Chex Quest HD Review
When it comes to remasters, the "less is more" approach is often the best one. Go too far away from the original and you have a game that players only recognize out of a sense of obligation. Changes…
May 18, 2020 | 10:00 EDT
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Doom 64 Rewind Review
The year was 1997. The FPS was still in its infancy, recently leaping into a 3D future with the release of Quake. It was the next logical step after iD's Doom duo, a technological leap that inspired…
April 3, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Doom Eternal Review
Doom Eternal’s first moments make one thing very clear: Your next few hours will be nothing but high-octane, flesh-ripping, heart-pounding action. It sucks you in, putting you in a completely trance-…
March 22, 2020 | 02:40 EDT
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts Review
There’s almost nothing more enjoyable than the freedom to tackle a mission in several different ways. Whether it’s a chaos run in Dishonored or a stealthy playthrough in Payday 2. Somedays I barge in…
February 22, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story Review
Themes of finding a new home and accepting loss are common in post-apocalypse media. For the most part, Metro Exodus’ main storyline fulfills both of these pretty well. But, what if you were already…
February 21, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Halo: Reach PC Review
It's hard to believe that the entire Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to PC. 343 Industries is releasing an entry to this massive assembly of games in chronological order per the lore,…
December 14, 2019 | 11:00 EST
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Review
It's been a long time since we last saw a proper MechWarrior game. We've seen almost nothing from the series since 2002's MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, save the multiplayer-only MechWarrior Online. MWO…
December 10, 2019 | 10:30 EST
Demon Pit Review
With renewed determination, I click “Begin” and spawn into Demon Pit’s hellish arena yet again. Raw power surges in me as the first few demons – weak flying skulls – wind their way towards me. I grip…
November 7, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Rage 2 Review - Goons Just Want to Have Fun
The initial pitch for Rage 2 seems like a can't miss proposition. Take the guns from 2016's Doom and merge them with the open world and driving of Mad Max. The end result should be something worth…
November 1, 2019 | 09:41 EDT
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Review
A little over a decade ago, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ushered in a new era of first-person shooters. Features like killstreaks, gun customization, and perks became commonplace virtually…
October 29, 2019 | 10:30 EDT
Hunt: Showdown Review
I’ve long thought the battle royale genre would benefit from a blend of PVE and PVP. There’s a certain charm to fighting monsters, only to get blindsided by a random player. That style brings a lot…
September 2, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Metro Exodus: The Two Colonels Review
In Metro Exodus’ main campaign, you find out that there are other survivors persevering through the nuclear apocalypse. Unsurprisingly, most of these survivors try to kill you, but there are some who…
September 2, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Metro Exodus Review - Full Steam Ahead
Metro Exodus is a game I've been looking forward to for a long time. I thoroughly enjoyed playing the previous two post-apocalyptic first-person shooters in the series. To my delight, Exodus promises…
February 13, 2019 | 11:00 EST
DUSK Review - The Dawn Of An Old Era
First-person shooters are, at the best of times, divisive. There are many for whom first-person shooters begin and end with the relatively realistic military stylings of Call of Duty and Battlefield…
December 15, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Battlefield V Review: Giving New Life to an Old War
Two decades after the war to end all wars came to a close, another global conflict flared up, threatening to envelop the world in chaos once again. For more than half a decade, millions of people…
November 13, 2018 | 02:30 EST
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Review - Change For The Better
With the fourth entry in the Black Ops series, Treyarch is shaking things up in some major ways. This is the first time we’ll see Call of Duty without a campaign, replaced instead with a topical…
October 17, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
Destiny 2: Forsaken Review - The Way Things Were Meant To Be
With the wave of disappointment that followed the launch of Destiny 2 and its two DLCs, there's little doubt that Bungie is desperately seeking a redemption story. It isn’t a good sign when the…
September 10, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Dark Legion Review
When I go looking for VR games to play, I pay attention to the presentation. I know it's kind of shallow, but if there's one thing I've noticed it's that there's a lot of people putting out their…
July 12, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Call of Duty: WWII Review - World Bore Two
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare doubled down on the sci-fi timeline last year and I considered it a big surprise and one of my favorite entries in the series. Yet it seems that sci-fi isn't as popular…
November 20, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Destiny 2 Review - For Loot And Puppies!
