Remember Avatar? Billion dollar movie? Blue aliens? Sigourney Weaver? Outriders is that, but you’re the militaristic villains. Unknowingly so, but the villains regardless. Imagine jumping into a war after an extended coma, siding with those you first meet, then slaughtering 5,000+ indigenous based on that alone. Not even John Wayne and John Ford were so… Continue reading Outriders (Xbox Series X)
Five years after the Avengers were forcibly disbanded, a government-supported, rogue military group (AIM) begins rounding up “inhumans,” putting them in cages, and biased network news cheers them on. To get these obvious parables now leaves one to wonder what future Trumpian parables hold. Captain America draws a direct line to AIM and the Nazis.… Continue reading Marvel’s Avengers (PS4)
Hero Rico Rodriguez drops into Just Cause’s fourth South American country, and the fourth run by a cruel dictatorship. Going by Just Cause’s suggestion, no one lives free in the southern end of the continent. Those who do live in ramshackle towns, seemingly held together only by their poverty. For Rico then, it’s an effort… Continue reading Just Cause 4 (PS4)
There’s a moment late in Shadow of the Tomb Raider where Lara Croft rises out of the water, silhouetted by flames, a knife brandished at her side. She charges at a faceless mercenary wearing terror on his face before Lara blankly stares and slices the man to death. It’s a scene pulled from any number… Continue reading Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4)
Gutless and limp, the cyberpunk world of Deus Ex implodes while attempting to leverage modern social politics. Overcooked conspiracy theories and unintentionally hilarious ties to Illuminati paranoia aside, what’s left uncomfortably connects to real world terrorist attacks and over-militarized police presence. Interpol counter-terrorism agent Adam Jensen, unknowingly left behind from the Matrix sequels, is a… Continue reading Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4)
Max Caufield can bend and twist space time courtesy of an unexplained superpower, but cannot undue the social circumstances which have fraught high school kids of the 2010s. Life Is Strange does everything well. But its content, its center, reflects that which Caufield endures. Life Is Strange does not understand kids – it understands their… Continue reading Life is Strange (PS4)
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