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Sniper Elite V2 Remastered Review

Gary Smith

Sniper Elite V2 first released way back in May 2012 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Two more mainline additions and seven years later, Sniper Elite V2 has been remastered for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Is the trip back to 1945 Berlin and the final days of World War II worth it? The short answer is, it depends. If you never played Sniper Elite V2, then the Remastered is worth picking up if you enjoy the series. If you have played V2 on one of its original platforms, then you can probably…

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Anthem BioWare game
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Anthem Review

Gary Smith

It's hard to believe it's only been a month since BioWare and EA released the heavily hyped Anthem on PC, Xbox One and PS4. It's a game that had a lot of fanfare behind it and was poised to be the next big thing from BioWare. It's an open-world looter shooter stepping in to compete against the likes of Destiny, The Division 2, and Warframe. It was to be the "cinematic" looter shooter with a story. Fast paced gameplay, unique builds that would matter, and loot you'd want to chase... these were…

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Just Cause featured
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Just Cause Review

Gary Smith

Hello everyone and welcome back to yet another way past due edition of The Backlog. As usual, the real world continues to get in the way of things I'd rather be doing, but such is life for most of us. So we're here with the 29th installment of The Backlog, and we're going to be true to the name here. We're going to go back to a game that came out over nine years ago, Just Cause. Being that this game is more on the ancient side, gaming wise that is, we are going to keep things shorter than…

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Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider

Eric W.2 Comments

The Tomb Raider reboot of 2013 was my dark horse game of the year, as it was for many other people. It was impressive and it struck a nice balance on gameplay and challenges that drew in many new fans to the series, including myself. I had always respected this series and I had tried out several of the earlier games, but the twitch gameplay and some other aspects were extremely frustrating. Now comes the highly anticipated sequel to the reboot and I can guarantee you this is a game that people…

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Just Cause 3
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Just Cause 3 Review

Eric W.

It's all about getting lost and getting crazy in an open world sandbox and being encouraged and rewarded to do it as insanely as you possibly can. How can you not like that?

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Sunset Overdrive
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Sunset Overdrive Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

This is a great looking game. Obviously it is a cartoonish style as opposed to more life like games like Watch_Dogs, The Last of Us and countless others, but it is very well done and very colorful. All the scenery is fantastic, from the buildings to the abandoned cars in the streets. I really like the design and the coloring of the OD's, and it seems like the bigger and uglier an OD is, the better the character was drawn. Again, just a great looking game. The sound effects and dialogue for…

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Grand Theft Auto V
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Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Rockstar wowed the majority of us a year ago when they released Grand Theft Auto V on PS3 and Xbox 360. Even on old hardware, it was an excellent looking game that still looks better than some games released on the new systems. Now that Rockstar has released the game for PS4 and Xbox One, it looks even better. For starters, there's increased detail for everything. Textures are better, overall image quality is greatly improved thanks to anti-aliasing. There's greater draw distance, and even…

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Sniper Elite 3
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Sniper Elite 3 Review

Eric W.3 Comments

This series is a welcome breath of fresh air against run and gun shooting and you can see from my previous reviews that I'm overall enthusiastic about this series despite some quibbles and annoyances which, unfortunately, remain for this new game. Being a sequel this means I have to be a little less forgiving this time around since there weren't enough fundamental improvements that needed to happen.

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Watch_Dogs
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Watch_Dogs Review

Eric W.2 Comments

Ever since E3 2012, Watch Dogs has been one of the most hyped and anticipated titles on any system and for good reason. The now near legendary and certainly controversial video that Ubisoft showed at the E3 was a jaw dropping, gorgeous looking game that teased a slick cyberhack Grand Theft Auto variant with everything “cranked to 11.” To be fair, nothing was going to live up to the hype and imagination gamers used as they waited for the release and any tidbit of news or more footage was eagerly…

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InFamous Second Son
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Infamous: Second Son Review

THE MONKEY2 Comments

The second of the two major Next-Gen exclusives arriving this month has arrived in the form of Infamous: Second Son.  This time it is Sony's turn to showcase what they have in store for its dedicated fan base.  In Second Son you take control of Delsin Rowe who finds himself the recipient of a set of Conduit powers after a transport carrying three alleged "Bio-Terrorists" crashes in front of him.  The gamer controls Delsin as he struggles to gain control of his new found powers and sets out to…

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Nazi Zombie Army
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Sniper Elite – Nazi Zombie Army 1 and 2 Review

