Xbox One

Back in 2011, Crysis 2 released for the first time. And releasing after the original Crysis and Far Cry games, the linearity of Crysis 2 held it back against its predecessors. Now, that linearity is really exaggerated against the many first-person shooters that have adopted an open-world setting since. Whereas Crysis Remastered is akin to
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It’s that time of year where snuggling up and reading a book from a murderer’s point of view is suddenly more acceptable. That’s right, its Halloween, where spooky goings on are promoted and scary games are in order. Murder Diaries 2 on Xbox combines horror storytelling with a visual novel style game, and it can
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Imagine yourself walking through a tunnel in the underground ruins of the ancient Sumerian Empire. The camera focuses tightly behind your back, adding to that sense of claustrophobia and dread as you clunkily move through the caverns. Suddenly, you hear the distinctive screams of famed High School Musical diva Sharpay Evans from ahead. You know
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Pieces of NHL 22 feel like a callback to NHL 95, which introduced the spin-o-rama. That innovation was a quick piece of showy stick play that made dodging a defender easier, at the expense of realism. Decades later, such skills now turned into X-Factors, giving certain star players special moves. Now universal across NHL, Madden
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If the words ‘boss rush bullet hell’ don’t strike fear into you, you’re a braver person than myself. Just for you then, I present Godstrike on Xbox, a new bullet hell that is launching today, and also on PlayStation 4. In Godlike, you don’t have a health bar. Instead you have a time limit to
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Amid a sea of seemingly endless looter-shooters, Back 4 Blood bucks a lot of trends in favor of something old-fashioned. After spending 25 hours with this four-player cooperative first-person shooter, I came to love its glorious white-knuckle tone, clever card-based progression, and varied, fist-pump-worthy campaign. An awkward difficulty curve and a stale versus mode prevent
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