Now when I say fall damage I'm not talking about falling into an endless pit. That's been a staple of gaming since the days of Super Mario Bros . While I don't necessarily enjoy that either, I understand that's it's there because most game designers don't want to recreate an entire planet's surface. Sometimes it's easier to put in a dark, foggy pit and leave its deadliness up to your imaginat

To be fair, it wasn’t just Princess Peach reinforcing this worldview. I grew up in an era of generic Disney princess -related storylines, stories which run the gamut of problematic stereotypes involving a prince who rescues the woman from her terrible fate.

The game that took over the flame of Fortnite has maintained relevancy over the past year, improving upon and changing up the status quo that has been established for so long. While there are many things that players can quickly catch onto if they have played other battle royale games , Apex Legend s has many unique gameplay options that will ease the player's experie

How is this accomplished? For starters, it’s important to understand why I think Overwatch's roster is, by and large, not very well thought-out. And before you post this on some forum and find my Twitter and get all pissy because I hurt your feelings about a game you had no hand in creating, I should really repeat that I used to love Overwatch and have fanart and figures from it all over my home. However, Blizzard has proven over the course of several years that they’re firmly stuck in the lane of pandering to anime fans and horny teens. Oh, and the meta's awful. There's also t

Sometimes, the OG still wins thanks to its simpler mechanics. Unlike the various gameplay elements of Warzone , PUBG provides a more simplistic approach to battle royales. Players simply parachute in, collect weapons, and outlast opponents while avoiding the Blue Circle. Despite the rather many intermingling elements, they all work nicely for intense 10 to 30-minute matc

Sunset Overdrive is a game that immediately tries to grab the player's attention, with its eye-catching visuals that are bursting with color and over-the-top action gameplay . Sunset Overdrive was developed by Insomniac Games, a studio that is well known for prioritizing fun over realism , and their 2014 action adventure is no differ

Perhaps PUBG dominates the battle royale genre as it doesn't linger whenever players lose in a match. For instance, if another player kills them, they are simply sent to the Lobby with some credits and they can join another ma

Still, at the time, those other characters were generally believed to be males and referenced as such. So, in an era where little girls rocked T-shirts with block letters that read "Girl Power!" I wanted to be excited to see Princess Peach as a peer to Mario, Luigi and Bowser. But something didn’t seem quite right as I mulled my character options.

Unlike other Battle Royale titles, Warzon e boasts a more tactical approach to this game genre. Thanks to its Call of Duty roots, Warzone also applies signature mechanics such as Scorestreaks, Loadouts, and even unique Contracts within a match. As such, each match isn't just long, but also has a ton of layers to dissect and take into acco

Updated on April 26, 2023, by Ritwik Mitra: The Xbox One offers a wide variety of third-person shooters that are incredibly fun to play. These games offer thrilling gunfights, impressive graphics, and engaging storylines that will keep players hooked for hours on end. With the addition of gameplay enhancements like cooperative multiplayer modes and customizable characters, the Xbox One's library of third-person shooters provides endless hours of entertainment for gamers of all skill lev

Ultimate Edition 's Metascore of 82 may seem fairly harsh, especially considering that the original FPS Game Mods received an aggregated score of 94 . However, players can look at the game's drop in score positively in some ways. The most common criticism was that the game's level design and gameplay mechanics had become dated, which is a testament to how influential Gears of War was between 2006 and 2

However, Apex's cast isn’t just head-and-shoulders above its competitors. Instead, it goes for the jugular of a personal favorite: Overwatch. The comparisons are impossible to not see. Chatter that dumps lore, signature voice lines, a MOBA-lite class system… the list goes on. But the thing is that not only is Apex clearly influenced by Overwatch, it's hellbent on improving on it. Every person on the design team of Apex went above and beyond the call of duty to deliver a game with characters that are, on both a conceptual and aesthetic level, more interesting than anything Blizzard could come up w

But even the outliers have their own problems. Ana, an elderly woman in a sick-ass headscarf, gets a skin that makes her younger and sexier. Mei seems kind of portly, until you put on literally anything other than her default outfit and realize, huh, she’s actually just got a pretty conventionally acceptable hourglass figure and enormous tits. The only one I can give any props to, really, is Zarya. Despite the silly boob armor, she genuinely bucks conventional design trends with it comes to female characters, both in terms of personality and physicality. She’s more in line with the wild diversity present in the male characters, and I really do wish that diversity was represented in the female charact