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This game has been developed for three years (2016-2019) by Infinity Ward and Activision, with additional work by High Moon Studios, Beenox, Raven Software, and Sledgehammer Games. During that time Infinity Ward Poland rewritten the IW engine, which allows for new performance enhancements and better graphics such as more detailed environments and ray-tracing capabilities. A few animations are buggy, however, like…
On top of being yet another generic military shooter like the other Call of Duty games, Black Ops 4 now shoves in a battle royale mode called "Blackout" for the sake of chasing that same trend. The driving controls in blackout mode are terrible as you need to move the left analog stick up to accelerate and the right analog stick left or right to steer. The ending of Blackout mode, however, undoes the ending of the…
The first title in the series to be set primarily during World War II since Call of Duty: World at War in 2008, WWII is set in the European theatre, and is centered around a squad in the 1st Infantry Division, following their battles on the Western Front; the multiplayer expands to different fronts not seen in the campaign. With amazing photo-realistic graphics and decent voice acting (especially Turner), the game…
The 13th installment of the Call of Duty franchise takes place even further into the future than some preceding titles that were already futuristic enough; this caused heavy criticism by critics and gamers alike. The futuristic setting, while good, it's rather unfitting to Call of Duty franchise. What's worse is that this game was released at a horrible time in a horrible year for what it is, Call of Duty fans like…
This game gave a HUGE breath of air to the series after the lackluster Call of Duty: Ghosts . With extensive multiplayer customization, interesting and creative campaign levels, and a firing range in the multiplayer lobby, this is, without a doubt, one of the best futuristic COD games, alongside Black Ops II and III . The campaign, however, is too similar to previous games The graphics are remarkable on the PS4,…
Logan Walker is a member of the Ghosts task force, an elite semi-competent American spec ops unit. In the near future, America has been devastated by a strike with hacked satellite weapons, and is now a minor world power while the powerful coalition of South American nations known as "The Federation" has become a superpower. In an attempt to destroy the Ghosts, the Federation decides to unleash their ultimate…
Who would have guessed that there was a third game in Black Ops ...and that it gives references to older titles of the Black Ops series? Like when Khalil mentioned Raul Menendez, the main antagonist of Black Ops 2 and if you go in the database you can find old letters from Hudson and Alex Mason. With great graphics for 2015, an amazing Jack Wall soundtrack, stellar voice acting, and so much more, Black Ops III sets…
This is a rushed disaster in the franchise, serving as an interquel between Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II . It should be noted that this was also released on the same day as Black Ops II , which obviously meant that they had two of their own games competing against each other. It's very doubtful that this helped sales. Of course the fact that it was released simultaneously with Black Ops II…
I was happy I pre-ordered this one going on in. After the original Black Ops , I was expecting much more with everyone else, so this is the exciting result we get. The graphics look amazing by 2012 standards. The acting is superb. Even the theme song and soundtrack are awesome, including the orchestral mix composed by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. In fact, there's a non-canon post-credits scene unlocked by…
I had heard a lot about this one going in. Great voice acting (especially Gary Oldman and Sam Worthington), amazing graphics for its time that still hold up nicely, and a thrilling story with a great plot twist towards the end make this yet another all-time favorite of mine. The game nicely links up with World At War by connecting the events that occurred after the Russian campaign. The missions in the game covers a…
After the release of Modern Warfare 2 , the co-founders of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella, asked for extremely large bonuses and creative control of the Call of Duty series. Activision agreed, but added a clause to the contract that should they be fired, the rights to Call of Duty would fall back to Activision. After the contract was made former chief legal officer George Rose at Activision asked…
Two years after the sensation that was Modern Warfare , a sequel at last! So, Task Force 141 looking for Makarov, Zakhaev's former right hand man, and the USMC fighting the Russian army whose invading the US. Soap (the protagonist of COD 4 ) returns and is now fully voiced. With its amazing graphics that were nicely detailed at the time, great soundtrack, and so much more, Modern Warfare 2 sets the standard for…
