Visage SadSquare Studios If you’re any sort of horror fan worth your salt, you’ve most likely seen the Kojima Production’s PT (playable teaser) horror extravaganza. PT functioned as a short demo for the now-cancelled Silent Hills game that horror junkies around the world had been desperately anticipating (including me). After that game was cancelled, I,…
The Blackout Club Question Many gamers still consider Left 4 Dead 2 to be the absolute pinnacle of team-based, multiplayer, survival horror games. Not surprisingly, Valve’s 2009 hit is still being played today, in no small part due to the modding community that has fully embraced all of its bloody goodness. But while the Left…
Ground Branch Blackfoot Studios It’s hard to believe that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six debuted twenty years ago (1998). It set the bar pretty darn high as far as tactical shooters were concerned. Just as with many genres, tactical shooters have become rather dumbed down as they became more and more commercialized in order to attract…
Green Hell Creepy Jar The survival game genre is one of my favorites, right up there with role-playing games and military shooters. While survival horror is another spin-off of the genre, much of the time you don’t have to be facing monsters or evil spirits to experience scares. I’ve been in dedicated Rust games before…
Dying Light: Bad Blood Techland It’s hard to believe that Techland’s zombie masterpiece has been out for over three years already. It’s highly intuitive parkouring and constant sense of tension are elements that helped to catapult Dying Light’s popularity to epic proportions. It doesn’t hurt that the game’s developers have unleashed free update after free…
SCUM Gamepires, Croteam/Devolver Digital During our first game of SCUM, my buddy and I decided we’d try checking out one of the larger points of interest on the game’s gigantic map. We were easing up on what we thought was a city, but in fact turned out to be some sort of military base. We…
Ground Branch Blackfoot Studios Over the last couple of decades or so, tactical shooters have generally gone from being tactical to what I call “tac lite.” It’s hard to believe that the original Rainbow Six game came out twenty years ago, spawned from the popularity of Tom Clancy’s long-running series of the same name. By…
