actually played… Read More »Conan Exiles (Early Access) Review – A Year’s Worth of Improvements Shows
Rust Facepunch Studios I, like many gamers out there, have a love/hate relationship with the survival game known as Rust. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure we’ve all heard of the incredibly toxic and unwelcoming community… Read More »Rust (Early Access) Review – A Bump in the Road
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds PUBG Corporation My three friends and I were flying over the dusty ridges of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’s new South American map, Miramar. We’d recently parachuted in, and after grabbing our initial weapons and survival equipment from an old industrial… Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 Launch Review – The Ultimate Battle Royale Experience Breaks Loose
For Honor Ubisoft Ubisoft has a reputation for releasing games that almost feel incomplete, or at least seem to be still in their Beta states. I’m not going to talk about how politically correct they appear to be, such… Read More »For Honor Updated Review – A Modern Fighting Classic Stalled at an Impasse