Rico Review First Person shooters are rare on the Nintendo Switch. There are some true greats like Doom and Wolfenstein II. There is Paladins if your looking for an arena shooter, then there’s the fun of getting a whole crew together to play Payday 2. Sure, Payday 2 is a glitchy mess that was abandoned by its devs but it […]
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There were some reasons to have hope for Aliens: Colonial Marines. Despite the fact that Sega’s name was attached to it, despite the fact that there hadn’t been a genuinely good first person Aliens game in years, despite the troubled development process… ok, so maybe there was only one real reason to be hopeful
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Dear Journal, Today I finished Backlog Quest II by throwing myself into harm’s way to protect The President of the United States of America. I say that Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice is “ultimate backlog material” because it is that game you’ve probably see on the budget/value rack a dozen or so times and just never picked up. It never really […]
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Dear Journal, Today I saved the world from some smelly terrorist. In discussing the previous Medal of Honor I made the comparison more than once that Call of Duty was like any of Michael Bay’s many explosion filled films where as MOH was more along the lines of Saving Private Ryan or The Hurt Locker. Yes, there is action and […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I played a generic FPS that actually had a fairly cool component tacked on. It seems that movie-tie-in games make up a fairly large portion of my backlog. Battleship joins the ranks. Based on the 2012 action flick, which is based on a board game, which is based on actual war, Battleship has you fighting an invading […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I engaged in some literal corporate warfare. Syndicate takes place in the year 2069, when a mega corporation named Eurocorp has developed a chip implant that has allowed people to directly interface with technology and has largely replaced many of the world’s electronics. As a result, Eurocorp, and several other mega corporations (or syndicates) control the world […]
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Dear Journal, Today I played a game, based on a real life private for-hire military group that has had so much bad publicity that it has change it’s name twice since this game was released in 2011 and has paid almost 50 millions in fines for illegal arms trafficking. So, to restate the question posed in the title of this […]
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Dear Journal, Today I kicked some North Korean ass. Homefront is one of those games that is an awesome idea with mixed execution. In a near future where North Korea has had a series of “lucky breaks” and the US has had a series of misfortunes resulting in a new super power and an occupied America. You play as a […]
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Dear Journal, Today I played as a foul mouth Navy SEAL in a buggy mess of a game. Some games should just be left in the backlog, there have been a couple of those during Backlog Quest (such as this one, or this one), and sadly Rogue Warrior joins the party. Based very loosely on former Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko, […]
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Dear Journal, Today I took part in a series of covert operations meant to turn the tide in America’s Civil War. Civil War: Secret Missions is one of many churned out FPS titles to bear a History Channel logo on it. The game places you in the uniforms of soldiers in both The North and The South, in missions where […]
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