Modern Warfare breaks away from the World War II setting of previous entries in the series and is instead set in modern times. Despite the game actually being good, Activision constantly reskinned the game for future titles in the series, which also resulted in many people (such as me, sort of) getting tired of generic games of this kind in general. In other words, this game, and it's sequels are pretty much…
I thought this was an awesome game that I got for Christmas once, and I thought I'd enjoy it. It gave me average qualities, tho. This game, like Black Box's previous titles, is extremely rushed. Not only is it very short, but bugs, glitches, and crashes can also happen at any point in the game. You can really tell that Black Box had ambitions for this game but EA yet again couldn't bother to give them more time for…
Rogue Warrior is a first-person shooter game with tactical elements. Its goal begins as an infiltration mission to disrupt hostile missiles and evolves to prevent other potentially dangerous situations. It takes place in 1986. The main character is Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko. Marcinko is a real-life Navy SEAL best known for creating SEAL Team Six in 1980. In the game, Marcinko is sent on a mission into North Korea…
A Thief's End , the last of all the sequels to Drake's Fortune , follows series protagonist Nathan Drake (portrayed by Nolan North), who has retired from fortune hunting several years after the events of Drake's Deception . He reunites with his estranged older brother Sam and long time partner Sully to search for clues to the location of Captain Henry Avery's long-lost treasure to save his brother. The usual superb…
Nathan Drake is back, with his mentor Victor Sullivan, and this time he travels the world in search of the legendary lost city the Iram of the Pillars in the Rub' al Khali desert. The plot draws from the archaeology days of T. E. Lawrence. The story this time really drives home the relationship between Drake and Sully. The flashback near the beginning of the game show us how the two characters met each other. With…
Nathan Drake has returned, and this time, he's through various Asian locales, in search of the Lost city of Shambhala, and the fabled Cintimani Stone before a group on Serbian (Yugoslavian?) mercenaries lead by war criminal Zoran Lazarevic. He is joined once again by Elena Fisher and Victor "Sully" Sullivan, as well as new faces Chloe Frazer, Harry Flynn, Tenzin, and Karl Schafer. Unfortunately, Victor Sullivan…
Treasure hunter, Nathan Drake (ancestor to Sir Francis Drake, supposedly), believes that his alleged ancestor faked his death in order to cover up the discovery of El Dorado. Drake sets out to find El Dorado himself, joined by journalist Elena Fisher, and his mentor/long time friend, Victor "Sully" Sullivan. This game was one of the early system sellers that saved the PlayStation 3 from its bad launch. The game is…
An all-time classic favorite of mine, Super Mario 64 is considered one of the most important and revolutionary milestones in gaming as it introduced many aspects of 3D gaming that are still being used today and showed what 3D gaming is capable of. Analog Controls : This was the first ever 3D game to feature full 360 movement that allowed the player to move in almost any way they can. Controllable Camera : Majority…
Bubsy 3D is remembered as one of three 3D platform games released in 1996 that established the template for the genre, along with Super Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot. Christopher Reese, the lead programmer of the game, actually admitted that the game was a disaster (especially after he saw Super Mario 64) and that he would have preferred to start over from scratch if Accolade had let him. He originally stated that…
Even though the official title is "Superman", it is commonly known as "Superman 64", likely due to Nintendo's marketing strategy of placing '64' in the title of many of its games on the N64. This game is a prime example of unnecessary executive meddling. Titus originally envisioned the game to be open-world and even made a lot of destructible levels, but Warner Bros. was paranoid about Titus taking on the project…
One of PC's icons, Myst is the surrealistic adventure enough to become your own world. Originally released in 1993 via floppy disk, the game has been rereleased and reissued over the years on CD-ROM with higher quality and improvements. The game is supposedly based on Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, hence its name. With hundreds of captured and rendered images, 40 minutes of original music, 66 minutes of Quicktime,…
This is one of those rare instances when a game is so bad it's actually good if not so bad it's terrible. The game felt like it was being rushed for release or it was almost just like an unfinished pre-alpha demo made by college student that somehow got put on store shelves. According to the cover arts and back of the actual boxes, the game's will involve police chases, illicit activities (like illegal cargo), as…
