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I love the original System Shock. Coming in 1994, the expectations and boundaries of a first-person perspective hadn’t really been hammered home. As such, there was a lot of experimentation in how to control and interact within a cyberpunk setting which led to some interesting results. I finished it within […]

System Shock – PS5 Review

June 2, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / first person / hacker / immersive sim / nightdive / puzzles / shodan / shooting / space station / system shock by Mike

Collapsed is a post-apocalyptic 2D rogue-lite from Glaive Games. It has you playing as a nameless protagonist (from a choice of four classes) and sees you running and gunning your way through randomly generated levels, facing off against various enemies and bosses and generally dying a lot. The thing with rogue-lites/likes […]

Collapsed – PS4 Review

March 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged collapsed / dead cells / loot / rogue-lite / run and gun / shooting by Richie

Pawarumi is a stylish 3D top-down shooter with a colour-switching mechanic and it comes to us from the recently prolific publishers of shoot ’em ups, EastAsiaSoft. They’ve been finding their niche with a series of short, arcadey shooters with ‘unique’ visual styles and super easy platinums but Pawarumi is set to […]

Pawarumi – PS4 Review

August 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / colour / pawarumi / shooting / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

While Beat Saber continues to enjoy its considerable success Harmonix, the granddaddies of the modern rhythm action genre, have put out Audica which shares a fair bit of a DNA with its lightsaber inspired peer but comes at it from a more hardcore aspect. What does that all mean? Well, […]

Audica – PSVR Review

December 4, 2019 in PSVR tagged audica / harmonix / PSVR / rhythm action / shooting by Richie

I feel like sniping’s one of the coolest things you can do in a shooter. It will always look precise, patient and require great timing. It’s funny how I’ve tended to avoid games that revolve entirely around it. Along comes GI Games’ Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts to break me in […]

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts – PS4 Review

December 2, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged first-person shooter / GI Games / shooting / siberia / sniper ghost warrior contracts / sniping / stealth by Mike

Over the Moon brought us part one of The Fall in 2015 and, after a long, long wait, the second instalment has finally arrived. I’ve been anticipating this after part one delivered a tight, darkly comic exploration of Asimov’s three laws. The Fall Part 2: Unbound certainly looks to build upon […]

The Fall Part 2: Unbound

March 6, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / artificial intelligence / combat / over the moon / platforming / robots / sci fi / shooting / the fall part 2 unbound by Mike

GUNGRAVE VR U.N has just released for PSVR. GUNGRAVE VR has also released (read the review here before continuing with this one) and you can buy both with the GUNGRAVE VR: Loaded Coffin Edition bundle. Think of this as a DLC add-on for GUNGRAVE VR, even though they are two […]

GUNGRAVE VR U.N – PSVR Review

December 9, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / bullet time / first person / gungrave / shooting / side scrolling / third-person / u.n / vr by Gareth

GUNGRAVE VR has just released for PSVR. GUNGRAVE VR U.N has also released (read the review here) and you can buy both with the GUNGRAVE VR: Loaded Coffin Edition bundle. Based on the anime and using the PS2 titles as a framework this is another shooting game for VR, though […]

GUNGRAVE VR – PSVR Review

December 9, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / bullet time / first person / gungrave / shooting / third-person / u.n / vr by Gareth

It might not be new territory but StarBlade’s kickstarted project arrived last year on PC with the perspective of playing the bad guy. Now Playstation 4 owners have the chance to inhabit the mind and lair of a supervillain. Nefarious manages to have some real fun with it and executes […]

Nefarious – PS4 Review

September 16, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d platforming / combat / comedy / nefarious / shooting / starblade / villiany by Mike

Hungarian dev squad Neocore aren’t exactly strangers to the ARPG (action role-playing game) and have already put out a bunch of them as part of their Van Helsing series. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is their latest effort and, for a reviewer like me at least, the good news is that there […]

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr – PS4 Review

August 22, 2018 in PS4 tagged arpg / diablo / looting / shooting / Warhammer by Richie

Small teams with big ambitions is a scenario that can play out any number of ways. Knuist & Perzik are primarily a Dutch duo who originally brought Wuppo to Steam last year, to critical success. Just over a year later, a version arrives for console owners to enjoy. As someone […]

Wuppo – PS4 Review

November 8, 2017 in PS4 / Reviews tagged combat / exploration / Knuist & Perzik / platforming / puzzles / shooting / wuppo by Mike

Sneaky Bears represents Irish VR coders Warducks’ first foray into the world of PSVR and while it’s not the first game to ever use the ‘teddy bears gone bad’ plot device and it’s far from being the first static shooting gallery type game on this platform, there is definitely something […]

Sneaky Bears – PSVR Review

September 7, 2017 in PS4 / PSVR tagged light gun / naughty bear / PSVR / shooting / sneaky bears by Richie