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Splatterhouse 2010 Is Great Grindhouse with Heart
Splatterhouse’s 2010 revival is crass, lacking in almost any subtlety and gorier than Mortal Kombat. You play as Rick, possessed by the Terror ...
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It’s Adapt or Die in Days Gone Thanks to Dynamic Dangers
Most modern Sony games don’t want you to ever fail, Knack notwithstanding. They often actively work in your favor on every level, behind ...
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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Had a Brilliant & Underappreciated Difficulty Curve
The Assassin’s Creed series has taken a turn these last few years. Where once players had the freedom to approach the open world ...
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Declassifying CounterSpy, Sony’s Best Forgotten Stealth Game
CounterSpy was pure lightning-in-a-bottle luck. Its developers at Dynamighty boasted talents from LucasArts and Pixar. The title was picked up by Sony as ...
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Until Dawn: Rush of Blood Is Brilliant On-Rails Horror
Fear is in the mind. We can shock, disgust, and repulse with ease, but truly instilling foreboding terror or panic? That’s the real ...
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Knack 2 Tries and Fails to Blend Uncharted and God of War
Focus is one of the most understated yet key elements in games, and Knack has it in spades. Every element is zeroed in ...
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Knack Is Every PS1 Game as You Remember Them
When nearly a hundred people voted for me to look at a random PlayStation 4-exclusive kids game, I was a bit surprised. I ...
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Spacelords Breaks the Rules of ‘Games as a Service’
Spacelords (or the game formerly known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is easily the most uncharacteristic entry in developer Mercury Steam’s output. ...
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How Unreal Championship 2 Solved the Single-Player Hero Shooter Problem
Be it Battleborn, Agents of Mayhem, or even Overwatch’s dalliances with PvE content, the industry’s best studios have struggled with crafting a single-player ...
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Dead Space 2’s ‘Severed’ DLC Is the ‘Sequel’ You Probably Never Played
The following contains spoilers for Dead Space 2: Severed and the Dead Space franchise. Shared universes are a major buzz term these days. ...
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Batman: Arkham Origins Initiation Gives Us Something We Haven’t Seen–a Vulnerable Bruce
Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham series is famous for many things, with one of its greatest features being its challenge mode. Whenever players want to ...
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Rise of the Tomb Raider Handicapped Itself with Familiar Gunfights and Explosions
Rise of the Tomb Raider is constantly at odds with itself. It draws on the survival genre and themes of religious exploration yet ...
