Tag: First-Person Games

Mundaun Review

Not Everything Is Black And White


HIGH Finally defeating an enemy with one rifle shot.

LOW Getting randomly killed by enemies in mysterious ways.

WTF Wait… are those textures really hand-drawn? Wow!


Q.U.B.E. 2 Review

Standing In Valve’s Shadow

HIGH Creative puzzles and striking visual design.

LOW Why does the framerate stutter in an empty room containing nothing but moving blocks?

WTF How come space scientists keep getting abandoned on planets full of puzzles?


Shadow Warrior 2 (XBO) Review

Many Highs. One Big Lo.

HIGH Hilarious, breakneck gameplay that continually offers new variety.

LOW Player models pale in comparison to the effects and environments.

WTF Lo Wang begins to get a little grating by the ten-hour mark.


Battlezone Review

Space Paranoids!

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HIGH Watching a salvo of missiles arc across the sky and drop three enemy planes simultaneously.

LOW Dying on the final boss due to a lack of ammo drops.

WTF Are you absolutely sure this isn’t taking place inside a computer? Tanks drop data when they explode.


Syndrome Review

In Space, No One Can See You Giving The Middle Finger to Syndrome

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HIGH Finally cutting loose and blasting a zombie to death with all my ammo.

LOW Any one of the five game-breaking bugs I encountered.

WTF Stranger: “Let’s fly this plague ship to a human planet!” My character: “Sounds like a great plan!”