• bhlaab wrote a review of Chasm: The Rift.
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    Fake Quake

    Chasm is a 1997 FPS made by the Ukrainian Action Forms Ltd, who would later make Vivisector and the better-known-but-still-obscure Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason. It's heavily inspired by the origina...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of GoldenEye 007.
    Never Say Never Again

    This is not a remake of Rare's Nintendo 64 game. It's also not an attempt to go back and make a game that's more faithful to the film than the old hardware could have managed. If anything it's much le...

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  • bhlaab wrote a review of GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.
    On Her Majesty's Secret Serviceable At Best

    When you think of James Bond as a video game franchise what comes to mind? One-liners? Crazy gadgets? Espionage? Some sort of sexy lady sidekick? Throw 'em all out the fuckin window because this isn't...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of 007: Agent Under Fire.
    For Your GAMING ENJOYMENT Only

    I accidentally played this after Nightfire, having come to believe that Nightfire came out first. That I was mistaken was immediately obvious upon booting it up, since Agent Under Fire is even more ol...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of Red Faction II.
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    Short But Sloppy

    Red Faction 2 is kind of like if Halo had a more Quake-like focus on explosives. You (more or less) start the game with a grenade launcher that can hold 30 rounds, and you can hold 30 hand grenades on...

  • bhlaab created a list Games I Played 2019.
  • bhlaab wrote a review of Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight.
    Not Perfect, But Good Enough

    This is a well put together indie Metroidvania, although it is shockingly short for the genre. The map is quite small; I'd estimate it to be about 1/3 of the size of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of Sonic Forces.
    Quest of The Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

    The game is a mix of 3D and 2D side-scroller platforming. Two of the playable characters, Modern Sonic and The Avatar, will switch between the two based on context. Classic Sonic, the third playable c...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child.
    Detroit Bad Game City

    This game should be called Todd Macfarlane's Spider Circus! I'm not a KISS head by any means but I'd actually prefer that to a game full of Todd MacFarlane's twisted clowns! There are a few times wher...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of The Evil Within 2.
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    A great open world survival horror game

    The Evil Within 2 would be a great open world survival horror game if it was actually an open world survival horror game. That's what they sold it as, and I bought it a year after release thinking tha...

  • bhlaab wrote a review of Tales of Berseria (Steam).
    Great Cast, Great Story, Good Game

    Tales of Berseria tells a surprisingly nuanced, funny, and affecting story with passable action-based combat filling in the gaps.Its main strength is how it rides the line between following JRPG trope...

  • bhlaab rated positively bhlaab 's list, Sailor Scouts in Order of Prettiness .
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  • bhlaab rated Dan_Rob_Campbell's review for iVideo Review: Poi, as not helpful.
  • bhlaab wrote a review of Poi.
    Good for Kids, Okay for Adults

    Poi is a 3D platformer in the style of Super Mario 64. It's a Unity engine game where the end credits are about 30 seconds long and begins with "Created By Ben & Paul" before listing off a handfu...

  • bhlaab created a list Games I Played in 2018.