The final game from the Laughing Joking Numbnuts on the final Sega console, and of course, it all ended bitterly. There is no known reason for why Acclaim decided to publish this under the LJN name, but some say it was because they knew they had a terrible game on their hands. This game recreates 1930s racing, using classic model vehicles on famous race tracks around the world. Very interesting concept, but I…
This game is supposed to be built around the license of the Hooters restaurant chain, featuring both real life and computer-generated images and video footage of its iconic waitresses. But it never ever goes on any road trip. There is no real purpose on making a videogame based on a chain of restaurants that is well known for having waitresses wearing revealing outfits as its main attraction. It's possible that the…
Based on the Belgian graphic novel series from the 1980s and 1990s of the same name about an amnesiac who seeks to discover his past, XIII is a sure sight not to be missed. Additionally, this game gives you emphasis that this is a comic book (and not much of a cartoon) with the cutscenes being presented in panels, onomatopoeias pop up when things like explosions happen, and small panels show up to zoom in on…
While the NES version of the classic naval combat game is enjoyable for the most part , the same unfortunately cannot be said for Super Battleship on SNES and Genesis. The front cover of the game shown above looks pretty decent like the prequel. But, despite being made for more powerful hardware than the NES, it is somehow even worse than the prequel in just about every way, shape, & form. Words cannot describe…
Battleship: The Classic Naval Combat Game was released in early September 1993 on the NES, when the SNES had been available for 3 years, which makes the game not very advanced graphically for those times. Unlike the sequel on the SNES , this game is at least playable. Putting aside the fact that the SNES was released nearly 3 years earlier, the graphics and animations are pretty decent by NES standards. In fact both…
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"Wǒ ài Běijīng Tiān'ānmén, Tiān'ānmén shang tàiyáng shēng" " I love Beijing Tiananmen, the sun rises above Tiananmen " Yeah, I had to put that in so I could affect your sanity! Anyways, this is Hong Kong 97, is an unlicensed shoot 'em up game released April 2, 1995 by HappySoft. It was released for the SNES, however, the physical copies of the game are so rare that they are unheard of to the extent that they are…
You are trying to escape a sinking nuclear submarine by collecting the orange and white hatch keys to go in a elevator to go up a floor before you die from drowning in a flooded floor while dodging torpedoes and barriers. Every ten seconds the lowest floor will be flooded. Once you reach the top you win the game. There are two difficulties: the easiest has you escape five floors with 49 seconds and the harder…
This game, based on the film of the same name, was designed by the creator of 1981's Yars' Revenge , Howard Scott Warshaw, who accepted a job of making the entire game in only five and a half weeks. The fact that he was paid $200,000 (equivalent to half a million in modern money) and received an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii, probably had something to do with him accepting this. Because of its large part in the…
Released in 1990, Raid 2020 was an unlicensed action video game from Color Dreams for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The fact that this was made in 1990 and the year 2020 is already past has aged very horribly . This game may cause COVID (no joke), because it has spelling errors, it's very glitchy, you cannot jump high enough to reach certain items, some items are pretty useless, your main weapon is dreadful,…
James Bond fans: “Do you expect me to play this failure of a third-person shooter?” EA: “No, you gamers, I expect all of you to rage at our crappyness!” Yeah, you will never learn to get any better, will you, EA? Just keep on charging us for all that moolah. Your French cousin, Ubisoft, is no better, by the way, in case you were wondering. This game started as a sequel to the film, but unfortunately this idea was…
After playing Top Gun on NES, I found several other games. This is the second one in the franchise. I thought it would be an improvement, but nope. This game feels more like an Ace Combat rip-off due to the poor grasp of the source material. What doesn't help is that it was made by Titus Interactive, a company known for being bad. The graphics are poor, even for the 2001 standards. Seriously, this game looks like it…
The Tom Cruise classic film is a masterpiece, but this game...well, let's have a look. The storyline doesn't seem to be connected to the iconic movie it was based on. Most other games are connected, but is this one of the first to have poor connectivity? The film and this game have aged horribly, since the American F-14 Tomcat is no longer in service with the United States, but still in service with our enemy, Iran.…
