Recent reviews by zma1013

Great game when you engage with the systems and collaborate with the team via voice chat and listen to your squad leader and commander.

It's fun chopping off orc heads for a few hours but it quickly loses its appeal after you've done this for about the hundreth time. The level design is pretty bland and somehow manages to feel empty in a way even though there are lots of enemies and structures everywhere. There's a cameo by Gollum/Smeigel here with a convincing voice actor that sounds similar to Andy Serkis from the movies, but it's a short cameo. Otherwise the story is a bit uninteresting throughout.

This games shining feature though is the Nemesis system that doesn't immediately show its true worth at the start. It shows you a heirarchy of enemy generals and grunts that you can kill/wound/manipulate in various ways to change the balance of power within their ranks for your benefit and can create unique encounters and villians specific to you and your actions. Enemies will remember you and change up their fighting style when you face them again and some will taunt you if they've killed you before. It took until the second level for this system to really go into full gear and it made the encounters much more interesting.

However once the novelty of the Nemesis wears off, the game becomes boring again and the ending is lackluster. I would only recommend this game if you are a big Lord of the Rings fan, but otherwise it's just kinda average. Hopefully the Nemesis system can find its way into better games in the future.

A great Doom game made for the modern era. It's all about blowing away demons from hell. Fast paced shooter action with an awesome soundtrack and great visuals. Has a good self-aware sense of humor about itself too.

It's kinda like Uncharted, except the characters are uninteresting and the story is bad. Not a good origin story for Lara and the game takes itself way too seriously for what it is. The gameplay is okay but it's mostly standard 3rd person shooting hordes of bad guys with very little exploring or actual tomb raiding. Good graphics, sound, and controls.

A wonderful sandbox tool for creative stupidity.

Similar to Killing Floor 1, but better.

Cool style, fun shooting gameplay, good graphics, too many cutscenes that interrupt that game.

Fun, in its most pure form. The perfect "pickup and play" competitive multiplayer sports game. Like soccer, but with cars.