Game Reviews5.6/10
Shadow Warrior 3 Review: Blades, Bullets, and a Dragon Too Big to Swallow
A tale of a sword-wielding warrior and a dragon's egg, wherein comedy, fantasy, and bullet-hell clash in one wild game.
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Tag: first-person shooter
Game Reviews6.5/10
Resistance: Burning Skies Review: A Vita Shooter That Gets the Aiming Right and Little Else
Resistance: Burning Skies review — the Vita's only Resistance game, its dual analog sticks, Tom Riley's story, and why it scores 6.5/10.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Gemini: Heroes Reborn Review: A Tie-In That Serves the Season Better Than It Serves Itself
Gemini: Heroes Reborn is a 2016 Heroes Reborn tie-in shooter with a shared story across two games. Our review scores it 6.5 of 10.
Game Reviews6.4/10
Unreal Tournament III: A Good Game With a Great Engine and No Clear Reason to Be the One You Pick
Unreal Tournament III review: Epic's 2007 shooter scores 6.4/10 with a great engine and strong multiplayer, but no clear reason to exist beyond its name.
Game Reviews7.5/10
TimeShift wants you to break the clock.
TimeShift review: Saber's 2007 shooter gives you a suit that slows, stops and rewinds time in a rain-soaked 1939. Great mechanic, thin story. 7.5/10.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Cel-Shaded Conspiracy Thriller XIII Holds Up 23 Years Later
XIII, Ubisoft's 2003 cel-shaded conspiracy shooter, reviewed: its comic-panel headshots, 16 weapons, and why it still works.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Gotham City Impostors: A Smart, Funny, Well-Built Shooter Where Nobody Is Batman
Gotham City Impostors review: Monolith's 2012 shooter where nobody is Batman, with grappling hooks, roller skates and a free-to-play second life. Score: 7.3.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Killzone: Mercenary Review: A Technical Achievement and a Narrative Shrug
Killzone: Mercenary review: Guerrilla Cambridge's Vita shooter nailed portable combat and contract missions, but its 2022 server closure cost it half the game.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Review — A Great Story Wrapped Around a Good Shooter
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger review — a 1910 saloon, an unreliable narrator, and the best storytelling in the series wrapped around a solid shooter.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Get Even’s story is buried under its own combat
Get Even is a first-person shooter that punishes you for shooting, wrapped around a memory-reading device. A look at The Farm 51's 2017 psychological thriller.
Game Reviews8.7/10
BioShock 2 returns to Rapture eight years after Andrew Ryan’s death, and the city has only gotten worse.
BioShock 2 returns to Rapture as Subject Delta, a prototype Big Daddy, with a drill, a rivet gun, and a story that earns its length.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Halo 2’s campaign was rushed to ship before the multiplayer that defined Xbox Live was finished
Halo 2 sold over 8 million copies and defined Xbox Live matchmaking, but its unfinished campaign and cliffhanger ending still divide players.