Posts By Eric Van Allen
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6.1KReviewsCoup de grace: Hitman: The Complete First Season review
Hitman is all about the process. It’s a defined line from point A to B: receive target, kill target. Through many years...
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5.0KReviewsNo Wang home: Shadow Warrior 2 review
Shadow Warrior 2 is stuck between two points in time. In one, it’s the early days of Duke Nukem and Serious Sam,...
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5.8KReviewsBuilt to last — HyperX Cloud Revolver review
My old headset has been sitting on the shelf for months. It’s not that the Cloud Revolver, HyperX’s new PC headset, is...
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4.7KReviewsImpersonating an officer: This Is The Police review
Two cops have died at the scene. That’s all I get: a notification that the officers I dispatched not only failed to...
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3.9KReviewsDon’t read more: Inside review
Silence is one of the most effective tools in a composer’s arsenal. It’s contrasting, empty, vacuumous — in the right hands, silence...
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4.7KPreviewsOnce more, for the Emperor: Impressions of Dawn of War 3’s take on Warhammer 40k
It’s been twelve years since the first Dawn of War rampaged onto PC, bringing the Warhammer 40k tabletop fantasy game to life in...
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2.4KPreviewsMonster among men: A preview of the chilling Vampyr
You need to feed. That’s how the demo of Vampyr started, in our time at E3. Then again, that might be a...
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2.4KPreviewsDesert sport odyssey: Hands-on with Supergiant Games’ Pyre
The last thing I would have expected from Supergiant Games was an action-sports game. Makers of Bastion and Transistor, their new title...
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2.3KPreviewsBunny hop: Hands-on with Strafe’s roguish take on old-school Quake
My demo for STRAFE took place in a sun-beaten parking lot on day three of E3 (well, show floor day three, anyways)....
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5.4KReviewsDare to dream in anime — Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE review
It’s hard to imagine a game like Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE existing even just a few years ago. Born of two franchises,...
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9.2KReviewsMemento mori: Zero Time Dilemma review
It’s rare to see a game take as many chances in its concluding chapters like Zero Time Dilemma does. For a game...
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4.4KFeaturesGaming Trend’s Best in Show Awards – E3 2016
The sun has risen and set on the show in Los Angeles, and while we gradually roll out our coverage and recuperate...
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3.6KPreviewsCan’t read my Gwent face: Hands-on with Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent is bigger than it has any reason to be. It was that way in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where a...
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3.7KPreviewsInto the wild: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild preview
Most Zelda games open with a colorful burst of exposition and character. A humble beginning, an unexpected hero, and a gaudy green...
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4.5KReviewsYou can (not) absorb: Kirby: Planet Robobot review
Many of Kirby’s recent outings have been permutations on a formula, a series of mash-ups and experiments succeeding or failing at random....
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3.7KReviewsLoving the Other: Hitman Episode 3 review
Note: The wonderful Blake Hester is on a short hiatus, so in his absence, I’ll be stepping in to cover the Hitman...
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4.9KReviewsA tale worth telling twice: Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir review
Not many games get a second chance at life like Odin Sphere. A PlayStation 2 role-playing game, released in the twilight years...
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6.0KReviewsThe world needs more heroes: Overwatch review
Our world is worth fighting for. – Mei Every match of Overwatch begins the same way. An opening line from a character,...
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4.3KReviewsWar pigs: Total War: Warhammer review
Neverending war. The perennial military complex, gears turning to amass conflict after conflict, as generals loom over a table dotted with markings...
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3.8KReviewsGuns blazing: Hover Junkers review
The west is a lawless place. Even in the steampunk Western Hover Junkers, your only friend and companion is the gun strapped...
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2.8KReviewsSeeing is believing: HTC Vive review
It’s hard to quantify and define the experience of virtual reality to an outside party. Words like “presence” and “immersion” come to...
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2.6KFeaturesThe 8 best experiences available on the HTC Vive
We’re still in the infantile stages of modern virtual reality, where developers are wrapping their heads around the tech and what it...
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5.4KReviewsIntergalactic manifest destiny: Stellaris review
One of humanity’s greatest aspirations lies in space exploration. The feeling of reaching out beyond our terrestrial shackles and seizing the vast,...
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8.9KReviewsMixing the melting pot: Battleborn review
Since first glance, Battleborn has had an identity crisis. A new shooter from the quintessential “gun company,” Gearbox Software has struggled against...
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4.6KReviewsTres gigantes: Ray Gigant review
Dungeon crawlers have always been a difficult genre for me to get into. I was never the type to break out a...
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9.5KReviewsA brilliant odyssey of time: Stories: The Path of Destinies review
They say the adventure is more about the journey than the destination. In Stories: The Path of Destinies, you will have to...
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3.4KReviewsOvercoming the odds — Trillion: God of Destruction review
The idea of holding out against an unstoppable force, standing against overwhelming odds and just barely being able to survive is admirable,...
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3.9KReviewsPush it to the limit — Trackmania Turbo review
Repetition and perfection are the two words I would use to describe the loop of Trackmania Turbo’s lightning-paced gameplay. In most racing...
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5.3KInterviewsDifferent Strokes: Creating the Art and Aesthetic of Battleborn
From challenge comes opportunity. And, at least in games, challenge can also create risk. Gearbox Software might be known for first-person shooters,...
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2.9KReviewsOut of chaos comes order — The Division review
Loot, shoot, repeat; that’s the mantra of Ubisoft’s newest open-world game The Division. Set amidst the broken remains of Manhattan after a...
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3.8KReviewsWhen I move, you move — Superhot review
It’s exciting to see a game challenge ideas like Superhot does. Taking the constraints of an action-packed, adrenaline-pumping first-person shooter and slowing...