I got this game because I love the franchise and I thought this game wouldn't be so bad, but oh god I was wrong. This game as a whole took 12 years to develop, only a little less than Duke Nukem Forever. As a result, it ended up looking like an unfinished product rushed at release riddled with bugs and glitches and a terrible storyline, despite the overly long development time. Coincidently enough, these two games…
The main problem of this production is that the gameplay is extremely boring and outdated, which in 2012 is unacceptable, and could even delight at most in 1995. It suffers the same problem as the Rambo game two years later, as is not a standard third-person shooter for the time of its release, but an on rail shooter, including shooting, vehicle, and stealth missions. As mentioned before, the gameplay concept is…
Well, it's been a while since we've talked about Battleship, the classic naval combat/warfare game. But if you thought the movie was a mess that sunk your battleship, think again. These two crappy Activision tie-in video games, like the film, actually do not exactly play like the board game it's supposed to be based on, and I'm not surprised that Activision (of ALL companies! ugh!) developed these, because most of…
Taking place in the 1980s, years after The New Order and The New Colossus, B.J. Blazkowicz has since gotten married and had two daughters, Jessica and Sophia, who he taught how to defend for themselves. Blazkowicz goes missing, Jessica, Sophia, and their friend Abby investigate his disappearance. They find a hidden room, where they discover that Blazkowicz travelled to France to help in forcing Nazis out of the…
Terror Billy's back. After Deathshead met his demise, Terror Billy hears that America has been overtaken by the Nazi Empire. With interesting characters (both old and new) hard-hitting weapons, an awesome setting, and an experienced storyline, this game is a MASSIVE MAJOR IMPROVEMENT over the previous two games. Everything about this game, from the graphics to the music, from the characters and settings to the…
Before The New Order, there was The Old Blood. While this prequel wasn't that great, at least it sure was interesting. Terror Billy's attempt on overthrowing the Nazis in an alternate WWII sounds very interesting at least. The game can get difficult at points, especially when defeating the beast at the end, but it is otherwise an enjoyable prequel for the most part. You should play this before The New Order. It's…
In an alternate post-WWII Europe (1962) in a world where the Nazis emerged victorious in the Second World War, war veteran William "B.J." Blazkowicz (Terror Billy) thwarts the Nazis and puts an end to their world domination, defeating infamous Nazi scientist William "Deathshead" Strasse in the process. This game's level design and aesthetics accurately depict the time period and alternate plotline and doesn't hold…
One of the first FPS games to take place in WWII (after 1990's Wolfenstein 3D), Medal of Honor ended up inspiring the creation of many other WWII action games in the future, good or bad. With an amazing and memorable orchestral soundtrack (courtesy of Michael Giacchino), good and challenging enemy AI, decent graphics, and interesting and often times hilarious cheat codes and secret multiplayer characters, this game…
Goldeneye 007 is the greatest movie-based game for N64. Since I am a long-time 007 enthusiast, I decided to play this and many others for myself. The story as usual is very remarkable. It stays true to the original source material. The graphics are nifty, as with all other N64 titles. The characters are very well-developed, though it might have been better if I heard their voices than read their silent dialog…
20 months after the NES abomination, Action 52 made it to Sega's Genesis in May 1993. Here's the list of Genesis games: Go Bonkers! Darksyne Dyno Tennis Ooze Star Ball Sidewinder Daytona 15 Puzzle Sketch Star Duel Haunted Hill Alfredo Cheetahmen Skirmish Depth Charge Mind's Eye Alien Attack Billy Bob Sharks Knockout Intruder Echo Freeway Mousetrap Ninja Slalom Dauntless Force One Spidey Appleseed Skater Sunday Drive…
Vince Perri is known for being the boss of Active Enterprises, a game development studio responsible for Action 52 and Cheetahmen II , the sequel to Cheetahmen . History of Active Enterprises began in 1988 when Perri had bought an illegal game compilation with 40 games built-in on the Nintendo Entertainment System from Taiwan for $60 for his son. Impressed by the concept of the cartridge, he began telling his…
WARNING: THIS GAME IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE. My god, what is this? Does this even deserve to be called a game? 'Cause it sure doesn't qualify as one! It's actually more like a DVD/Laser Disk menu or a PowerPoint slideshow/presentation. The gameplay is so non-existent, at one time it could actually be played on internet video. In fact, it is also possible to port this game for Microsoft PowerPoint…
