Tag Archives: FPS

Scathe mini-review

Scathe strives to provide the blistering action of yesteryear’s first-person shooters like Doom, Quake, and Hexen, while offering updated visuals. You assume the role of the game’s eponymous warrior, roused by a seemingly benevolent deity ...

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Fashion Police Squad review

Instead of guns and grenades, Fashion Police Squad will have you wield the gears of fabulousness as you give Trendopolis an extreme makeover. Sergeant Des is fixated on cleaning up the streets. But unlike most ...

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Shadow Warrior 3 review

Sure, Lo Wang is a shadow of his former self, and there’s a bit too much repetition in the game’s final hours, but Shadow Warrior 3‘s blend of thrill-ride navigation and intense gun-and-cleave gameplay is ...

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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem review

Sam’s latest outing sticks to what the series does best: tossing players in fields with dozens of shrieking kamikazes and galloping Kleer. Beyond your usual arsenal, Siberian Mayhem offers a few new ways to put ...

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Bright Memory: Infinite review

Building on its technically skilled predecessor, Bright Memory: Infinite retools its action, resulting in a brief, but thoroughly thrilling, single-player campaign. First, a confession: I used to routinely play Call of Duty for the single-player ...

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Writhe review

The first-person shooting action comes fast and relentless with Writhe. As long as you’re OK with arcade-style action rather than an extended campaign, this wild wyrm hunt might deserve consideration. Early gaming was skillful at ...

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Crysis Remastered (PC) review

The question used to be, “Can I Run Crysis”. With this remaster, the new question becomes, “Should I play thirty dollars for substandard rehash?” “Can I Run Crysis” was a rhetorical question at several times. ...

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Hellbound review

Hellbound looks good and plays decently, but suffers from a dearth of weaponry and enemy types, two essentials of the first-person shooter genre. If you’re looking for a three-hour fix of retro fragging goodness, this ...

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Disintegration review

Plotlines are often dispensable in real-time strategy and first-person shooter games. Disintegration provides an absorbing motivation for its blend of genres. But the game’s action isn’t as tactical or engaging as it should be. For ...

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Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD review

Stranger’s Initial Struggle All too often, creativity isn’t rewarded with commercial success. That was the case for the 2005 release of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, an imaginative effort that blended third and first-person action in a ...

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