In 2002 the shooter genre was in a pretty good place. We’d just had a double-whammy of Halo and Metroid Prime, while the PS2’s Medal of Honor: Frontline set the foundations for a new wave of WWII based titles. Over on PC, the influences of 1998’s Half-Life were still being felt. The PlayStation 2 was …
Presumably due to the kids being off school, the Switch eShop is cluttered with shovelware this week. Not just shoddy looking mobile conversions, but a bunch of adventure style games with trashy AI generated art. One of these is even trying to pass itself off as an official Disney tie-in. Madness. There is at least …
A new month is (almost) us. August isn’t looking too shabby for new releases, offering plenty of variety. Next week gives us Konami’s shoot’em up CYGNI: All Guns Blazing, pixel art action platformer Volgarr the Viking II, and the nautical adventure SteamWorld Heist II. Then towards the end of the month, there’s Quantic Dream’s Dustborn, …
2002’s Bounty Hunter is one of the lesser recalled Star Wars titles. It launched at a time when franchise fatigue was starting to settle – Attack of the Clones had several tie-ins – and it didn’t manage to make good on its premise, with the bounty hunting aspect being weak. Aspyr has announced a remaster …