Video Game Reviews, Articles
Duke Nukem has been kicking alien ass since the early nineties, but he really made his name in the critically-acclaimed shooter Duke Nukem 3D. 3D Realms had a masterpiece on their hands, as it was running on a more powerful…
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What is it? Bounty For Sharks is a first-person shooter by Beep2Bleep. According to the author, it was created in roughly ten hours. You must fend off waves of killer sharks that are floating across land, and are equipped with…
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A retro-inspired first-person shooter… set in socialist Czechoslovakia? Admit it, that wasn’t what you were expecting from an indie FPS. HROT is the brainchild of the one-man developer Spytihněv, who manages to pull off not only the old school shooter…
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Project Warlock is yet another first-person shooter that pays tribute to the classics of yesteryear. This one feels like a ramped-up version of Wolfenstein 3D with a punchy arsenal akin to DOOM’s, some Hexen-esque spells, and a few other nifty,…
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Thought you could trick us into thinking you’re a Switch title, eh, Guns of Mercy? Suffice to say, you’re not fooling anyone. This side-scroller is another phone app-to-console port, only in the form of an illustrious special edition. No paywalls…
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What is it? Blazing Beaks is a procedurally-generated top-down shooter. As a cute bird or duck, you need to defeat all enemies on each stage to advance. The only way of earning money is to collect items that hinder your…
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It came from space and ate our brains is a mouthful of a title for a mostly adequate top-down shooter. Conceived by Triangle Studios and published by All in! Games in 2015, this has you running ‘n’ gunning through boatloads…
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What is it? Super Mutant Alien Assault is a side-scroller developed by Cybernate and published by Fellow Traveller. Your spaceship is under attack by aliens, and you need to take them out while completing other objectives, like powering up a…
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What is it? Zombotron is a side-scroller by Ant.Karlov Games. A lone space marine finds himself stranded on an alien planet swarmed with the undead. He’ll need to overcome them in order to escape. Platform(s) PC Pros Cons The art…
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It may look like a seemingly-random jumble of words turned into some sort of pseudo-title for a video game, but it’s legit! Originally conceived as an April Fools joke back in 2013, WayForward (famously known as the creators of the…
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Oh, another retro-chique first-person shooter on the market? Not exactly surprising at this point. What sets This Strange Realm Of Mine – developed and published by Doomster Entertainment – apart from the rest of the shooters out there is its attempt…
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What is it? DOOM is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Bethesda in 2016. It is a reboot of the classic series. The legendary DOOM Slayer has awoken in a military installation on Mars, where the…
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From Crytek GmbH, they of Crysis and CryEngine fame, Hunt: Showdown is a high-stakes, always online PvPvE first-person shooter set in the humid swamps of 19th century Louisiana, where grizzled wild west hunters stalk creatures of the night for cash…
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Video is an interesting word. It means “to see” in Latin! Therefore, video games are games that you can see. For all you out there, this has a lot of snark use. First for games where you can’t see anything,…
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What is it? Postal Redux is a top-down shooter by Running With Scissors, and a remake of the first entry in the series. Crazed gunmen are roaming the town of Paradise and they’re out to get you (or are they?)….
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