Eric W.2 Comments

If you look over my review of the original game these spins offs came from you can see that I thought very highly of it and even declared it my dark horse game of the year. Since that time the game has found itself the beneficiary of robust support for patches, additional features, and now two quality standalone DLCs. The support has been downright astonishing and has set an example to the rest of the gaming world as far as I'm concerned. Much of what I wrote applies to the Zombie Army spinoffs…

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Grand Theft Auto V
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Grand Theft Auto V Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

This has proven a hard review to even begin. Not because I don’t have anything to say about Grand Theft Auto V, as a matter of fact I could say plenty about the game, but rather because I haven’t wanted to stop playing it. We’ve seen some truly amazing games this year: BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us standing out for most folks (myself included), and I’d personally add Saints Row and LEGO City: Undercover to the list as well while others would include Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell, and Rayman…

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Splinter Cell Blacklist
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist Review

Eric W.1 Comment

Splinter Cell has finally “come back.” That's my short teaser for the theme of this review and many others reviews out there for that matter. This game brings the best aspects of Splinter Cell Conviction and previous pre Double Agent Splinter Cell games and merges those aspects together in a new and extremely satisfying whole. What Blacklist does it does very well. It feels like Splinter Cell taken to the next level in a lot of ways and I'm pleased enough with it that it will very likely be…

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Saints Row 4
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Saints Row IV Review

Gary Smith7 Comments

My favorite gaming genre is third person shooter set in an open world. This generation has produced many of these types of games, and a lot of them have been really great. Riding horses and mowing down outlaws in Red Dead Redemption was awesome; skydiving and blowing stuff up in Just Cause 2 was great; visiting historically accurate settings like Rome and colonial America in the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been wonderful as well. Then there has been the Saints Row franchise, which has seen…

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The Last of Us
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The Last of Us Review

Gary Smith13 Comments

I’ve gone back and forth trying to decide how I wanted to handle this review. The Last of Us released this past Friday, and of course, it was a hugely anticipated PS3 exclusive. Reviews from the larger Metacritic outlets went up weeks ago, and so by now people who may have been on the fence before will have seen dozens and dozens of all positive reviews and have likely purchased the game. So with that said, I’m going to do something different with this review; I’m going to talk spoilers. Don’t…

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Remember Me
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Remember Me Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Today we're going to be taking a look at Remember Me, a third-person action-adventure offering from the folks at Dontnod Entertainment and Capcom. When I first heard about this game, I was intrigued, but I didn't get my expectations very high. Perhaps that worked to my advantage, but regardless, this was a quality offering and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game, and I look forward to getting back to it down the line somewhere. So with that said, let's get down to some specifics. Anyone…

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Tomb Raider
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Tomb Raider Review

Eric W.3 Comments

In many years I could sign off on this game as "Game Of The Year" outright. It's that good. In a year like 2013 is shaping up to be and the fact that this game came out early enough in it, the jury is still out. I can guarantee that by the end of the year this game will be still on many people's GOTY shortlists, including mine. That's probably enough of a review right there for a lot of people but wait, as they say, there's more! I'm going to explain how and why I think so highly of this game…

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Dead Space 3 Review

Eric W.

The third and final installment in the Dead Space game series, or at least as far as Isaac Clarke's story arc goes, is upon us and it doesn't disappoint. I'll say upfront: If you're a fan of this series you'll be very happy with this game and if you never cared about the series there's nothing here for you. For PC gamers I'm going to post arguably the most important thing in this review upfront: The FOV tweak which is absolutely a must with this game. Navigate your way to…

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Hitman Absolution Review

Eric W.2 Comments

I'm a long time Hitman fanboy. I view Blood Money as the apex of the series and that hasn't changed with the advent of this game. Just to get that out of the way. At least once a year I have to fire up at least Blood Money for a jaunt and often times Contracts and Silent Assassin as well. The games are permanent residents on my hard drive. It's been a long six year wait for myself and a lot of other people, but a new Hitman game is finally upon us. I'm really not sure why it took IO this long to…

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Sleeping Dogs
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Sleeping Dogs Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

  Hello all and welcome back to another installment of The Backlog. You know, when I first started these, I was looking at some blasts, or in some cases some flops, from the past. Here lately, I've been showcasing the type of games that have caused my wall of shame to grow unchecked for several years. Enough of the bullshitting, time to get down to business. Sleeping Dogs had been in the works for a couple years, first as an original title, then being proclaimed as a return to the True…

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