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Homefront is a modern military first-person shooter developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ (the old one) in March 2011. /// Premise The year is 2027. The world has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and economies have crumbled. Reduced to a mere shadow of the superpower it once was, the United States became the target of a North Korean takeover. American malls, suburbs, and city streets are now battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom. (Side note) THQ 's marketing said the script was written by John Milius (of Apocalypse Now ), a blatant lie. In a report by Gamasutra later corroborated by Kotaku , former Kaos employees confirm Milius never wrote a single word of the script, affirming C.J. Kershner is the true writer, and that Milius's role was nothing more than a consultant. /// Overview Preamble: The COD comparisons. It is inevitable to talk about Homefront without mentioning the Call of Duty games. Regardless of the series current quality,...

[This is a Mini Review, shorter and more direct] Penumbra: Requiem is a first-person, adventure puzzler expansion for Black Plague. Developed by Frictional Games, published by Paradox Interactive, and released in August 2008. Six months after Black Plague's release. /// Premise An expansion pack focused on strict puzzle-focused levels, absent of survival horror mechanics, with bits of lore that further explore some underdeveloped side characters. /// Is Requiem is Episode 3? I gotta get this out of the way. People often confuse Requiem as Penumbra 3, or Episode 3, when it is just an expansion DLC for Black Plague. "Requiem won't be the 'third episode', though. It's less the series conclusion, and more the epilogue. I consider the story to have ended with Black Plague" - Tom Jubert, lead writer of Penumbra series. 2008 interview with RPS. /// Structure Penumbra: Requiem is an abrupt switch from the survival horror genre to a horror-themed puzzler. It consis...

Daikatana is a First Person Shooter with RPG elements, developed by Ion Storm , with John Romero as the primary figure behind the game. Published by Eidos Interactive in April of 2000, three years after the planned 1997 release. This review is for the 1.3 patch version of the game. I also wrote a short article about its development and the uphill battle Ion Storm faced with the title. /// Premise Hiro Miyamoto, must wield the most powerful sword ever made, the Daikatana, and travel through time to find and stop Mishima Kage, a time-traveling warlord who altered time to become a supreme dictator. With the help of his two newfound allies, Superfly Johnson and Mikiko Ebihara. /// Structure The game's split into four separate episodes, consisting of around six maps each, culminating in a boss encounter. These are set in different ''eras'' with unique aesthetics, set of weapons, and enemies. Inconsistency is the term that better describes this game's quality. It...

Dota: Underlords is a free-to-play game in the genre of Auto Battler, developed and published by Valve in an early beta stage in June 2019 running on Source 2. Underlords saw its official release on February 25, 2020, for Android, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. Making it the first Valve mobile game and the first mobile game running on Source 2. This review will focus on the lead up to the game's failure. How do I even talk about Underlords ? I have played since its invite-only beta stage, while the genre was a growing fad at the time, the same way Valve just put this game out of nowhere in less than a year it faded into obscurity, even now (the officially dead) Artifact gets a larger public recognition than Underlords . /// The Genre For those who can't even remember what Auto Chess even is (and I don't blame you) it started as a custom game mode for Dota 2 , players would get ''pieces'' that are correspondent to a Dota 2 character, each ha...