Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Roberta Williams’ Phantasmagoria walked a delicate line between camp and hardcore horror. Personally, I didn’t feel it pulled this trick off terribly well. While the carnival atmosphere allowed for some truly gruesome Saw-like kills, the plot lacked serious tension and quickly fell into stale haunted house/possessed lover routines. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is a [...]
No Comments »FIFA 2000
Sometimes, I can be pretty stupid. When it came time to submit yet another JGR review, I racked my brain to find out what I’d review. Most of the games I played were too crappy for me to even bother; the rest were either too recent or ran on platforms such as the Game Boy, [...]
No Comments »Terminator: Rampage
BethSoft’s fourth Terminator game tries to beat Wolfenstein at its own game.
No Comments »Heretic
Well, this ought to be an interesting matchup. I hate fantasy, and I love Doom. What happens when you mash them together? Heretic was Raven Software’s fourth game. It cemented a partnership with iD Software that began back with Shadowcaster – Raven’s first-person RPG based on a heavily-modified Wolf3D engine. A similar situation happened here, [...]
No Comments »I-War
In the future, a vast computer network connects the globe and administers civilization’s mundane daily functions. Over time, this network begins to break down and clog with viruses. Now on the verge of catastrophic collapse, a lone pilot must drive a cyber-tank into the virtual reality of the network, clear out the attacking programs, collect [...]
No Comments »Quake
It’s 1996, and the hype machine is in full force. id’s next game is on the horizon. John Carmack has written a true 3D engine that runs just as fast as Doom with no extra hardware required. Gaming rags publish astounding in-game shots of spooky 3D castles and true rooms over rooms. The public-beta-of-sorts Qtest1 [...]
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