Agents of Mayhem seems desperate to prove it’s a standalone franchise, unfettered by the Saints Row series it was (very loosely) spun off from. Where the Saints offered irreverent, stylish lunacy that celebrated chaos with surprising doses of [...]
Slime Rancher pulls off a PR coup that fast food corporations would kill for: it’s battery farming, but adorable with it. Monomi Park’s cutesy farm sim has no truck with free-range and GM-free—it’s about cramming as many colourful blobs as you can [...]
While still keeping one purple, stylishly-shod foot firmly planted in the Saints Row universe, Volition’s Agents of Mayhem is a bold attempt to create something a bit different. Whether or not you think it succeeds depends on how deeply you’re willing to [...]
Let’s start with the basics. Rez is an on-rails shooter, originally released in 2002 for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. You travel along a set path across five wireframe levels, and shoot everything that you see. Sometimes your enemies drop [...]
LawBreakers succeeds as an FPS because it embraces and gives a middle finger to the last five years of FPS design. From a distance, Boss Key’s first game looks like another five-on-five ‘hero shooter’ where each of the characters bring [...]
LawBreakers is a smart arena-shooter that hearkens back to the early age of digital slaying, where mobility is essential, battles are decided in split seconds, and skill determines who thrives and who dies. Despite putting critical pieces together to [...]
The original Nidhogg found a creative, fun take on the fighting genre. Its acrobatic combat and aesthetic simplicity were part of its charm, which makes adding complexity without souring the experience a difficult task. Nidhogg 2 handles it well, adding [...]
Following Sonic the Hedgehog’s meteoric rise to prominence in the early ’90s, Sega tarnished the franchise’s once sterling reputation with a long string of mostly disappointing entries. With Sonic Mania, Sega wants to wipe away the last [...]
