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Category Archives: survival horror
What I want from Dead Rising 2
Updated February 22, 2009 with some new thoughts on weapon durability and the game environment. Now that the existence of Dead Rising 2 has officially been confirmed, the masses can begin speculating on its contents from the few screenshots that … Continue reading
Posted in action, console gaming, reviews, survival horror, xbox 360
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Resident Evil 5: the demo
Anticipating Resident Evil 5 was clearly a mistake. After playing Resident Evil 4 twice and subsequently labeling it “the most overrated game of 2005″, I should have known better than to expect anything different from a sequel banking on its … Continue reading
Posted in 3ps, demos, survival horror, xbox 360
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dead air
When I saw the name of this mission in Left 4 Dead, my thoughts turned to a last stand at an abandoned small town radio station, where the four Survivors must send out a distress call to anyone who would … Continue reading
Posted in fps, left4dead, pc gaming, survival horror
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no one left behind
Last night I played through the “Death Toll” campaign in Left 4 Dead with my game group. Which, to avoid sounding like I have a surplus of friends who play games is really just me and a good friend of … Continue reading
Posted in fps, left4dead, pc gaming, survival horror
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Left 4 Dead impressions
Updated November 14, 2008 Left 4 Dead goes out of its way to create an interactive horror movie. The movie poster introducing the upcoming mission, the four horror movie archetypes forming the group of survivors, a city overrun with Infected … Continue reading
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Resident Evil 4: the most overrated game of 2005
“You are Dead,” Resident Evil 4 tells me as my avatar gets fried for the fourth time by the trap with erratically moving laser beams. It’s this type of hamfisted advice that seems to be the undercurrent of the entire … Continue reading
Posted in action, gamecube, gaming, reviews, survival horror
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they hunger again
I recently learned that Neil Manke, famed designer of the mods USS Darkstar and the They Hunger series of zombie-slaying mods for the original Half Life, is at work on a new mod for Source called They Hunger: Lost Souls. … Continue reading
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leon, where are you going?
I’ve been playing Resident Evil 4 almost exclusively since the weekend. See, I’ve been trying to figure out why these high scores keep popping up. I can’t help but reminisce about the early days of Doom 3, to be honest, … Continue reading
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