Game Reviews7.7/10
Gears of War: Judgment Review: A Smaller, Stranger Gears
Gears of War: Judgment review — People Can Fly's 2013 Xbox 360 prequel puts Baird and Cole on trial, with star scoring and a smaller, stranger campaign.
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Tag: third-person shooter
Game Reviews7.7/10
Spec Ops: The Line Review: The Campaign Is the Point
Spec Ops: The Line sends Delta Force into a sand-buried Dubai. A 2012 shooter that turns a rescue mission into a moral reckoning.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash: A Shooter Under the Joke
Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash review: Tamsoft's 2017 water-gun shooter on PS4 and PC, with two-mode weapons, cards, and a 30-plus roster. Score: 7.6/10.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Resident Evil 4 Turned Survival Horror Into a Shooter, and the Genre Never Went Back
How Resident Evil 4's over-the-shoulder camera, laser sight, and Los Ganados enemies rewrote survival horror and set the template for third-person shooters.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Remedy swapped noir pastiche for genuine tragedy in Max Payne 2
A review of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Remedy's 2003 noir shooter sequel — bullet-time upgrades, Mona Sax, and a score of 8.4/10.
Game Reviews8.7/10
Risk of Rain 2 Review: 8.7/10 — A Roguelike That Still Holds Up
Risk of Rain 2 review: Hopoo Games' 2020 roguelike shooter still holds up, with time-based difficulty, 75+ stacking items, and four-player co-op.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Splatoon 3’s New Splatlands Map Outshines Its Multiplayer Lobby
Splatoon 3 review: 11.96 million copies sold, a strong Splatlands setting and Return of the Mammalians campaign, held back by matchmaking problems.
Game Reviews8.1/10
PlatinumGames Built a Shooter Where Sliding Beat Shooting
Vanquish review: PlatinumGames' 2010 shooter still delivers bullet-hell sliding combat and AR mode, even if the story never keeps up.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Review: A Licensed Shooter That Earns Its Apocalypse
A review of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, High Moon's 2012 shooter about a dying planet, Metroplex, Grimlock, and a war with no way home.
Game Reviews6/10
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Review: A Bold Timeline, a Middling Shooter
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet review — the fifth SAO game trades swords for Gun Gale Online guns, an alternate timeline, and a 6/10 score.
Game Reviews7.1/10
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville keeps interrupting its own shooting
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville review: 23 classes, open zones and split-screen, plus the story of PopCap Vancouver's final game. Score: 7.1/10.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Blackwood Review: A Double Life on PC, and the 7.8 That Measures It
Blackwood launches on PC with a double life: DVD store owner by day, assassin by night. Read our review of combat, roles, and the 7.8 score.