People thought Bungie was crazy when they claimed that their first post-Halo franchise would last for a decade. After all, no one had played Destiny at that point, so who knew if it would even…
September 26, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
LawBreakers Review - Cliffhanger
When the first person shooter was born, your Nazi/Demon/Giant Smiley-fighting character was restricted to walking down set corridors and firing right in front of them. Later shooters would open up to…
August 10, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
SUPERHOT VR Review - Woah
SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, many people may remember last year's Kickstarter success story (and our indie game of the year) SUPERHOT. What they may not remember…
August 2, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Arizona Sunshine Review - Not Fun in the Sun
When it originally released back in 2016, Arizona Sunshine was one of the few full FPSes available in VR. The game launched to pretty good reviews, even getting a few game of the year awards from VR-…
July 21, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Divide Review - Divided it Fell
I have a soft spot for independent games that attempt to tackle bigger ideas. Divide wants to be an isometric adventure game with some puzzle and shooting elements. While I can appreciate this, what'…
February 15, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Review - Infinitely Better
I've always considered Call of Duty to be a consistently good series. Three years ago, Infinity Ward released Call of Duty: Ghosts, which was the only entry in the series that I had to step back from…
November 11, 2016 | 11:00 EST
Titanfall 2 Review - What Is Love
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 came out on November 10, 2009. The team that defined the modern FPS as we know it disbanded the following year due to a falling out between studio heads and the game's…
November 2, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Shadow Warrior 2 Review - Wanton Destruction
2016 has been a big year for games, and one of the most welcome trends in my book is the transition of FPS games back to their speed infused arena roots. Whether it's Overwatch's Team Fortress 2…
October 13, 2016 | 05:18 EDT
Destiny: Rise of Iron Review - Fresh As Rusted Iron
As Destiny kicks off its third anniversary with the release of the Rise of Iron DLC, there can be no doubt that the game has had one of the most tumultuous lifespans of any AAA release in recent…
September 24, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Review - What A Shame
A few weeks ago, I wrote a glowing preview for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided after playing for about seven hours. Now I wish I had waited a bit longer before writing my impressions, as it was around the…
September 10, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Overwatch Review- Heroes of the Sawmill
As I played Overwatch for hours and hours over the course of this month, I couldn't help but continue to wonder what we lost in the transition that turned Blizzard's next MMO into a team-based FPS. …
May 24, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
DOOM Review - Dynamite!
The hour leading up to the launch of DOOM may have been one of the most emotionally conflicting moments I've had in all my time playing video games. Twelve years after the ho-hum Doom 3, we were…
May 17, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
SUPERHOT Review - Super
SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years. SUPERHOT knows this. SUPERHOT even makes a joke out of those exact words at one point during the game, but it's the truth. There wasn't a…
February 25, 2016 | 10:00 EST
Rainbow Six Siege Review - Demolition Simulator 2015
I have never been one to dig into more tactical shooters. I was raised on Unreal Tournament instead of SWAT 4, learning how to calculate jump pad physics and aim rockets at fast moving targets.…
December 14, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Star Wars Battlefront Review
Fans of the Star Wars: Battlefront series have had a hard go of it. The original two games were crafted by the late, great Pandemic Studios for the original Xbox and PlayStation 2. These titles were…
November 30, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Fallout 4 Review – Catch That Uranium Fever
It was near the end of my journey through The Commonwealth, and I was deep underground. My companion and I were fully decked out in power armor stolen from the Brotherhood of Steel, firing gatling…
November 15, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Fallout 4 First Impressions - Diamond City In The Rough
I am currently twelve hours and change into my trek through the Bostonian wasteland, and I am here to confirm on the day of release that Fallout 4 has treated me right during that time. I'm playing…
November 10, 2015 | 04:59 EST
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Review - A Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Last year saw the release of Wolfenstein: The New Order, one of my personal games of the year. It had everything I would want from a Wolfenstein game: intense firefights, loads of nazis, and a…
May 7, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Battlefield Hardline Review - The Sound of Some Police
Battlefield Hardline is kind of an enigma. The reason being is because it seems to want to be two things at once. The single player and the multiplayer are more separated than any Battlefield game…
March 25, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Paranautical Activity Review
If you've paid even the slightest attention to games in the past few years, you're now very aware of what a roguelike is. Even games that have little to anything to do with the traditions of the…
February 23, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Metro Last Light Redux Review
Metro Last Light Redux (developed by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver) is a return to the universe based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro book series. While Metro 2033 Redux mostly followed the plot…
February 22, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Metro 2033 Redux Review
I am an absolute sucker for any sort of post-apocalyptic game. Generally, the apocalypse is either nuclear, zombies or both. Give me a ruined world and a rifle cobbled together from scrap, and I'm…
February 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Evolve Review - Dead at Stage 2
Evolve is a good game with great ideas. Coming from Turtle Rock, the developer of Left 4 Dead, which has been resurrected outside the Valve empire, Evolve is an asymmetric shooter released February…
February 13, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Dying Light Review - Dead Island Plus
Dying Light seems on the surface to be a vast improvement over what could be its predecessor, Dead Island, in many significant ways. The addition of parkour over the vast city landscape helps create…
February 4, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition Review
Duke Nukem 3D is a game of almost legendary status. When it was released in 1996, it was widely regarded as one of the best FPSs ever made. Its reputation was what lead to such eager anticipation of…
January 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Killing Floor Review - Now with More Guts!
Fifteen or so years ago, there was a running joke in the PC Gaming World about the proliferation of World War II First Person Shooters. If you liked firing virtual 70-year-old rifles at virtual Nazis…
January 15, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Wrack Review - Cel Shaded FPS Fun
A while back, I received the privilege of reviewing Wrack, a cel-shaded first-person shooter developed by Final Boss Entertainment. My first impression from playing hours of Wrack, besides the…
January 8, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Deadfall Adventures Review
The traditional way to consume B-movies, whether terrible in every regard or so bad it's awesome, is with a couple of cold beverages, the company of good friends, and the ability to enjoy something…
December 22, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Far Cry 4 Review - Beautiful But Hollow
If there needed to be a summary for Far Cry 4, it will be a mixture of manically detailing the fun of cooperatively fighting enemies with a friend, being dumbstruck by the beauty of the landscape as…
December 19, 2014 | 07:01 EST