shooter

Shoot ’em up fans are well-catered for on Sony’s store and Iro Hero, a vertically scrolling shooter from Spanish devs Artax Games, is the latest addition to the genre. It sets up the story with some screens that explain that humanity is being exploited by aliens who want to us as […]

Iro Hero – PS4 Review

22 Dec, 2019 in PS4 tagged easy trophies / ikaruga / shoot em up / shooter / space / vertically scrolling by Richie

We’re a little late to the Ghost Recon Breakpoint party but we’re here with our review of Ubisoft’s latest open-world ’em up and we do have a long history with this series that we owe, in some part, to this website even existing (thanks to the peerless Xbox 360 titles […]

Ghost Recon Breakpoint – PS4 Review

10 Nov, 2019 in PS4 tagged breakpoint / co-op / ghost recon / military / shooter / squad / still not GRAW / warfare by Richie

Retro-inspired run and gun shooters seem to hit the PSN schedule pretty regularly and Finnish publishers Ratalaika Games have been responsible for a few of them but here we are again reviewing another one, Deep Space Rush. As ever with Ratalaika this is a cross-buy with two very easy platinum […]

Deep Space Rush – PS4 Review

26 Oct, 2019 in PS4 / Vita tagged 16-bit / deep space rush / retro / run and gun / shooter / traps by Richie

Back in 2002, Jedi Outcast, stood out as being one of the few truly good Star Wars games and with the franchise currently faltering in the hands of EA, we were as pleased as we were surprised to see the game was getting a current-gen remastering. Being one of the […]

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast – PS4 Review

1 Oct, 2019 in PS4 tagged first person / jedi outcast / lighsabers / port / remaster / shooter / star wars / third-person by Richie

Inferno 2 is a twin-stick shooter from Radiangames, a one man developer from Illinois, which has been around on mobile formats for five years now and is the first game in the series to land on consoles. Now that might be a cause for concern for you, because who wants […]

Inferno 2 – PS4 Review

29 Sep, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / inferno 2 / shoot em up / shooter / top down / twin stick by Richie

Dark Souls gets thrown around as a comparison far too much these days. Any game which has the audacity to kill you (in game, obviously) is automatically compared to From Software’s now classic series and as such it’s lost most of its meaning. Annoyingly I now have to compare Remnant: […]

Remnant: From the Ashes – PS4 Review

4 Sep, 2019 in PS4 tagged dark souls / diablo / difficult / Left 4 dead / loot / multiplayer / remnant: from the ashes / shooter / third-person by Gareth

Control comes from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy Entertainment. Those familiar with their games know them for their third person shooters and that they are rarely straight forward. From Max Payne‘s film noir story and use of bullet time to Alan Wake‘s light based gameplay and […]

Control – PS4 Review

26 Aug, 2019 in PS4 tagged alan wake / control / destruction / max payne / metroidvania / powers / remedy / shooter by Gareth

I’m a sucker for a good beat ’em up and Subaka Studio came good with Redeemer‘s release in 2017. Two years on, a comprehensive edition has landed on current consoles and I now have the opportunity to see what I’ve missed. The tale is pretty simple. Our hero Vasily, is […]

Redeemer: Enhanced Edition – PS4 Review

20 Aug, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged brawler / military soldiers / redeemer enhanced edition / russian monks / shooter / subaka studio / top-down beat 'em up by Mike

Most of the classic arcade shoot ’em ups have been ported time and time again to home systems over the last few decades. Certainly all of the classics such as Gradius, R-Type, 1942 and so on but also the elite examples of the genre (usually anything by Cave), they’ve been […]

VASARA Collection – PS4 Review

14 Aug, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / japanese / port / shoot em up / shooter / vasara by Richie

It’s difficult to know just how well PSVR is doing because while there is a very steady stream of indie titles for Sony’s VR headset coming out every week, the big ‘triple A’ titles are few and far between. Owning a PSVR is a bit like being a Switch owner, […]

Blood & Truth – PSVR Review

5 Jun, 2019 in PSVR tagged blood & truth / danny dyer / first person / PSVR / shooter / the london heist by Richie

Killing Floor: Incursion is a PSVR title in Tripwire Interactive’s ‘travel to Europe and kill zombies’ series and is available now with 2016’s Killing Floor 2 as part of a bundle called Killing Floor: Double Feature. We previously reviewed Killing Floor 2 here and we enjoyed the game, especially when […]

Killing Floor: Incursion – PSVR Review

31 May, 2019 in PSVR tagged horror / killing floor / PSVR / shooter / story / waves by Richie

In some ways, Bethesda’s original 2011 shoot ’em up was everything you’d expect from a crossover project between them and Id Software, the original FPS masters who pretty much defined the genre with Wolfenstein and Doom before their Quake games set the template for pretty much every online shooter ever […]

Rage 2 – PS4 Review

26 May, 2019 in PS4 tagged bethesda / fps / id software / open world / post apocalyptic / rage 2 / shooter by Richie