At the beginning of What Remains of Edith Finch, you walk down a path and approach a house that looks like discarded concept art from a Tim Burton movie. You’d be forgiven for expecting What Remains of Edith Finch to be a creepy horror game with a scattering of jump scares. Instead, it’s a sad…
Prey starts off as a scary survival horror experience where you can’t so much as walk past a coffee cup or a trash can without tensing up and preparing to swing your wrench at an inanimate object. You scrounge for resources and treasure every ammo clip not knowing when you’ll get another. That’s how it…
In my forty hours with NieR: Automata, I fought a giant construction site, watched machines conduct their own twisted version of Romeo and Juliet, and unraveled one of the most philosophically interesting stories in video games. I did this all while playing the game as a third-person hack and slash action RPG, a top down…
The Sexy Brutale is a murder mystery game where the mystery is not figuring out who did the crime, but figuring out how to stop it. It's the first game from Cavalier Game Studios, an independent studio created by former Lionhead Studios developers, and made in conjunction with Tequila Works. https://youtu.be/4YZeHaYobKk In The Sexy Brutale,…
Horizon Zero Dawn is the first game in recent memory where I’ve been thrown into a post-apocalyptic future and actually believed in the world around me. Horizon places you 1,000 years into the future, when humanity has been reduced to tribal societies, and machines roam the land. The concept sounds far-fetched and yet every minute I…
My first five hours with Mass Effect: Andromeda weren’t just disappointing, they were flat-out bad. I rarely went ten minutes without encountering a glitch such as floating enemies or huge frame rate drops. The characters were dull and their dialogue cringe-inducing. My mission log filled up with pointless fetch quests, and the user interface seemed…
DICE has done something new with its Battlefield franchise and it isn’t about to let you forget it. On booting up Battlefield 1 for the first time, you’re thrown straight into a horrifying single-player prologue that sees you struggling—and eventually failing—to survive against an onslaught of enemy soldiers. It’s a not-so-subtle attempt to demonstrate the…
Crystal Dynamics gave the Tomb Raider series a much-needed shot in the arm with 2013’s Tomb Raider. Truth be told, it didn’t feel much like the Tomb Raider games I remember from the late nineties, but given the countless failed attempts to move the franchise into the 21st Century, that is perhaps for the best.…
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At its best, Fallout 4 is a captivating game in which the hours fly by as you wander the wasteland moving from adventure to adventure, collecting scrap to upgrade your weapons, and trying to survive in a brutal post-apocalyptic Boston. It’s a huge leap up from Fallout 3 in terms of graphics, shooting, and overall…
