When EA and DICE revealed that their next entry in the Battlefield franchise would be set during World War I, I had mixed feelings. As a lover of history, the time period was instantly acceptable to me. WWI is a largely unexplored in the video game space, and I think most of that is due to the prevalence of World War II content being more of an inspiration thanks to the multitude of movies and television shows that portrayed it. I think its accurate to say that WWII is a...
Yeah, sure, Far Cry 3’s crazy drugbender island adventure was great, but where were the lasers? Blood Dragon answers this burning question. Blood Dragon is a fantastic homage to the campy sci-fi of the 80s and 90s, when the future was a neon apocalypse filled with robots and lasers. It’s overflowing with jokes and references spanning videogames, movies, and television. I’d love to say more, but half the fun of the jokes is in the surprise of their discovery, and...
Sanctum, third place for my 2011 Game of the Year picks here at Levelsave.com (I’ve been here coming up on two years already?) by Coffee Stain Studios was a beautifully executed cross-genre experience. There has been some news of Sanctum 2 being released to both PC and console platforms, and I’ve gotten my hands on a preview build of the game. This is a game wherein you create a maze and place turrets to kill creeps, and then enter first person mode in order to...
I think we can all get in agreement that we love zombies, right? Zombies are rad, but that doesn’t mean everything with zombies in it is great. There’s been bad games and some pretty terrible movies. Story lines are regurgitated and gameplay mechanics reused over and over. Contagion is a FPS set in a zombie apocalypse, but don’t blow it off yet. Contagion is being developed by Monochrome Games who’s founder created Half-Life 2’s Zombie Panic:...
When you ask me what my favorite genre of game is there is never any hesitation before I blurt out 3 short letters, RPG. We’ve all played them and many of you out there love them just as much if not more than I do, but recently the line as to what truly constitutes an RPG has become quite muddled. Some say that an RPG has to have an inventory system and a true leveling system or skill tree, other people say an RPG is anything where you can upgrade your character. So...
I have been looking forward to Borderlands 2 since Gearbox Software announced it was in development. To say that I love Borderlands would be a colossal understatement. I first bought the game for PC off of Steam and then later purchased it for my PS3. I think Borderlands was brilliant at melding a hardcore RPG with an open world first person shooter. It felt as good as any first person shooter of the tim, the upgrade tree was deep and the world of Pandora was a blast...
Hard Reset is a self-described old school sci-fi FPS. Set in the last human city of Bezoar, the player takes the role of a corporate soldier who must fight to keep the machines from assimilating the network which holds billions of digitized human minds. I had been expecting Hard Reset to be a twitch shooter, but was surprised to find that this is largely not the case. Most weapons in Hard Reset have very limited rates of fire, limited ranges, and cause splash damage...
This may be the game I am most excited for, it doesn’t come out till next year, but damn. I’m excited. After getting my hands on it at PAX East, my skepticism was thoroughly removed and I await the final product with anticipation. Now after seeing this Dev Diary video, still excited. Aliens: Colonial Marines releases on PC, PS3 and the Xbox 360 Feb 12th, 2013
Sony Online Entertainment has been busy working with gamers on the BETA of the newest Free to Play First-Person Shooter, Bullet Run. The wait for release is over, and you can now download and play Bullet Run for free. This game seems to propagate an interesting take on the near-future gameshow style which has been done so many times before. Smash T.V., Fatal Rewind, and Monday Night Combat have all tried the same kind of setting and have invariably met with great success...
Any fan of arena-style hordes-of-baddies FPS action will probably at least have heard of Hard Reset. As a cyberpunk drudge through increasingly awful situations, this game is pretty frenetic fun. Our friends over at Flying Wild Hog have just informed us that Free DLC is on it’s way to existing owners of Hard Reset. Entitled Hard Reset: Exile, this download will follow protagonist Major Fletcher into the Barrens where he will surely face waves of varied things out for...
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