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There comes a time in every gacha game where, for whatever reason, the developer decides adding a rhythm game is a good idea. It’s not. Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our…
Today, a teaser trailer called “False Sense Of Security” was posted by the Alien: Isolation YouTube account. An industrial door unlocks and opens into a gloomy, rainy cityscape, and the scene cuts to one of Isolation’s emergency phone save points. It’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the first game scared the bejeezus…
Zenless Zone Zero, a game I primarily associate with the neologism “gooner 9/11,” is finally en route to PC’s biggest digital storefront. This game produced a headline on this very website containing the phrases “divine domain,” “jiggle physics,” and “cat balls” all one right after the other. It got a glamorous 55% from reviewer Kerry…
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena review – PC Gamer issue #200 (UK, May 2009) Around about the time that I was stamping three guards to death, I realised that I was the monster in Riddick. Is it any wonder that the fourth guard who blundered into that scenario, who saw his colleagues…
Never in my life have I felt like the screenshots I take while playing games are worth printing out and displaying on the wall. They’re barely good enough to stick under a magnet on the fridge, mostly because they’re things like map locations or places I promise myself I’ll come back to and never do….
Last Flag, the new multiplayer shooter from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds, released onto Steam earlier this month. While it’s hard to glean precisely from the outside, the response to it seems to have been muted, despite developer Night Street games doing everything they could to raise its profile. The studio…
The naked guy happily reaching out towards what I promise is a giraffe adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene, don’t you think? A quirky touch of class, maybe? A dramatic representation of humanity’s desire to strive for the unknown? Perhaps I’m getting a little too deep in my inkwell after being…
For much of its early access development, Shapez 2 was an interesting alternative to the tentpole automation sims like Factorio and Satisfactory. A more streamlined affair that dispensed with many of the supplementary systems seen in those aforementioned games, Shapez 2 adopted a more puzzle-centric approach to assembly-line construction. That’s still very much the case….
Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 offered an intriguing story when it finally released last year, but mechanically The Chinese Room’s vampire RPG felt a little anaemic compared to the wild kitchen-sink design of Troika’s original. Its combat, for example, revolved almost entirely around vampire-based fisticuffs, with guns and melee weapons reduced to disposable items wielded through…
Enter the Gungeon celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this month. Having sold over 14 million copies in its lifetime, Enter the Gungeon was one of the early architects of the modern action roguelike, alongside games like Nuclear Throne, forging the path for the genre’s modern phenomena like Hades, as well as variants of it such…