Gnoll's Game Reviews

Superhot Review Virtual Reality is an incredible way to play video games. Even though VR is still relatively new to the gaming world there are plenty of fantastic games out there that will show you what virtual reality is all about. The game Superhot does exactly that. Superhot originally started as an entry in the 2013 7 day FPS challenge, and sense has become an official game. After Superhot’s success the game became one of the first titles on Playstation VR. Gameplay Superhot throws you into a bunch of different levels with one main concept, time only moves when you move. Superhot sends waves of red enemies who try to stab, shoot, or punch you to death. With the mechanics in Superhot VR you truly feel like the star of an action movie. The time only moves when you move aspect makes for great moments whether it is slicing a bullet in half with a knife, or throwing a ninja star through people’s faces you really feel like a boss.  Superhot VR is more than a game it also fee...

God of War Review The newest God of War game is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and released on April 20th of 2018. God of War is the eighth installment in the God of War series, and is the sequel to God of War III from 2010. In the past God of War games the setting takes place in Greece and are based on Greek mythology. However, the latest installment is based on Norse mythology set in ancient Norway in Midgard. Kratos and Atreus’s story starts with them beginning their journey to the highest peak of all nine realms. Facing many great challenges, obstacles, and stress growing between the father and son God of War received a lot of acclamation and many of awards for its incredible world design, narrative, music, combat system, characters, and graphics. This new God of War is exactly that, a “new” God of War. Along with a change in the setting we also see a different side of our main character Kratos. We are...

Apex Legends Review Battle royal games have been trending like crazy from Players Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) to Fortnite and now we have Apex Legends. Battle royal has taken the world by storm, and it seems like everyone is trying to cash out by jumping on to the battle royal train. A new title to the battleground scene is Apex Legends. Apex Legends was developed by Respawn Entertainment, published by Electronic Arts (EA), and released in february of 2019. After only a week of Apex Legends being available for download the game has over 25 million individual players. Could this be the game that finally kills Fortnite? Apex Legends is a free-to-play, first person, hero based, team focused battle royal shooter game. Apex Legends takes place in the Titanfall world taking place 30 years after Titanfall 2. You can find many of your favorite weapons from Titanfall 2 in Apex Legends. But do not worry this will not replace Titanfall 3.Apex Legends may just be another battle royal bu...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the fourth game in The Super Smash series. Smash Ultimate was developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Nintendo. Smash Ultimate was officially released worldwide on December 7, 2018. Smash Ultimate brings a lot to the table, bringing every single character from previous Smash bros. titles and adding even more, having more than 70 playable characters, over 100 different stages and well over 1000 spirits to assist you in Smash Ultimate’s campaign World of Light . Campaign Super Smash bros. Ultimate has a campaign mode just like its predecessors. In Smash Ultimate you travel across the world saving and unlocking all of the characters. Smash Ultimate introduces new mechanics and ideas into their campaign called spirits. Along the way you unlock spirits, that are characters or items, from games that characters are from or other nintendo games, that provide you advantages throughout the levels of the campaign. I find that the fights in the campaig...

Terraria Review Terraria was developed by Relogic and published by 505 games. Terraria was initially released on PC in May, 2011. Since the release and success of Terraria on PC the game was also released on other consoles such as, xbox 360, xbox one, ps3, and ps4. Terraria is an action-adventure 2D sandbox side scroller, and for how primitive the concept sounds some aspects of the gameplay are actually very complicated compared to other side scrollers in the same genre. The game is often compared to Minecraft because of the similarities in mining and killing monsters. When first starting the game you are going to feel like you have no idea what to do which is most players initial reactions to the game if they haven’t seen it before. You will likely look up tutorials to try to figure out what you need to do progress. It is almost guaranteed that you will look up a tutorial on the game before beating it. After knowing how to play the game and what you need to do the game is a bla...