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Dec 13, 2021 · The ability to not fight has, counterintuitively, made a game about endless fighting immeasurably better. Far Cry 6 isn't a revolution, but it's the best the series has been in quite some time ...
- Forza Horizon 5
- Deathloop
- Halo Infinite
- Hitman 3
- Inscryption
- It Takes 2
- Metroid Dread
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
- Resident Evil Village
- Returnal
Some people play Forza Horizon 5 for its gorgeous scenery or accurate vehicles. Some play it for its online community and competitive races. Others are into making detailed custom designs or completing challenges. Still, others like to drive cars off cliffs. The brilliance of Forza Horizon 5 is the way in which it welcomes and embraces every one of...
Deathloop is one of the most fascinating video games of not just 2021, but the last few years. It’s a complex and intricate design, fitting together elements of roguelikes, metroidvanias, shooters, and detective games in a completely unique fashion. On paper, it sounds daunting and almost absurd, but developer Arkane Studios makes the entire proces...
There were plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about Halo Infinite heading into it: the departure of not one but two directors on the project before Halo co-creator Joseph Staten parachuted in to help steer Infinite to the finish line, the painful delay to the Xbox Series X's second holiday instead of its first one, and... Craig. But developer 343 ...
There's a scene in John Wick 2 where a dedicated gun sommelier outfits John Wick with weapons catered to his exact tastes. IO Interactive is sort of like this sommelier, presenting would-be assassins with a delectable buffet of deadly choices in Hitman 3. Whether that's the urge to pull off a perfectly professional hit with only the finest weapons,...
Some game developers want to make you feel powerful. Others want you to feel smart. Daniel Mullins seems to aim for a different, more specific feeling — a sort of slack-jawed wonder. Like the one-man developer’s previous games, Inscryption hides what it really is for quite a while, slowly revealing its secrets until you can’t help but stop and scra...
If there’s one thing that It Takes Two makes abundantly clear over the course of its brilliant co-op-only adventure, it’s that no one does a two-player co-op quite like Hazelight Studios. It Takes Two’s creative juices never stop flowing. You move seamlessly from fresh idea to fresh idea: from a co-op-puzzle-based third-person shooter to a 3D isome...
In Metroid Dread, Nintendo has created a game that defies the Next-Gen: It draws you in with its style and speed, but lacks 4K resolution — and from there it gets even more old-school. It has mostly 2D gameplay, incredibly difficult bosses, and when you are stuck, you'll just have to pause and spend lots of time deciphering the map (or seek out a s...
It had been 12 years since Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time came out — the last full-length, completely original mainline Ratchet & Clank game — when Rift Apart hit the PS5 this year. Expectations were high, but Insomniac absolutely rose to the occasion to give us its most gorgeous, well-told Ratchet game yet. A true showcase for the PS5's hardware...
Like it or not (and many survival horror traditionalists do not), Resident Evil is one of the best action game series going today. Resident Evil Village alternates between arcade-like shooting gallery scenes, giant boss fights with elaborate patterns to identify, and twitchy escape sequences from invincible enemies, all building to a surprisingly e...
Despite its immense track record of making superb arcade games going back more than two decades, Housemarque has consistently been overlooked in conversations about the games industry's foremost action developers. Returnal is its coming-out party. It's a big-budget action game with an indie soul, incorporating the best of the rogue-lite genre with ...
Dec 14, 2020 · 5. Kentucky Route Zero. Kentucky Route Zero ’s final chapter came out in January 2020, but Cardboard Computer’s haunting point-and-click adventure is not exactly a 2020 video game. Kentucky ...
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Oct 5, 2021 · Despite this year’s many game delays — God of War Ragnarok, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Gotham Knights, and many others were pushed into next year — 2021 was a great year for ...
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- Inscryption+ Inscryption is a game about games, centered around a narrative with as many layers as a Russian nesting doll. It begins as a standard roguelike deck-building game, and this first act is meaty enough that I was hooked by the time developer Daniel Mullins pulled the rug out from beneath my feet.
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale+ For a game about a cute little dog with a paintbrush, Chicory: A Colorful Tale hits hard. The anthropomorphic canine you inhabit begins the game as the janitor for a famous artist, a bunny named Chicory.
- Halo Infinite+ The Halo franchise has been a powerhouse of the gaming industry for two decades now. Its entries have won countless awards and accolades, and have been named Game of the Year and even Game of the Decade.
- Metroid Dread+ The Metroid series has housed some of the most influential video games in history. But it hasn’t seen the same release cadence as Nintendo’s other major franchises, like Mario and the Legend of Zelda.
Dec 31, 2021 · Release date: 21st September 2021. Formats: PS4, PS5, PC. Developer/publisher: Ember Lab. Perhaps the most impressive thing about Kena: Bridge of Spirits is that it’s the first game made by ...
Apr 19, 2021 · The sudden success and resurgence of Splitgate is a good reminder that in 2021, you can never really count a game out. Long live Splitgate, the closest thing you can get to old school Halo ...
