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Review: Cyberpunk 2077

Review: Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is an undeniably ambitious game. What you might not expect from it is a feeling of nostalgia. Spending my Christmas playing Cyberpunk 2077 took me back to playing Deus Ex invisible War as a kid on Christmas day back in 2003. I fell in love with a genre that was new to me, the FPS RPG. A genre that allowed deep layers of role-playing and level customization and narrative choices, all while keeping the fast-paced action of a first-person shooter. It was then I developed a soft spot for the janky RPG shooter. Deus Ex felt small and somewhat linear at the time. You would just jump from environment to environment. It didn’t feel like a connected world, so it's cool to play something like Cyberpunk that feels like everything I enjoyed about those games blown out into a massive ambitious open-world.

Review: Spider-man: Miles Morales

Review: Spider-man: Miles Morales

Spider-man is a big deal to a lot of people. To someone like myself, a comic book nerd growing up in New York. He was an even bigger deal. The places where the Webhead squared off against Vulture and the Rhino were real, and I would regularly see them. As video games got, more and more impressive Spider-man games were some of the first where I got to see digital representations of my backyard, Couple that with the fantastic gameplay of Insomniac’s first outing with the NYC Wall-crawler, and it was only natural it was one of my favorite games of 2018.

Review: Watch Dogs Legion

Review: Watch Dogs Legion

Watch Dogs 2 was a step in the right direction for a series that initially went over like a wet fart. It traded in the all business plank of wood protagonist know as Aiden Pierce for Marcus Holloway, a young hacker leading hacking collective Deadsec on adventures taking down greedy corporate douchebags and mustache-twirling pharmaceutical and tech companies. Essentially it turned a boring over serious open-world game and turned it into a wacky adventure overflowing with style and charm. It’s strange then that Watch Dogs Legion manages to keep a lot of that fun and style intact while struggling to find a balance between a hack the planet type adventure and a decidedly dark tone.