Adventure Has A Name… And A Lot Of Guns
HIGH Using the energy lasso power to disintegrate a crowd of zombies in seconds.
LOW The fleeing relic carriers are far too easy to miss.
WTF The whole final boss fight.
Tag: Rebellion
Rogue Trooper Redux Review
The World’s Not Big Enough For Him
HIGH The brutal stealth executions.
LOW Trying to fight on a staircase when all I can see is Rogue’s back.
WTF Where’s my Strontium Dog game, Rebellion?
Sniper Elite 4 Review
One Shot, So Many Kills
HIGH Pulling off a 400-meter headshot in high winds.
LOW No longer being able to choose what kind of scope I want to use.
WTF The often-strange bios that appear over enemies when watching them with binoculars.
Battlezone Review
Space Paranoids!
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.
Nazi Zombie Army Trilogy Review
Battle of the Zomme
HIGH The Zombie Hitler battle.
LOW The fact that some levels basically can't be played solo.
WTF It's the zombpocalypse. Why are zombies hiding inside suits of armor?
Sniper Elite 3: Ultimate Edition Review
Ultimate Redemption
HIGH Sneaking up on a tank and putting a bullet in its gas hatch.
LOW Dying stupidly and finding out that my last checkpoint was 90 minutes ago…. because there aren't checkpoints.
WTF Perfect headsh—He's got a metal mask? Who wears a metal mask?!?
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army Review
Hunting the Dead
HIGH Watching a single bullet plow through five zombies.
LOW Anything with skeletons. Seriously, the skeletons are horrible.
WTF I'm disappointed by the utter lack of zombie Hitler, Rebellion.
The lampshade
When I wrote a post about the Camp aesthetic in games a few years back, I suggested that one of the greatest areas of camp potential in games lay in violence. A commenter suggested I take a look at Rogue Warrior, a universally-panned game inexplicably starring Mickey Rourke as real-life SEAL team commander Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko. The game did not disappoint: Rogue Warrior is a great example, perhaps the best example, of a game that in its violent excess becomes unintentionally comic.
Sniper Elite V2 Review
Theater of War Crimes
HIGH The quarter-mile shot.
LOW Are those tank guns manned by psychics?
WTF And then the bullet plowed through his head, popping his eyeball before blasting off the back of his skull! (Repeat 100 times.)
GameCritics.com Podcast Episode 77: What We’re Playing, Is Sniper Elite V2 too Violent?
In this episode we have a good old fashioned "What have you been playing?" Discussion. We then have a debate sparked by an email over Sniper Elite V2 and round it all out with some thumbs! With Chi Kong Lui, Brad Gallaway, Mike Bracken, Richard Naik and Dylan "I have no witty nicknames" Collins.
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